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Support Children’s Healthy Growth (Insert your name here)

Support Children’s Healthy Growth (Insert your name here). Workshop Presentation. Support Children’s Healthy Growth. This presentation is intended for trainers to provide detailed information about supporting children’s healthy growth and preventing overweight.

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Support Children’s Healthy Growth (Insert your name here)

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  1. Support Children’s Healthy Growth(Insert your name here) Workshop Presentation

  2. Support Children’s Healthy Growth This presentation is intended for trainers to provide detailed information about supporting children’s healthy growth and preventing overweight. The project was supported by the National Research Initiative of the USDA National Research Initiative Grant # 2006-55215-16726

  3. Objectives Learner will be able to: • Describe the prevalence of childhood overweight. • Identify the causes of childhood overweight. • Describe ways to prevent childhood overweight and support children’s healthy weight. • Recognize the role of active play in supporting children’s healthy growth.

  4. What’s Everyone Talking About? • As of 2004, 66.3% of adults 20 years and older are overweight. • 32.2% are considered obese.

  5. Overweight and Obesity

  6. Adults Aren’t The Only Ones • Being Overweight is a growing trend both for adults and children.

  7. Prevalence of Childhood Overweight • Increased from 5% to 13.9% for children aged 2-5 years the past 30 years.

  8. Why a concern? • Low self-esteem

  9. Why a concern? • Health Complications Diabetes

  10. Why a concern? • Health Complications Heart Disease

  11. Why a concern? • Health Complications Orthopedic Problems

  12. Why a concern? • Health Complications Sleep Problems

  13. Why a concern? • Obese children are more likely to be obese adults

  14. Causes of Childhood Overweight?

  15. Causes of Childhood Overweight?

  16. Causes of Childhood Overweight?

  17. Identifying childhood overweight ?

  18. How can you tell? • The Body Mass Index, or BMI, is a measure of how proportionate a person’s weight is to their height.

  19. Calculating BMI • Weight (lb) / [height (in)]2 x 703

  20. Interpreting Children’s BMI • BMI is also the measure of choice for children over 2 BUTmust be interpreted with care!

  21. Interpreting Children’s BMI • Children’s BMIs change with age so that what is normal for a 6-year-old is quite different than for a 12-year-old. • See www.cdc.gov/growthcharts for more information.

  22. For Children, BMI Changes with Age BMI Boys: 2 to 20 years BMI Example: 95th Percentile Tracking AgeBMI 2 yrs 19.3 4 yrs 17.8 9 yrs 21.0 13 yrs 25.1 BMI BMI

  23. BMI-for-Age Cutoffs > 95th percentile Overweight 85th to < 95th Percentile Risk of overweight < 5th percentile Underweight

  24. Supporting a healthy weight is important…what can we do?

  25. Children’s Healthy Weight Ideally, all children would to be at a healthy weight. BUT preventing weight gain is a great goal. An achievable goal for children is to lead a healthy life regardless of their weight.

  26. Supporting Children’s Healthy Weight • Support breastfeeding in your child care setting!

  27. Supporting Children’s Healthy Weight • Encourage the introduction of solid foods at approximately 6 months!

  28. Supporting Children’s Healthy Weight • Offer children small portions!

  29. Supporting Children’s Healthy Weight • No TV at mealtimes!

  30. More ways to prevent overweight and support a healthy weight • Visit: http://www.cals.uidaho.edu/mealtimeandactiveplay/ for information on feeding strategies

  31. Active Play • Being physical active is critical to supporting children’s healthy weight! • Visit http://www.cals.uidaho.edu/mealtimeandactiveplay

  32. Treatment and Partnership • Treatment is prescribed by the child’s physician • Critical to partner: you, parent, and the child’s physician!

  33. Questions?

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