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This guide provides actionable advice from Dr. Olga Vaca Durr on combating childhood obesity through healthy eating and physical activity. It explores the severity of childhood obesity through statistics and research, and presents topics like physical fitness, obesity data, and developing a plan to achieve a healthy lifestyle. The book aims to help everyone better understand the issue of childhood obesity and how any child can achieve long-term health.
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This document provides information about the Let's Move! Child Care initiative to promote healthy eating and physical activity habits among children. It discusses the basics of childhood obesity, your important role in prevention, and the 5 goals and best practices for nutrition, physical activity, screen time, beverages and infant feeding. It outlines how to participate by taking an online checklist quiz, creating an action plan, accessing free resources and tips, and becoming a recognized provider. The resources section lists curricula, videos, recipes, tip sheets, books and materials to encourage healthy habits for both children and their families.
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Very low calorie diets and low calorie diets for weight loss are one of the most commonly used and most effective of all the measures for weight loss. Given the risks associated with very low calorie diets, it has to be done only under the supervision of a trained and licensed physician familiar with treatment of obesity.
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This document provides guidance on physical activity recommendations and the health benefits of physical activity. It recommends that adults engage in at least 150 minutes of moderate physical activity per week, or 75 minutes of vigorous physical activity per week. For children and adolescents, it recommends at least 60 minutes per day of moderate to vigorous physical activity. It outlines that physical activity can include activities like walking, cycling, sports, and muscle-strengthening exercises. The document also notes that physical activity is effective at reducing the risk of many health conditions like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, and depression.Weight Looser Mentality: A Shocking Truth About Weight Loss
Weight loss became a big industry and a great source of income. Many businesses thrive on fat reduction surgeries, selling herbal teas, creating diet and exercise programs. concerns about their effectiveness and safety are only one side of the coin. The second part of trend is formation of a new mentality – weight looser. These are some concepts of this mental body and weight perception.
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This document provides information on healthy eating for teenagers. It discusses that teenagers have heightened nutritional needs during growth periods. It recommends that teenagers consume the right proportions and amounts of calories, carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins and minerals. Healthy eating promotes lifelong good habits and reduces risks of diseases later in life. The document provides some tips for improving a teenager's diet, such as reducing sugary drinks, eating breakfast daily, helping prepare healthier meals, and choosing healthier options when eating out with friends.
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- 1. HEALTH-FITNESS-DIET U.S. $XX.XX This guide is a handy resource for anyone struggling with obesity—especially children and teens. Dr. Olga Vaca Durr offers actionable advice for teens and children who are fast approaching obesity but who want to learn how to turn their lives around and live a healthy lifestyle instead. Providing help for eating healthy and for getting physically active to meet the challenge of living a healthy life, Vaca Durr also explores statistics illustrating the severity of the problem of childhood obesity today, as well as detailed charts and graphs to support her research. It’s Not about Childhood Obesity includes specifics on a variety of topics: Physical activity and fitness• Statistics, data, and research on childhood obesity• Potential effects of childhood obesity• It also presents advice for developing a plan to combat childhood obesity and creating a “healthy for life” lifestyle. It’s Not about Childhood Obesity seeks to enable everyone to better understand this issue and the challenge that it presents today. By focusing on the effects of childhood obesity insures that any child can achieve a long and healthy life through physical fitness and activity and by adopting a diet of healthy foods. DR. OLGA VACA DURR worked in the educational field for fourteen years. She has degrees in elementary and special education, educational administration, and leadership; with specializations in early childhood, bilingual education, and diagnostics. She is currently working on a journal to accompany It’s Not about Childhood Obesity and a second book. Olga, her Soldier husband, and their three children call Texas home.