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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-…;
<div class="node-body"><p>Serious depression is a growing problem for multicultural seniors. But unlike older whites, ethnic people 50-plus are blocked from treatment by poverty, limited or no insurance, lack of programs geared for them—and the stigma of mental problems that permeates many cultures. New America media senior editor Paul Kleyman reports his series on mental challenges for ethnic seniors.</p></div>
