Ark. advances against childhood obesity
(AP)


<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060817/ap_on_he_me/fit_arkansas_children"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060816/capt.9ee26d9e78d642cda8551d04126b0b19.diet_arkansas_children_ardj101.jpg?x=130&y=91&sig=g7R06GMLbrvJgNANy73JcQ--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="Ledarious Patterson, 9, exercises with a hula hoop after a Little Rock, Ark., news conference Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2006, where statistics were released by Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee pertaining to overweight school children. Three years after Arkansas became the first state in the country to weigh its schoolchildren and send the numbers home to parents, the percentage of overweight kids has dropped slightly, Huckabee said. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)" border="0" /></a>AP - Rhonda Sanders received an eye-opening letter from her daughter's school three years ago: At age 10, her 5-foot, 137-pound child was heavier than 98 percent of her peers.</p><br clear="all"/>