Doctors recommend stopping smoking, limiting alcohol intake, lowering cholesterol and saturated fat intake and increasing physical activity to reduce the risk of stroke.

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Moving also requires shifting institutional thought, especially the idea in education that physical exercise is in competition with academics for a slot in the curriculum instead of an essential ingredient of academic performance that begins with increasing general physical activity.

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Dukes said she supported tackling obesity by limiting unhealthy food and increasing opportunities for physical activity, but insisted it was wrong to "single out" bodegas which struggle to compete with large corporations.

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Although that number is nowhere near those of other social networking sites, it's a dramatic growth for the niche app, which is geared toward bringing together users who share a common interest of increasing fitness and physical activity.

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U.S. communities are built around automobiles, discouraging physical activity and increasing traffic accidents.

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To end this epidemic of childhood obesity in Indian Country, LMIC brings together federal agencies, communities, nonprofits, corporate partners, schools and tribes to focus on four areas: early childhood development, healthy learning communities, physical activity and increasing access to affordable, healthy foods.

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