Do you offer any weight-loss programs and therapies for overweight children?
Preventing kids from becoming overweight sometimes means adapting or changing your family’s overall approach to health, wellness, exercise and nutrition. Changing the way the family understands nutrition and incorporates it into their daily life makes a huge difference in their health and their future well being. Helping kids lead healthy lifestyles begins with parents who lead by example. At Heal n Cure, we develop personalized weight-loss and wellness programs and offer therapeutic treatments for the entire family.
We have a Family practitioner on board with an extensive experience working with adult and pediatric patients in outpatient as well as inpatient settings. That gives them an advantage of treating the whole family, which oftentimes makes it easier for family members to go through the weight loss program and improve their health. Our programs impact the entire family.
Among children aged 6 to 11 years, the prevalence of obesity has more than doubled over the past three decades, rising from 6.5% in 1980 to 17.0% in 2006. The rate among adolescents aged 12 to 19 years has more than tripled during the same period, increasing from 5.0% to 17.6%. (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention) Surveyed United States high school students exhibited the following unhealthy behaviors on a daily basis:
- More than 70% ate fruits and vegetables less than five times.
- More than 30% drank a non-diet soda at least once.
- More than 50% did not meet recommended levels of physical activity.
- More than 30% watched three or more hours of television.
