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University of Kansas Center for Physical Activity & Weight Management. 12 th Annual Obesity Conference Jordan Freeze. 3-day conference in Overland Park, Kansas. Target Audience All Health Care Professionals Educators Parents, and many more.. Objective
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University of Kansas Center for Physical Activity & Weight Management 12th Annual Obesity Conference Jordan Freeze
3-day conference in Overland Park, Kansas • Target Audience • All Health Care Professionals • Educators • Parents, and many more.. • Objective • Discover common ground toward the elimination of childhood obesity in a generation • 16 speakers • FREE FOOD
Antronette K. Yancey, MD • Focus on physical activity – less controversy • More convenient to be active • Studies on physical activity in schools • Active study breaks increased academic achievement even with lost class time • Stop framing physical activity
Instant Recess! • Aim: make sitting as socially unacceptable as smoking or drinking and driving • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXijqaIH2NA
Judy Baker for First Lady’s Let’s Move Initiative • Provide information and tools to parents to make healthy choices for their kids • Increase healthy foods in schools • Ensure families have access to healthy food • Increase opportunity for kids to be active
Bruce M. Wolfe, MDBenefits of Major Weight Loss by Surgery • Differences in bariatric surgeries • Procedure most often used? • Patients know what they want • LA has 17 ads for lap-band surgery in a 4 mile drive
Amy Joy Lanou, Ph.D • Should milk be recommended to help maintain healthy weight? • Promoted for growth, healthy pregnancy, strength, and sports performance • “Milk Your Diet. Lose Weight” • Evidence: • No support for claims that added dairy products facilitate weight loss
Lisa Harnack, DrPH, RD • Experiments with Food Labeling • Pre and post labeling in NYC • Consumed MORE calories • Controlled experiments with calorie content or exercise required • Consumers did not like the exercise labeling • Believed consumers don’t fully understand what a “calorie” is
Michelle May, MDAm I Hungry? • Author of “Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat: How to Break Your Eat-Repent-Repeat Cycle” • Creator of Am I Hungry? Workshops • www.AmIHungry.com • Won a book!
Michelle May cont’d • What you eat is largely dependent on why you are eating • Don’t teach people to use exercise as punishment • Never talk about weight management and physical activity in the same session • 3 types of eating: Instinctive, Overeating, and Restrictive • Find perfect arc in your pendulum
