The Smart Board (stylized as SMART Board) is a line of interactive whiteboards produced by the Calgary, Alberta-based company Smart Technologies.he Smart Board is an interactive whiteboard that uses touch detection for user input (for example scrolling and right mouse-click) in the same way as normal PC input devices.
Childhood obesity comes with an estimated price tag of $19,000 per child when comparing lifetime medical costs to those of a normal weight child, according to an analysis led by researchers at the Duke Global Health Institute and Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore.n alternative estimate, which takes into account the possibility of normal weight children gaining weight in adulthood, reduces the cost to $12,900 per obese child. The findings appear online today in the journal Pediatrics.
Obesity kills over 30,000 a year. by BEEZY MARSH, Daily Mail. More than 30,000 lives are being lost each year because of weight-related diseases, warned Health Secretary John Reid. Highlighting the appalling death toll from Britain's worsening obesity crisis, he said the problem was affecting children as young as 13. Obesity levels are rising at an alarming rate, said Dr Reid as he launched a national consultation on public health. The cost of obesity to the Health Service is estimated to be Â£500million a year. Most alarmingly, over a third of children are overweight or obese and there are increases in cases of Type II diabetes in children.