Tag Archives: obesity

Should a Large Waistline Mean a Skinner Wallet?

Posted on February 26, 2013 by admin

How do you get a donkey to pull a cart?

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Preventing Childhood Obesity

Posted on July 31, 2012 by admin

By David Martin, President and CEO of VeinInnovations “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of a cure.” Benjamin Franklin is famous for many sayings. Today, this one feels prescient. In Georgia, we spend 2.4 billion dollars on obesity …

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Families Gaining (and Losing!) Weight Together

Posted on July 24, 2012 by admin

By David Martin, President and CEO of VeinInnovations We begin teaching our children from almost the moment they’re born. Infants soak up our words to learn to speak, carrying on accents and dialects through what they hear. We teach our kids …

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A Dirge for the Big Gulp

Posted on June 12, 2012 by admin

By David Martin, President and CEO of VeinInnovations Atlantans love soda. Well, we love one soda. Coca-Cola. Glass bottles of our native beverage appear at graduations, weddings, and summer barbeques. When a server says, “We don’t have Coke, but will you take …

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We’re So Heavy

Posted on May 22, 2012 by admin

By David Martin, President and CEO of VeinInnovations Summer is almost here. Stuck in winter doldrums, exercise is a bleak task. Now that the weather is warm, we’re staring out office windows and envious of school children with months of vacation ahead. …

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