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News: Active lifestyle helps extend life
News: Losing that fat will improve your health
Tips&Stories: St. Joseph cyclist adds miles and subtracts pounds
Tips&Stories: Epidemic of youth obesity . . .
Tips&Stories: Why is little Johnny obese?
Tips&Stories: Insurers, employers, and government considering plans to encourage fitness
Tips&Stories: Pacing, fidgeting lead to weight loss; lower risk of Type II diabetes
Tips&Stories: Percentage of overweight adults doubled in the past 10 years
Tips&Stories: St. Louis University study links poor community environment and obesity
News: Obesity costs US $80 billion annually
News: Shawnee, KS, becomes first KC metro-area city to receive the LAB's "Bicycle-Friendly City" award
News: Why walk/bike your kid to school?
News: Columbia's mayor kicks off week of biking & walking
News: South Carolina governor bikes across state
News: May is Bike Month!
News: News: How Florida got a "Share the Road" license plate
News: Walk to Work Day April 2nd
News: High blood pressure rising in Missouri
News: St. Louis Suburban Journal article encourages people to ride like Lance
News: Walkable St. Louis
News: KCStar has major article on creation of walkable, bikeable communities
News: In obesity, Missouri ranks 21st among states
News: MoBikeFed Editorial: Amendment 3 will affect Missouri's transportation future
News: Bike/Walk to School Day in the KCStar
News: Study blames inactivity, not diet, for alarming increase in childhood obesity
News: Missouri spends $1.6 billion a year on obesity
News: U.S. teens fatter than those in any other industrialized country
News: Poor urban design discourages walking & biking, encourages heavier citizens in KC
Tips&Stories: Health advocates plan campaign against obesity epidemic
News: Missouri ranks near bottom in physical activity for seniors
News: THE VOTE: Amendment 3 passes by an overwhelming margin
News: Fat kids cost schools
News: Amendment 3 will affect Missouri's transportation future
News: Columbia, MO, ponders new bike/ped friendlier street standards
News: America's obesity rate growing, at crisis point
News: Sec. of Health says, "We need to stem the rising epidemic of obesity"
News: TEA-21 renewal moves forward in U.S. House
News: JOIN NATIONAL WALK TO WORK DAY -- APRIL 2ND
Newsletter: Creating Active Environments for Active Lifestyles
Tips&Stories: Obesity makes America's kids unhealthiest generation in decades
Tips&Stories: Rate of high blood pressure in US kids rises 4.5 times (!!!)
Tips&Stories: Surgeon General bemoans lack of physical activity
Tips&Stories: Communities urged to take action to increase physical activity
Newsletter: Report from the National Bike Summit--Washington, D.C.
Tips&Stories: Missouri children fatter than national average
Tips&Stories: Even twice weekly exercise benefits health
Tips&Stories: Arkansas governor loses pounds, saves money cycling: Obesity costs states about as much as tobacco-related diseases
Tips&Stories: Governor Holden's Fitness Challenge
Tips&Stories: Lack of exercise leading health problem in U.S.
Tips&Stories: Childhood obesity has tripled since 1963
Tips&Stories: Obesity means today's teens will have shorter lives than parents
Tips&Stories: BIcycling and weight control
Tips&Stories: January meeting to combat childhood obesity in KCK
Tips&Stories: How does fat hurt you?
Tips&Stories: Growing U.S. obesity problem shown graphically
Tips&Stories: Today's youth the most inactive ever
Tips&Stories: American children "unhealthiest generation in decades"
Tips&Stories: More alarm bells about childhood obesity
Tips&Stories: Obesity in children even more dangerous than previously thought
Tips&Stories: In WHAT other state?
Tips&Stories: The fattening of America . . .
Tips&Stories: Need some incentive to get out and ride?
Tips&Stories: Why are Americans obese?
Tips&Stories: U.S. obesity clearly linked to poor walking, cycling facilities
Tips&Stories: New urban designed needed to combat obesity
Tips&Stories: Obesity now outweighs hunger worldwide
News: Missouri 15th fattest state
Links: The Missouri Foundation for Health's Healthy and Active Living Grants
News: Europeans approve anti-obesity charter
News: Columbia non-motorized pilot project to be subject of research
Tips&Stories: Even 15 minutes vigorous daily exercise helps kids
News: Columbia lawmaker wants more active students
Tips&Stories: U.S. = world's fattest country?
News: Tour of Missouri points up the state's sorry state of bicycling
Tips&Stories: Is bicycling safe?
News: MU Extension holds Missouri Obesity Summit
Links: Walking, Cycling, and Obesity Rates in Europe, North America, and Australia
Tips&Stories: Rising gas prices affect our national health for the better?
Tips&Stories: Center for Disease Control advocates bicycling, walking
News: Healthy, Active and Vibrant Community Toolkit from TrailNet
News: Bicycle Commuter Act signed into law
News: Bicycling, Walking, Health, and Obesity in Rural Communities in Missouri
News: National organizations support Complete Streets
Tips&Stories: New movie about obesity epidemic released
News: Walking School Bus--first in Kansas
News: Major national organizations endorse Complete Streets
Tips&Stories: Inactive young children face serious health risks later in life
News: Take a Child Outside Week Sept 24-30
News: MoBikeFed Voter Guide: Missouri House races
Tips&Stories: Compton Drew Middle School Bicycle Club rides the Katy Trail
News: Conference of Mayors Adopts Bicycling Resolution
Tips&Stories: Diabetes up 90%; can be stopped by moderate daily exercise
Newsletter: MoBikeFed Voter Guide: Missouri House Candidates
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