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		<title>Short Trip to Sacto: Obesity Testimony</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Tomorrow I&#8217;m testifying at a Legislative Informational Hearing on Diabetes and Obesity at the California State Capitol in Sacramento on what works in practice.
It&#8217;s not unfamiliar, but still a challenge. I did testify before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Aging about the care near the end of life in the 1990s.
Now the time seems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vending Machines in Kids&#8217; Hospitals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The most visible food in the hospital is in vending machines. And it isn&#8217;t pretty: see the unedited photo at right.
In the U.S., we have 25% more vending machines in each children&#8217;s hospital than does Canada. In fact, U.S. kids&#8217; hospitals average 9.3 vending machines each.
What&#8217;s in hospital vending machines? 99 out of 101 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prevention Will Be Cheap. But Fun?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ For 43 million Americans on September 23 and probably the rest of the  U.S sometime in 2011, preventive services just got cheaper.
No co-pays, no deductibles, no direct charges for stuff that works.
Now, we must figure out how to make it fun, sexy and easy. For kids  and adults.  But doctors getting paid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Are What You Eat Out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ I was having lunch out with a friend last month, and we couldn&#8217;t decide what to order.
Everything in the deli case looked good, from the lasagna squares to the sauteed kale.  But not until we tasted the food and read the labels did we know what was in it: not just calories, but the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chefs Saving Lives: Childhood Obesity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ * Over the past three decades, childhood obesity rates in America have tripled.
* Today, nearly one in three children in America are overweight or obese.
* One third of all children born in 2000 or later will suffer from diabetes at some point in their lives; many others will face chronic obesity-related health problems like [...]]]></description>
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