Overweight children are not born. They’re raised.
In 1999, 13% of children aged 6 to 11 years and 14% of adolescents aged 12 to 19 years in the United States were overweight. This prevalence has nearly tripled for adolescents in the past 2 decades.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
The good news? There’s definitely something you can do about it!
Help the families in your congregation learn how they can quit being part of the problem and become a part of the cure!
Invite parents, teachers, and children's and student ministry leaders to join Dr. Walt Larimore for the critically important CCN broadcast, Preventing Childhood Obesity.
The problem of childhood obesity is real, prevalent and personal.
Problems once seen in adults over 50 are now striking young children: Heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, asthma, joint problems, arthritis. Childhood obesity is robbing children of both their quality and quantity life.
Says Larimore, "This epidemic is destroying children’s lives, draining family resources, and has the potential to push our country’s Social Security and Medicare systems dangerously close to collapse."
The crisis is being felt on every level, and now your church can help. Give families the resources they need to raise a healthy generation of kids!
You’ll receive:
- Information on the causes of obesity
- Step-by-step medically sound advice
- An 8-week plan for the whole family including: family activities, mealtimes at home, nutritional, rest and media choices.
Walter L. Larimore, M.D., educator, teacher, bestselling/award-winning author and medical journalist, is America's best known family physician. He hosted over 850 live daily episodes of the daily National Cable TV Show Ask the Family Doctor (1995-2000) on America's Health Network and later on Fox's Health Network. From 2001 to 2004, Dr. Larimore hosted the nationally syndicated Focus on Your Family's Health. Dr. Larimore practiced small-town family medicine for over 20 years (delivering over 1,500 babies) prior to moving to Colorado Springs in February 2001 to become Vice President and Family Physician in Residence at Focus on the Family until November 2004. His books include, The Highly Healthy Child, Supersized Kids: How to Rescue Your Child from the Obesity Threat, and Alternative Medicine (co-authored).
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