Short descriptions of each story: easy-to-read, e-mailable pdfs of the actual newspaper pages, with all photos and charts.
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List of Stories
- The Shape We’re In: story list with URLs
- Useful charts and graphs
- ‘This Is a Public Health Emergency’ / One in four W.Va. 11-year-olds has high blood pressure, cholesterol, obesity
- Thousands of W.Va. kids are headed for diabetes
- Children at risk identified, but who follows up?
- “We can beat this” / Health experts say W.Va. can lower its high disease numbers
- “I want to tell people, this is possible.”/ You can prevent, control diabetes
- EDITORIAL: W.Va. can turn its health misfortunes around
- What happened? When / how / why did W.Va. pack on the pounds? / A look back in history.
- “Get kids moving however we can”
- Five days a week: Daily activity is affordable, Department of Education says
- Rocking the gym at 7:30 AM. Wood school gets kids fit before they sit.
- Nebraska school district slims kids by 13 percent / Can West Virginia schools do it too?
- “It’s not the shape you are, it’s the shape you’re in” : Active kids do better academically
- EDITORIAL: When kids are active, they do better in school, period.
- RESOURCES: Great physical activity links and research for people who work with kids
- Leadership needed: W.Va. ranks first in heart attack, diabetes, eight other health categories
- Success from Scratch: Seven counties feed kids fresh food daily
- “They’re focusing better in class” / Mingo County stages breakfast revolution in schools
- The bumpy road to nutritious school food / The Kanawha food fight and Jamie Oliver: What can be learned?
- “Everyday heroes.” Mud River women fight fires, lose hundreds of pounds, battle diabetes
- Mud River side story. ‘We don’t read research; we just do it’ / The power of support
- American Diabetes Association is MIA in W.Va.
- Body, spirit and medical home / ‘Jesus and Cabin Creek Clinic delivered me from food’
- W.Va. slammed with sugar: Deadly epidemic ‘exploding in front of us’
- Glenda and Jill vs. diabetes: ‘We can beat that old sugar’
- This is how bad diabetes can be: ‘Diabetes is not for sissies’
- Everette’s story: It doesn’t have to be that way
- EDITORIAL: Obesity: Sick and tired
- Logan hardest hit by diabetes: 6,000 diabetics, but no diabetes education … yet
- Appalachian myth stands in way of diabetes prevention, expert says
- “You’re an inspiration, Benji!” / With town’s support, teen runs off 100 pounds
- Blessed by music and bummed by teenage Type 2 diabetes
- Learning to deal with setbacks / Nine-year-old and grandparents determined to hold off diabetes
- Mud River women part 3: 1 year, 555 pounds, 555 balloons
- W.Va. school cooks learn new tricks
- Marple urges collaboration on obesity, teen pregnancy and hunger
- Extra fat equals extra problems / What fat can do to your health
- Who can you call? State doesn’t know where diabetes services are
- Looking for diabetes education? A list of diabetes self-management services in W.Va.
- Logan starting diabetes coalition / groups forming statewide with high need, few resources
- Get those counties moving! Counties hold first-ever health conference
- ” A middle-aged guy trying to stay fit” / Road planners can fight diabetes, heart disease, Wyoming clerk says
- Side story: W.Va. no longer last in bike friendliness
- West Virginia University students uncover weight-loss stories
- W.Va. project called “model for rural America”
- 2012 report predicts obesity in W.Va. to nearly double
- Ounces of prevention / Breastfeeding lowers risk of obesity, many chronic diseases
- Breastfeeding: One family at a time
- Central W.Va. success: percent of WIC moms nursing their babies six months or more jumped 52 percent
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