Starting Down the Path

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Starting Down the Path
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Things to Know

• Centers for Disease Control (CDC), avoids using
  the word "obesity" for children and adolescents.
  Instead, they suggest two levels of overweight
  "at risk" level, and the more severe level.
• The American Obesity Association uses the 85th
  percentile of Body Mass Index (BMI) as a
  reference point for overweight and the 95th
  percentile for obesity.

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BMI

• Body Mass Index
• Underweight, Overweight, or at Risk
• (Weight in Pounds/Height in Inches/Height in
  Inches) x 703
• Scale 85th and up overweight
• 95th obese
• www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/bmi

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BMI

• Studies show low-weight patients with lowest BMIs
  
• Had highest rates of death from heart disease and
  all other causes
• Patients considered to be overweight, but not
  obese
• Had lower risk for death from any cause than
  patients whose BMIs fell in the normal range.

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What Is a Healthy BMI?

• A person with a BMI of 18.5 to 24.9 is considered
  to be at a healthy weight
• A person with a BMI of 25-29.9 is considered to
  be overweight
• A BMI over 30 is considered obese
• A BMI of 40 or above indicates that a person is
  morbidly obese

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BMI Chart Where are you now?
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Are you overweight?

• You may be at increased risk for health problems
  if you are
• A man with a waist measurement greater than 40
  in.
• A woman with a waist measurement greater than 35
  in.

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Numbers to Know

• Currently one child in five is overweight
• 15.3 percent of children (ages 6 to 11) are obese
  compared with 7 percent in the late 70s early
  80s
• 15.5 percent of adolescents (ages 12 to 19)
  compared with 5 percent in the late 70s early
  80s

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Adding to the Problem

• Physical Activity - Lack of regular exercise.
• Sedentary behavior
• Eating Habits - Over-consumption of high-calorie
  foods.
• Environment
• Genetics

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Health Risks

• Include but are not limited
• Diabetes Type 2
• Asthma
• Hypertension
• Weight stress in the joints
• Psychological Risks
• Poor self-esteem
• Depression
• Negative Self Image

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Social Risks

• Being overweight plays a major role in an
  individuals social life.
• People who are overweight/obese are often
  outcasts because people view them as ugly, slobs
  and lazy.
• People with weight issues feel that they dont
  fit in and will often be found shying away from
  their peers and secluding themselves.

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New Food Pyramid

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Food Pyramid Cont.

• Grains-try and make ½ whole grains
• Vegetables-shake it up, try new veggies
• Fruits-get your fruit on, just not in juice form
• Milk-calcium
• Meat and Beans
• Oils- we need some oils, but dont overdo it

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Armed with information

• Role Model
• Exercise
• Nutrition
• Labels
• Calories
• Know what your kids are eating

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Role Model

• You have to eat the good food too
• Never reward or punish with food
• Let children help prepare the food, they want to
  be involved
• You are in charge, not your children
• Be prepared for resistance
• Turn off the electronics

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Exercise

• Do it as a family
• 30 minutes a day
• Build from there
• Put children in activities they enjoy
• Turn it into individual
• Do something everyday

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Nutrition

• Ingredients Pasteurized Milk, Cheese Culture,
  Potassium Chloride, Enzymes.

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Minute Maid Apple Juice

• 15.2 oz plastic container
• Serving Size 8 oz
• 26g of sugar
• 110 calories
• If a person drinks the whole bottle they get
  double of everything
• Concentrated Apple Juice, Calcium Citrate and
  Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid).

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Edy's Cookies 'N Cream

• Cream, milk, skim milk, sugar, chocolate cookies
  sugar, enriched flour (flour, niacin, reduced
  iron, thiamine mononitrate riboflavin, folic
  acid), partially hydrogenated soybean and
  cottonseed oils, cocoa processed with alkali,
  high fructose corn syrup, corn flour, corn
  starch, chocolate, baking soda, salt, natural and
  artificial flavor, lecithin, corn syrup, natural
  flavor, cellulose gum, mono and diglycerides,
  guar gum, carrageenan, annatto color, dextrose

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Words People Should Know

• Partially Hydrogenated Oil
• Corn Syrup
• Sugar
• Trans Fats

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Advertising

• "Betcha can't eat just one.(Frito-Lay)
• "It's a honey of an O, its (Honey-nut Cheerios )
• ""Leggo my...." (Eggo)
• "Silly Rabbit,..........Are for kids!" (Trix)
• I'm a pepper, he's a pepper, she's a pepper,
  we're a pepper wouldn't you like to be a pepper
  too?(Dr. Pepper)

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Advertising

• There Great!! (Frosted Flakes)
• Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you
  don't. (Almond Joy and Mounds)
• What would you do for a ________ Bar?
  (Klondike)
• Whoohoo! (Pillsbury)
• My baloney has a first name (Oscar-Mayer)

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Know What Your Children are Eating

• Know food charts
• Make conversations about nutrition
• Do not remove food
• Give healthy choices

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• http//www.obesity.org/subs/childhood/prevalence.s
  html
• http//www.aso.org.uk/portal.asp?oricmid160orict
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  measo_oric
• http//www.centenaryarchers.gil.com.au/images/food
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• http//www.mypyramid.gov/
• http//www.mypyramid.gov/global_nav/media_animatio
  n-presentation_eng_pc.html
• www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/bmi

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• http//www.dietfacts.com/
• http//www.oprah.com
• http//www.evms.edu.diabetes/research.html