West Virginia leads the nation in diabetes, heart attacks, and obesity, among others. One in four West Virginia 11-year-olds has high blood pressure and high cholesterol. One in five kindergartners is obese.
As one public health official said, “This is a public health emergency.”
Learn about the problem, meet people who are trying to bring those numbers down, and learn what you can do.
This ongoing project is supported by a Dennis Hunt fellowship administered by the Annenberg Foundation.
As one public health official said, “This is a public health emergency.”
Learn about the problem, meet people who are trying to bring those numbers down, and learn what you can do.
This ongoing project is supported by a Dennis Hunt fellowship administered by the Annenberg Foundation.
May 19, 2012
16-year-old runs off the weight
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May 5, 2012
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May 5, 2012
A new website invites West Virginians to find help, inspiration and information to supp ...
May 5, 2012
'Jesus and Cabin Creek Clinic delivered me from food'
Freida Smith lives up Campbell's Creek "on a road where it's so qui ...
April 30, 2012
Appalachian myth stands in way of prevention, expert says
"West Virginia patients come into my office," Dr. Frank Schwartz said, "and ...
April 29, 2012
6,000 diabetics, but no diabetes education ... yet
Once a week, Anise Nash drives to Logan County, home of Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, ...
April 28, 2012
'It's up to you wheter you do or you don't
The winter of 2010-11, it snowed a lot in Mingo County. Fifty-four-year-old Everette Ray Ro ...
April 28, 2012
'Diabetes is not for sissies'
For four hours, Bill Hall used to lie on a padded vinyl recliner, one arm stretched out ...
April 28, 2012
'We can beat that old sugar'
BELINGTON, W.Va. -- Glenda Blake grew up in Barbour County, an ornery little round-face ...
April 28, 2012
Deadly epidemic 'exploding in front of us'
Think about this: More than 200,000 West Virginians have contracted a d ...
April 9, 2012
Mingo County stages breakfast revolution in schools
On a chilly morning, at 8:20 ...
April 8, 2012
Duerring: 'We're backing up and trying again'
Last August, all 261 Kanawha County school cooks were abruptly ordered to quit serv ...
April 7, 2012
Seven counties feed kids fresh food daily
Kindergartners swarmed around the sa ...
March 31, 2012
West Virginia has the nation's worst statistics in 10 of 12 categories in the new 2011 Gallu ...
February 25, 2012
How, why, when did W.Va. pack on the pounds?
More than 30 years ago, Ric McDowell helped start a Lincoln County summer camp ...
February 20, 2012
Can W.Va. do the same?
In 2005, almost four out of 10 kids in the Kearney, Neb., school ...
February 19, 2012
Wood County school helps get kids fit before they sit
It's 7:15 a.m., still dark outside Wood Coun ...
February 12, 2012
"We can beat this," said Dr. Alan Ducatman, interi ...
February 12, 2012
Dannie Cunningham, 61, climbed the steep hill be ...
February 12, 2012
Nurse Devena Moore, Dannie Cunningham's health coach, directs the diabetes ...
February 11, 2012
Jenni, a young teenager, sat on a West Virginia Universi ...
February 11, 2012
One in four 11-year-olds faces high blood pressure, cholesterol, obesity
"Every week, I see 12-year- ...
February 11, 2012
Children at risk of chronic disease identified, but who follows up on care?
Every year, for 12 years, Lincoln County school nurse Pa ...
December 31, 2011
West Virginians inspire each other to get healthy
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