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The biggest threat to the health & happiness of children in 2012.

… The four-part HBO Documentary Films series, The Weight of The Nation explores the obesity epidemic in America. Watch all four parts of The Weight of the Nation …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

… Sodas, juice, sugary breakfast cereals, fast food and most processed snack foods are bad for us, their proliferation corresponding historically with the national weight gain.

Fresh food costs more than junk food, which puts the poor more at risk. Children are surrounded by the siren call of unhealthful food, fad diets don’t work and real change takes time. …

LA Times – Review: HBO’s ‘Weight of the Nation’ pounds away at obesity

… sugary soft drinks are the no. 1 source of calories in our diets,” said Margo Wootan, director of nutrition policy at the Center for Science in the Public Interest. “We get more calories from sodas and sugary drinks than any other individual food — cake, cookies, pizza, anything.” …

Soda giants scramble to fill void as sweets consumption declines

London 2012™ – The Official Video Game of the Olympic Games

Key Features:

Go for Gold

Compete in over 45 events* including all the blue ribbon events plus some all-new events to Olympic videogames offering the ultimate depth and variety. *Includes Motion Control and Party Play events.

More ways to play
Compete in a wide range of challenges and game modes including Olympic Games, Events Mode, Online Mode and Party Play.

Feel the Burn
For the first time ever in an Olympic Games video game, play using Motion Control with a dozen different events enabled for PlayStation®Move and Kinect™ for Xbox 360®

Compete for Global Glory
Take the competition online with leader boards tracking personal medal counts, and earn National Pride points with each medal you win for your country – keep playing and improve your nations standing! …

details

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Here’s the Olympics venues flythrough. (VIDEO)

See how that game was created using Autodesk. (VIDEO)

via @gymnewstics

Interesting and original choreography.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via Couch Gymnast – British Team Championships)

… see more highlight videos via that link.

There’s not much secret about the Classic in Chicago.

Blythe Lawrence will be there, LIVE blogging for Examiner.

Abigail Millet
Jordyn Wieber
Sabrina Vega
Mckenzie Wofford
Mckayla Maroney
Brandie Jay
Anna Li
Brenna Dowell
Kennedy Baker
Sarah Finnegan
Gabrielle Douglas
Mykayla Skinner
Kyla Ross
Chellsie Memmel
Grace McLaughlin
Rebecca Bross
Casey Jo Magee
Nastia Liukin
Mackenzie Brannan
Amanda Jetter
Bridget Sloan
Brianna Brown
Alexandra Raisman
Elizabeth Price

Look for Brenna to surprise.

• Balance Beam Situation – Nastia Liukin and the Classic of Secrets … all about veterans

Click PLAY or watch Nastia training Beam on YouTube.

• E Panel – An Absolute Classic … all about BARS

USAG – Nine current, former World champions headline Secret U.S. Classic

Canadian Gymnastics Championships – Before the meet Facebook album

USA Gymnastics has launched a new FAN site called USA Gymnast.

Quite slick. Featuring these main subcategories:

Home
News
Athletes
Photos
Video
Social Wall

Of those, Social Wall is the coolest. Choose between athlete tweets, Facebook status updates, photos and more.

USAgymnast.com

Sadly, there’s no RSS feed aside from Comments. And who wants to read online comments?

Don’t bother clicking on any RSS icons. You’ll be wasting your time. Web site designers who pretend to embrace social media without actually providing an RSS feed are conflicted, at best. Delusional, at worst.

USAG still owns Gymnast.com, as well. And is still not doing anything with that domain name. Somebody should make them an offer to buy it. $100,000+, I’d expect.

Without their two top gymnast, Beth Tweddle and Hannah Whelan, The City of Liverpool gymnastics club has defended their British Team title in Guildford.

Team Result
1 – 162.200 – Liverpool
2 – 160.900 – The Academy
3 – 160.300 – Notts

Top senior all-arounders from today (Unofficial- I might have missed someone!)

1. Rebecca Tunney 56.55
2. Danusia Francis 55.1
3. Ruby Harrold 54.8
4. Imogen Cairns 53.4
5. Jennifer Pinches 52.85
6. Nicole Hibbert 52.7
7. Jocelyn Hunt 52.5

full results via Going for Gold

More interesting is that this was the first “trial” for the GBR Women’s Olympic Team.

… Florida’s Marissa King came back from her NCAA Collegiate Stage to try and qualify herself to London 2012. She had a 14.6 on Vault, 13.15 on Floor …

World Gymnast

Click PLAY or Marissa’s Vault on YouTube.

Still, carrying Beth Tweddle as a specialist, Marissa is a long shot, at best:

Vault
1 14.850 – Ruby Harrold (The Academy)
2 14.750 – Rebecca Tunney (Liverpool)
3 14.600 – Marissa King (Huntington)
4 14.500 – Nicole Hibbert (Heathrow)
5 14.300 – Niamh Rippin (Notts)
6 14.200 – Imogen Cairns (The Academy)

see more apparatus results

Over 70 BGTV videos from British Teams 2012.

The true winner of the 2000 Olympics, Andreea Raducan, has released an autobiography. In Romanian.

Dowisk reports that an English translation is planned.

She’s on a National book tour May 19 to June 30.

Click PLAY or watch a promo on YouTube.

Details on her Facebook page.

related – Shawn Johnson’s book video trailer

Aunt Joyce:

When the heading coaching position at the University of Georgia became available, KJ Kindler’s named buzzed around the gymnastics world as the ideal choice to fill the role. While Kindler turned the position down, the episode has certainly served to put the University of Oklahoma and its women’s gymnastics coach in the NCAA spotlight.

Since taking over the program in 2006, KJ Kindler has led the Sooners to two Super Six appearances and the position of perennially vying for the National Title. I recently spoke with KJ Kindler about her program, the Sooners’ up and down 2012 season and the future of the program and its coach who loves to dance. …

Click PLAY or see the fierce ladies of 2012 on YouTube.

AJ: The Oklahoma team is known for being extremely fit and conditioned. What do you do specifically to achieve that? Many teams talk about conditioning, but your team is known for it.

KJ: The number one thing we focus on is nutrition. We educate the gymnasts as much as possible about nutrition. We bring in nutritionists who educate the girls and do private counselling with them. …

The second most important thing we focus on is strength and fitness. I am someone who fines tone, muscle and that ‘fit look’ to be beautiful. I’m not someone who finds being thin and waifish to be beautiful. …

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