Mississippi Business Journal » eating http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:16:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 State sees first decline in adolescent obesity in 10 years http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/12/04/state-sees-first-decline-in-adolescent-obesity-in-10-years/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=state-sees-first-decline-in-adolescent-obesity-in-10-years http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/12/04/state-sees-first-decline-in-adolescent-obesity-in-10-years/#comments Tue, 04 Dec 2012 12:19:30 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=66129 ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Mississippi’s obesity rate in high school students (grades 9-12) has dropped by 12.7 percent, knocking the state’s teens out of the number one spot down to number five in obesity nationwide. Mississippi’s 2011 Youth Risk Behavioral Survey found the rate of obesity among Mississippi high school students to be 16.5 percent, down [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/12/04/state-sees-first-decline-in-adolescent-obesity-in-10-years/feed/ 1 Report: Nearly 70% of state’s residents will be obese by 2030 http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/18/report-nearly-70-of-states-residents-will-be-obese-by-2030/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=report-nearly-70-of-states-residents-will-be-obese-by-2030 http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/18/report-nearly-70-of-states-residents-will-be-obese-by-2030/#comments Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:06:39 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=62817 NEW YORK — A group campaigning against obesity predicts that by 2030 more than half the people in 39 states will be obese — not merely overweight, but obese. Mississippi is expected to retain its crown as the fattest state in the nation for at least two more decades. The report predicts 67 percent of [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/18/report-nearly-70-of-states-residents-will-be-obese-by-2030/feed/ 3 Tyson, Urban League partner to fight ‘food insecurity’ http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/06/22/tyson-urban-league-partner-to-fight-food-insecurity/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tyson-urban-league-partner-to-fight-food-insecurity http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/06/22/tyson-urban-league-partner-to-fight-food-insecurity/#comments Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:41:27 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=58810 ADAMS COUNTY and WARREN COUNTY — Tyson Foods, in partnership with the National Urban League, has launched a grassroots, community-based hunger awareness and relief program that will provide resources to Mississippi citizens impacted by food insecurity. Dubbed the Urban League-Tyson Foods Hunger Project Mississippi, Tyson and the League are targeting the state because it has [...]

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