| Tennis star serves a return
BLUEFIELD, Va. — Marianna Sarver was a tennis standout.She ranked among the nation's best on the junior circuits, played one year for Bluefield High School, and followed that with three seasons at Wake Forest.Then, Sarver packed up and left for California. Tennis became an afterthought. She was a chef for about 12 years, followed by several years as a social worker. She's back. Tennis, and family, are a big reason why. Sarver's brother, Steve, the owner of Sedgewood Tennis Club encouraged a return to Bluefield. So did her mother, Joy. Not only will Sarver be back home on a permanent basis for the first time in 18 years, but she'll also work as an instructor at Sedgewood and will help promote tennis for the West Virginia Mid-Atlantic Region of the United States Tennis Association in southern West Virginia and southwest Virginia.
Aspiring chef temporarily changes ‘direction’
Gregory Theis is a student at one of the finest culinary schools in the nation, Le Cordon Bleu in Chicago.However, at present, studying the perfect souffl/ is far from the forefront in his mind.That's because Theis is in the middle of a self-described hiatus from culinary school in order to recharge his batteries and spend a little time with his other love, theater. .
Indian schools asked to ban junk food
India's children are getting increasingly overweight and unhealthy and the government is asking schools to ban junk food, officials said Thursday. The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, a government advisory body, has drawn up healthy eating guidelines for both government and privately run schools to follow, said Sandhya Bajaj, a commission member. "The number of overweight children in schools is growing," Bajaj said in a telephone interview. She said that the commission was getting complaints from parents who said that their children were buying unhealthy food from school cafeterias. Obesity is emerging as a serious health problem in urban India, a paradox in a country where nearly half the children are malnourished and underweight.
Study gives New Jersey an "F" as in "fat"
New Jerseyans are eating more and exercising less, making the Garden State one of 31 states in which obesity rates continued to climb last year, a new report shows. More than one in five New Jersey adults � 22.2 percent � are obese and 14 percent of children ages 10 to 17 are overweight, according to the report by Trust for America's Health, a research group that focuses on disease prevention. Comparatively, Mississippi became the first state to crack the 30 percent barrier for adult residents considered to be obese. West Virginia and Alabama are just slightly behind, while Colorado continued its reign as the leanest state in the nation with an obesity rate projected at 17.6 percent. More than a quarter, or 27.3 percent, of New Jersey adults do not exercise, compared with 22 percent nationally, according to the report funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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