Heavy Questions. Elizabeth Weil.
by Weil, Elizabeth; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 28Family. Publisher: New York Times Magazine, 2005ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Hispanic American children | Obesity in children | Overweight children | Parent and child | School children -- Food | TexasDDC classification: 050 Summary: "In Starr County, Tex.--which has one of the highest rates of obesity in the nation--nearly half the kids in elementary school are overweight. Is it because they are poor? Is it genetic? Or is something else going on?" (NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE) The author considers the reasons behind the childhood obesity problem in Starr County and discusses the difficulties that families, schools and healthcare workers face in dealing with it.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2006.
Originally Published: Heavy Questions, Jan. 2, 2005; pp. 34-39.
"In Starr County, Tex.--which has one of the highest rates of obesity in the nation--nearly half the kids in elementary school are overweight. Is it because they are poor? Is it genetic? Or is something else going on?" (NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE) The author considers the reasons behind the childhood obesity problem in Starr County and discusses the difficulties that families, schools and healthcare workers face in dealing with it.
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