Kids N Fitness© Evidenced-Based Weight Management Program
- Detailed Technology Description
- Technology Summary: Fun, interactive program around nutrition and exercise to help children and their parents improve their health.
- *Abstract
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Background: The problem of childhood obesity in the United States is growing at an alarming rate. Sixteen to 33 percent of children and adolescents are obese.
Unhealthy weight gain has been attributed to poor eating habits and lack of exercise. Kids are spending less time exercising and more time in front of the TV or computer or video-game console, and they lack education about healthy cooking and healthy eating habits. Overweight children are much more likely to become overweight adults unless they adopt and maintain healthier patterns of eating and exercise.
Obesity’s annual cost to society is estimated at nearly $100 billion. An intervention program that emphasizes exercise and nutritional education in an encouraging family-centered environment would be instrumental in treating childhood obesity and encouraging kids to adopt a healthy lifestyle.
Program Description: Kids N Fitness© is a lifestyle intervention program,which includes exercise and nutrition education in an encouraging andsupportive family centered environment. It’s designed to provide overweight children with the skills needed to make better food choices, and to motivate them to increase physical activity.The program sessions were designed by an expert team composed of clinicians, dieticians, physical therapists and other staff members of the Division of Endocrinologyand Metabolism at the Children's Hospital Los Angeles.
According to researchstudies following several years of implementation, the program has resulted in thereversal of unhealthy eating, physical inactivity, and weight gain. The programis proven to impart knowledge, teach healthy eating skills and enable overallbehavioral changes consistent with a healthy life style.
Program material consists of curriculum, logs, charts and family workbooks. It can be offered in a variety of settings, including schools, physical therapy clinics, gyms for children and adolescents, hospitals and nutritional and exercise clinics.
Applications:- Weight management in obese children andadolescents
Advantages:- Clinically proven and evidence based
- Teaches healthy eating skills
- Enables healthy behavioral changes
- Helps children lose needed weight
Development Stage:- Available fornon-exclusive licensing.
IP Protection: Registered Trademarkand Copyright
- Country/Region
- USA
