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In the midst of a deep economic recession, America's health insurance companies increased their profits by 56 percent in 2009, a year that saw 2.7 million people lose their private coverage.

The nation's five largest for-profit insurers closed 2009 with a combined profit of $12.2 billion, according to a report by the advocacy group Health Care for American Now (HCAN).

"The outsized earnings are a vivid reminder that without comprehensive national health care reform, the gatekeepers of our broken health insurance system always will put the short-term interests of Wall Street before the needs of millions of patients and a national economy plagued by joblessness," the report said.

A spokesman for the nation's health insurers said their profits are reasonable and represent only a small part overall increase in health insurance costs.

The HCAN report attributed this year's profits largely to insurers' dropping coverage of 2.7 million people, who then moved onto public insurance

First lady Michelle Obama has given the boot to the age-old parental admonition, “Clean your plate. There are children starving in China.”

The mother of two has launched an initiative to increase public awareness of childhood obesity. It well could be her legacy because statistics indicate one in three American children is overweight or obese.

Locally, many share her concern about that excess poundage.

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Dietitian Kathy Wise, Mercy Medical Center’s director of health and wellness, has seen a “huge increase” in obese youngsters over her 20-plus years in the profession. She blames parents’ and children’s tight schedules, fewer sit-down family meals and too much fast food.

“The big problem is parents working and pressed for time. Then we get our kids in more activities to keep them busy. So right after work, parents are driving kids to soccer or music lessons or dance. Mom’s just worked a full day. So they run through a fast-food place for a burger, fries an