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COMBATING CHILDHOOD OBESITY n PART THREE OF THREE
County combating domestic violence
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By JILLIAN DUCHNOWSKI jduchnowski@shawmedia.com
Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com
Zoe Elder (left), 5, and Caileen Szostak, 6, each choose a fruit from the healthy food bar May 22 at Tyler Elementary School in DeKalb. The Coordinated Approach To Children’s Health program in the county received a $13,000 grant to put fresh fruit and vegetable bars into every elementary school cafeteria in DeKalb as part of an effort to help children learn to make healthy lifestyle choices.
Experts, schools work to educate both kids, parents By CHRIS BURROWS news@daily-chronicle.com
and KATE SCHOTT kschott@shawmedia.com Lisa Cumings was spurred to action by a boy in an elementary school cafeteria. Cumings, the community health liaison for Kishwaukee Hospital, was at DeKalb’s Tyler Elementary School in 2011 to teach a class about healthy foods as part of the hospital’s Coordinated Approach To Children’s Health program. “He came up to me after class and he pulled on my shoulder, and he said, ‘Miss Lisa, my mom doesn’t buy those types of foods. I don’t have those at home,’ ” Cumings said. That boy’s story, she said, is too important to not share. “It’s not just his story,” Cumings said. “It’s a story that probably reflects many children in the county. ... That’s the thing that stirred me.” Now Cumings and a variety of community organizations have come together to help curb childhood obesity and its causes. Theirs is a way of thinking shared by many who work on a grander scale to try to better the health of American children: de-emphasize weight loss and instead focus on the daily decisions that affect a child’s overall fitness. Replace the fried stuff with veggies. Skip the soda. Limit time spent in front of the TV. When possible, walk. That effort is needed: A May 2010report from the White House Task Force
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Abraham Arias’ case started out as a domestic battery. The 20-year-old DeKalb man was accused of grabbing his ex-girlfriend by her arms and holding her against her car, demanding to know why she wouldn’t return his calls and text messages. The charges against him became more serious after one of the three officers in the DeKalb police’s new domestic violence unit spent more time talking with the ex-girlfriend. Officer Sadie Pristave learned that Arias had sent the woman a photograph of a woman, bloodied and missing her jaw, via text message while he was in the booking area of the police station, authorities said. He told her to watch her back when he got out of jail because she was going to be next. Pristave initially called the woman to clarify some things she saw in the police report but ultimately six more charges were filed against Arias, of the 300 block of West Roosevelt Street. This week, he was sentenced to six months in DeKalb County Jail and to three years of probation after he pleaded guilty to harassment of a witness and domestic battery, court records show. DeKalb police view Arias’ case as one of the successes of the domestic violence unit they started in July. But as domestic violence advocates mark Domestic Violence Awareness Month, local leaders are considering how they can strengthen domestic violence programs such as this unit. Sarah Frazier, the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office detective who has specialized in domestic violence investigations for the past eight years, is returning to patrol duty in January, Sheriff Roger Scott said. Leaders are interviewing six or seven candidates next week and hope to have Frazier’s replacement start training with her in December.
See VIOLENCE, page A5
Quinn: No ADM tax breaks without a pension deal By SARA BURNETT The Associated Press
Monica Maschak – mmaschak@shawmedia.com
Kishwaukee Hospital community health liason Lisa Cumings teaches Chris Graff, 4, about MyPlate and saturated fats April 27 during Healthy Kids Day at the Kishwaukee Family YMCA. on Childhood Obesity found that nearly one in three children ages 2 to 19 is overweight or obese. Doctors take several factors into consideration – including weight, age, height and gender – to determine whether a child fits one of those categories. The task force’s action plan is to reduce the childhood obesity rate to 5 percent by 2030, the same rate before it began to rise in the late 1970s. It attempts to do so in a variety of ways, including changing the familiar food group pyramid to the MyPlate icon, intended to remind
Children in the U.S. today face the possibility that they will live shorter lives than their parents. Changes in American society, from increased portion sizes to foods with little nutritional value to technological devices of all kinds that discourage physical activity, have led to an estimated one-third of children and adolescents being
people to eat healthy. In August, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a first sign of potential progress, a study that showed from 2008 to 2011 nationwide there was a decrease in the obesity rate for preschool-aged children from low-income families. Nineteen states/ territories showed decreases, while 20 others – including Illinois – experienced no significant change. The rates rose in three states.
See INFLUENCE, page A7
considered overweight or obese. The Daily Chronicle presents a three-day series on childhood obesity and its effects on our children. n Thursday: The root causes of childhood obesity n Friday: Obese children risk physical, mental health issues n Today: Tips to make the whole family healthier
ONLINE Visit Daily-Chronicle.com to watch “Real Nutrition” blogger Kate Olson prepare healthy meals.
INSIDE An example of a healthy breakfast your kids will actually eat. Page A7
CHICAGO – Gov. Pat Quinn said he won’t consider any legislation with special tax incentives to get Archer Daniels Midland Co. to keep its global headquarters in Illinois until legislators approve a fix for the state’s nearly $100 billion pension crisis. The Chicago Democrat said if a bill to provide tax breaks to any corporation arrives on his desk before a pension deal, he will veto it. He also said ADM’s efforts would be better focused on lobbying lawmakers to address the nation’s worst-funded public-employee retirement system when they meet in Springfield later this month. “The best way to help jobs in Illinois is to do pension reform,” Quinn said. “To distract legislators in any way from this issue of a lifetime is just plain wrong.” ADM announced last week it planned to move its headquarters – and 100 jobs – out of Decatur to a location with better global access and that would be more attractive to young industry talent. The agribusiness giant this week asked lawmakers to approve legislation that would provide up to $24 million in tax breaks over 20 years to keep the headquarters in Illinois. The company also plans to add 100 new technology jobs at the new site in the next few years. ADM won’t say what locations it’s considering, but Chicago officials have said the city is in the running.
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