Obesity in Young Is Seen as Falling in Several Cities, By Sabrina Tavernise, December 10, 2012, New York Times: “After decades of rising childhood obesity rates, several American cities are reporting their first declines. The trend has emerged in big cities like New York and Los Angeles, as well as smaller places like Anchorage, Alaska, and Kearney, Neb. The state of Mississippi has also registered a drop, but only among white students. ‘It’s been nothing but bad news for 30 years, so the fact that we have any good news is a big story,’ said Dr. Thomas Farley, the health commissioner in New York City, which reported a 5.5 percent decline in the number of obese schoolchildren from 2007 to 2011…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty