It's Not About Childhood Obesity: It is About Being Healthy for Life - Softcover

Durr, Dr. Olga Vaca

Softcover

ISBN 10: 146240412X ISBN 13: 9781462404124

Publisher: InspiringVoices, 2012

Synopsis

This guide is a handy resource for anyone struggling with obesity-especially children and teens. Dr. Olga Vaca Durr offers actionable advice for teens and children who are fast approaching obesity but who want to learn how to turn their lives around and live a healthy lifestyle instead. Providing help for eating healthy and for getting physically active to meet the challenge of living a healthy life, Vaca Durr also explores statistics illustrating the severity of the problem of childhood obesity today, as well as detailed charts and graphs to support her research. It's Not about Childhood Obesity includes specifics on a variety of topics: Physical activity and fitness Statistics, data, and research on childhood obesity Potential effects of childhood obesity It also presents advice for developing a plan to combat childhood obesity and creating a "healthy for life" lifestyle. It's Not about Childhood Obesity seeks to enable everyone to better understand this issue and the challenge that it presents today. By focusing on the effects of childhood obesity insures that any child can achieve a long and healthy life through physical fitness and activity and by adopting a diet of healthy foods.

About this title

About the Author:

DR. OLGA VACA DURR worked in the educational field for fourteen years. She has degrees in elementary and special education, educational administration, and leadership; with specializations in early childhood, bilingual education, and diagnostics. She is currently working on a journal to accompany It's Not about Childhood Obesity and a second book. Olga, her Soldier husband, and their three children call Texas home.

About this edition

• Publisher: InspiringVoices
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 146240412X
• ISBN 13: 9781462404124
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 206