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When I was in grade school, my Dad’s after-work errands often included a stop at “the distributor.” Just down the road from the state liquor store, it was the only place to buy beer in our sleepy Pocono Mountains town. A pretty standard arrangement here in Pennsylvania, but it baffled the out-of-state tourists in a hurry to find booze to fuel their woodsy vacations…

About 41 percent of Philadelphia kids ages 6 to 17 are overweight or obese. In some neighborhoods the level is much higher: 70 percent in North Philadelphia, for example, which is nearly double the national rate.

“The stats in Philadelphia are pretty shocking,” says Marlene Olshan, Chief Executive Officer of the Vetri Community Partnership (VCP). Olshan and her staff are trying to help break what she calls the cycle of unhealthy eating, in which kids grow up learning bad eating habits at home…