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<p>Why is it important that people exercise in their senior years? Maureen Cavanaugh and Hank Crook discuss what kinds of exercises seniors should do, and the long-term health benefits that can be gained from staying physically fit as we age.</p>
<p>Southern Arizona children are suffering from adult afflictions — and doctors blame it on a troubling surge in childhood obesity.</p> <p>In Arizona 31 percent of children between the ages of 10 and 17 are overweight or obese, experts say.</p> <p>Lifestyle, diet and genetics play a role, but the biggest common denominator among them is socioeconomic.</p>
<p>A child's lifestyle, diet and genetics all play a role in their health, but the biggest obstacle to a child receiving good nutrition is socioeconomic.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.kqed.org/assets/slideshow/creativityexplored/" target="_blank">Take a tour of Creativity Explored</a>'s studio space, and see artists show off their work. <a href="http://www.creativityexplored.org/" target="_blank">Creativity Explored</a> is an art studio in San Francisco's Mission District, where all the artists are people with developmental disabilities.</p><p> </p>
<p>An audio<a href="http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201004222000/f" target="_blank"> postcard from "We Gotta Dance,"</a> a social event for developmentally disabled people. The monthly dance is organized by the <a href="http://thearcsf.org/" target="_blank">Arc of San Francisco</a>, a nonprofit resource for people with developmental disabilities.</p>
<p>When someone living in New York's West African Communities shows signs of mental illness, friends and family don't send the individual to a doctor. The community gathers up enough money to send them to Africa for treatment. Laura Starecheski reports from New York.</p>
<p>Experts say that nitrate pollution is a major threat to California future water supply, while some cities already spend millions of dollars to treat nitrates in groundwater. Second in a two-part series produced in collaboration with California Watch and KQED Radio.</p><p><a href="http://www.californiawatch.org/remedies-nitrate-contamination-anything-…;
<p>As Chico eyes possible wood-burning restrictions, the Enterprise-Record launched a two-month reporting project to better understand the medical, environmental, political and economic realities of heating homes with wood.</p>
