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Juvenile diabetes is a disease that more and more kids are getting. More than one million people in Ohio have some type of diabetes, and the number is growing. A new program teaching kids and teens about the disease just opened at Healthspace Cleveland, and Rick Jackson met an 11-year-old girl there who shows how you can still live a pretty normal life while battling a serious condition.

Legislators in Maryland want to make a law that requires schools to measure the body fat of all their students. School officials say it is a measure of a child's health, while some critics say it opens kids up to ridicule.

Two sixth grade students in Connecticut think their state should have its own official cookie. The girls and their class traveled to their state capital to testify in favor of a bill that would make oatmeal chocolate drop cookies with a dash of nutmeg the official state cookie.
March 10, 2006