ActivityWorks: Combating Childhood Obesity In Schools

While working with The Center for Weight Management - Department of Medicine - for the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System as part of their pediatric obesity initiative, I assisted in the design and development of the ActivityWorks program to help combat childhood obesity in schools. My role was to design the Kinetic Protocol which drives each ActivityWorks segment - creating the science behind the program.

As health professionals we all recognize that children today are faced with far greater challenges to their health and well-being. The "Age of Convenience" in which we live has reduced our children's need and desire to remain physically active - and has chemically altered almost every food they eat. As a result of this dramatic change in lifestyle over the past 40 years, childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions and children today are at far greater risk for developing diabetes, heart disease and other serious illness at a young age. If this unhealthy trend continues, we can expect that today's overweight children will become tomorrow's obese adults - and that our healthcare system will become increasingly overburdened. As parents, educations and clinicians we have a responsibility to find creative ways to assist children in developing life-long healthy habits. The ActivityWorks program was designed to help answer this need. Please take a moment to review the ActivityWorks website and help spread the word about this worthwhile project.

Barry M. Stein, DPE, Clinical Exercise Physiologist

 To learn more about ActivityWorks CLICK HERE

 To Learn more about my work designing the Kinetic Protocol for  ActivityWorks http://comps.activityworks.com/Barry.php

Learn more about Activity Works on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/activityworks

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You are working for the great cause.Thanks for sharing your experience with us.Found interesting to read your post.