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Overweight Children
Learn how to prevent your kids from becoming overweight and a part of the childhood obesity epidemic and help overweight children reach a more healthy weight.
10 Healthy Family Resolutions
These 10 family resolutions can help you change your family's lifestyle so that you can all become more healthy.
Childhood Obesity
With the rise in childhood obesity, preventing childhood obesity is an important goal for all parents. Also learn how to help your overweight child lose weight through increased physical activity, healthy nutrition, and avoiding other risk factors for obesity.
Health Effects of Childhood Obesity
In addition to leading to poor self-esteem, the health effects of childhood obesity includes many diseases that were once thought to only affect overweight adults, such as high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes.
Childhood Obesity - Child Obesity Statistics
Understanding the actual statistics behind the number of overweight children and other important childhood obesity statistics may help you with your overweight child. It can also help your child who is at a healthy weight stay at a healthy weight.
Kids and Low-Carb Foods
Low-carb diets, such as the Atkins diet and South Beach diet, are fairly popular among people. Learn if they work for kids, if they are safe and why a modified low-carb diet may be a better alternative for the average child.
Extra Calories and Childhood Obesity
Learn how to help your kids lose weight and avoid becoming overweight by avoiding extra calories in her diet.
Portion Control and Childhood Obesity
Learn how to prevent childhood obesity and help kids lose weight by learning more about portion control, including understanding the portion sizes your kids should be eating, learning about serving sizes, and by choosing healthy snacks that aren't oversized.
Weight Loss Goals for Kids
Learn why having specific weight loss goals, in addition to more specific advice on how to eat healthier and how much more active they need to be, can be a much more helpful way to get kids to a healthier weight.
Preventing Childhood Obesity Recommendations
Read about the AAP's policy statement on the prevention of childhood obesity.
Childhood Obesity
Obesity in kids is a new epidemic. Who's to blame? Fast food? TV? Soft Drinks? Snacks? Video Games? You?
Five Quick and Easy Weight Loss Steps
These five quick and easy weight loss steps are things that you can do right now to lead your child, and your family, to a healthier way of living.
Kids Diabetes Alert
We often think of overweight adults as being at risk for having diabetes, but it is now know that many overweight teens are at risk for diabetes too. Learn to recognize the risk factors of diabetes in your kids.
Calories from Drinks
If your child is overweight, it can help to get your child's weight under control by understanding how many calories he is getting from the things he is drinking, including milk, juice, and soda.
Obesity Help - Drink Diary
Many kids get way too many calories from things they drink, including fruit drinks, tea, and soda. A Drink Diary can help you figure out how many calories your child is getting each day from milk, juice, etc., and why he is overweight.
How Many Calories Are in a Pound of Fat?
Understanding how many calories it takes to gain a pound of fat can help you understand how your kids become overweight so quickly.
Teen Diet Makeover
Review some common ways that you can makeover a teenager's diet to help them stop gaining weight.
Small Steps to a Healthy Family Lifestyle
Check out these 100 Small Steps and activities to see what you can do to change your family's life and make everyone more healthy and fit.
Childhood Obesity
My daughter is 4ft and she is 8 years old and 4 mon and she weighs 69lbs. Is she overweight and should I be doing something about it if she is?
Overweight Toddlers and Obesity
Review the risk factors for obesity in a toddler and whether or not a tall toddler is really overweight.
Portion Sizes and the Obesity Epidemic
Can downsizing our meals lead to fewer supersized kids? Learn how to control your child's portion sizes so that they don't overeat and become overweight.
Weight Management Guide
A weight management guide to help your children lose weight. While most children should not be put on a severely restricted diet, a combined approach of sensible nutrition and regular exercise can help to control weight gain.