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Posted at 04:07 PM ET, 02/02/2010

Schools and overweight kids

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Would you support a university's decision to grant diplomas to overweight students only if they took a special fitness class?

One school actually required this.

Read about what happened at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania --and how schools are dealing with the obesity epidemic among young people at my colleague Lenny Bernstein's fitness column called The Misfits.

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Categories:  Health | Tags:  health, physical education

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