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Celebrity dad Jack Black is promoting his new movie Kung Fu Panda 2 in the UK! As you can see from the picture from the UK red carpet, Jack Black is looking a little like a panda these days! But what does Jack’s weight mean for his sons?
Black and Tanya Haden share two sons. Their son Sammy is 4-years-old and Thomas is 2-years-old—and since one out of every three kids in our country are overweight or obese, research shows that a good example by a parent is important! Continue reading »
Reality star Ruby Gettinger, 47, says that she is considering hypnosis to remember possible childhood traumas that may caused her weight to a escalate to a life-threatening 716 pounds a decade ago. She fears someone close to her may have tried to harm her during childhood, and that perhaps hypnosis is the key to the past. What’s stopping her? Fear of the truth. “If someone hurt me when I was a child – verbally, physically, whatever – it would have been somebody I love.”
“I have nightmares about someone trying to kill me. I can never see that person’s face, but something tells me I know who it is. I wake up hardly able to breathe, dreaming someone’s hands are around my neck.”
Gettinger, who now weighs about 400 pounds, also believes that while her mother meant well, she enabled Gettinger’s addiction to overeating. Continue reading »
Every First Lady picks a cause to promote during her stay in the White House, and Michelle Obama is lending her talents to one that is important to parents and families everywhere — the epidemic of childhood obesity. Today the initiative, Let’s Move, officially launches and Michelle is doing the media rounds discussing what Let’s Move is all about. Continue reading »
With all the talk about health care and childhood obesity these days, Heidi Klum apparently felt the need to throw her 2 cents into the national debate. Whether or not she gets slammed for speaking out remains to be seen, but according to the supermodel, the responsibility for a child’s eating habits fall directly on the parents… not “Hollywood” or “the media.” Continue reading »
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