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According to the latest childhood obesity statistics from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, “16 percent of children and adolescents ages 6-19 years are overweight.”

That is roughly 1 in every six kids is either obese or on the verge of childhood obesity. What these numbers show is that it will only get worse in the near future.

This is why so many health experts talk about the childhood obesity epidemic.

This is one of the major reasons why we are launching the Fighting Fit Fitness Boot Camps as well as the new Healthy Kids Fitness Boot Camps at our school. These programs are designed to improve overall health and fitness while building the right habits for the future.

About.com’s Childhood Obesity Risk Factors

Looking at the risk factors for obesity, especially poor eating habits and inactivity, can help you understand who’s to blame for the rise in childhood obesity:

• Nutrition - many overweight children are eating oversized portions and too many of the wrong foods, including:
  • High-Fat Foods
  • High Calorie Foods
  • Junk Food
  • Juice and Soda
• Physical Activity - a lack of physical activity is another big risk factor for childhood obesity
• Genetics - a family history of obesity
• Sleep - you might think that sleeping too much would increase your child’s risk of childhood obesity, but surprisingly, many studies show that not getting enough sleep increases the risk of childhood obesity.

Preventing Childhood Obesity

Although you can’t change genetics, you can work to change all of the other risk factors for childhood obesity. These resources should help:

• Understanding Child Nutrition
• Healthy Food
• Reading Food Labels
• Healthy Snacks for Kids
• Low Fat Foods
• Soda and Drink Guidelines
• Healthy Family Grocery Lists
• Low-Fat Milk
• Active Free Play
• Youth Sports
• Kids and TV
• Childhood Insomnia

Taking our childhood obesity quiz might also be helpful for parents trying to fight and prevent childhood obesity.

Is Your Child Overweight?

Do you know if your child is overweight?

Surprisingly, a lot of parents of overweight children don’t actually know they are overweight.

You can find out by asking your pediatrician to calculate your child’s body mass index or BMI, a formula that can help determine if your child is overweight, underweight, or at a healthy weight. Or use this online BMI calculator if you know your child’s current weight and height.

Calculating a child’s BMI is also important for all of those children who are already at a healthy weight, but think that they are overweight and may have an eating disorder.

Weight Loss

If your child is overweight, you should likely work with your pediatrician and/or a registered dietitian to help him lose weight, especially since overweight teenagers have a 70% chance of becoming overweight adults.

Having specific weight loss goals, in addition to more specific advice on how to eat healthier and how much more active they need to be, can also be helpful.

With these weight loss goals in mind, you can now try to help your child reach those goals by:

• encouraging moderate physical activity for at least 60 minutes on most days
• decreasing the amount of screen time to less than two hours a day, which includes time spent on the computer, watching TV, and playing video games
• figuring out how many calories your child needs with this calorie calculator
• understanding that there are about 3,500 calories in a pound of fat
• keeping a drink diary to help reduce how many calories your child is getting from sugary drinks
• learn to choose healthy food for your child to eat, including fruits and vegetables, and teach him to make healthy choices when he eats away from home
• make sure he is eating healthy snacks, so that snack time doesn’t turn into an extra meal
• encouraging your child to get a good nights sleep, keeping in mind that teens need about 9 hours of sleep, children between the ages of 6 and 12 need about 10 to 11 hours of sleep, and that preschoolers and toddlers need even more.
• moving up your weight loss goals after a few months if your child still needs to lose weight and has been successful with his initial goals. For example, some overweight teens will need to lose about two pounds every month or week to get to a healthy weight.

Most importantly, encourage healthy eating and a healthy weight instead of pushing “dieting” on your child.

Risks of Childhood Obesity

With the increase in childhood obesity comes an increase in a number of diseases and conditions that are associated with obesity. Some of the health effects of childhood obesity include:

• insulin resistance
• type 2 diabetes mellitus
• hypertension
• obstructive sleep apnea
• nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (fatty liver)
• poor self-esteem
• adult obesity

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Due to changes in her school schedule, travel and time constraints our previous and wonderful yoga instructor sadly said goodbye to Community Martial Arts. Of course this left me in a conundrum. The Yoga class isn’t a huge class but has a few dedicated individuals who truly love being in the Yoga class.

I didn’t have a replacement.

But…I have done yoga for a few years personally and for several years it was a part of our training regimen for warm up before class in the adult program.

I could have said… well, this isn’t going well so we can just cut the class. But I know that there are genuine benefits to Yoga. It is extremely beneficial for so many things.

If you have never tried it before, you would be amazed at what Yoga can do for your body. Not only will you strengthen and tone your body, you will also lose weight and feel great.

A typical Yoga class involves slow gentle movements, holding postures, and finishing with a few minutes of relaxed meditation. All of which take the body gently step by step into a gradual progression of intensity and cool down. I always feel great afterwards.

As of late, I have had lots of digestive trouble. I have had to change my diet over to Vegetarianism which has seemed to do the trick. I also needed to add more exercise into my regimen. I could say that I am too busy. I could say that I don’t look like your average spunky supermodel-esque yoga instructor. It doesn’t matter. I am going to exceed my own limits and teach Yoga. You never know what you can achieve until you reach beyond yourself!

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Tonight we focused on eye-hand coordination drills for the kids and followed up with some great sparring drills. The adults warmed up to a great workout and finished with more sparring drills and actual sparring. Fun was had by all.

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On January 20th we had a momentous day in history. We have the first African American President. No matter what side of the fence you prescribe to politically, you still con appreciate the historical significance of such an event.

Here is a video clip of the many things that are going on at the Mount Vernon school. You will get to see our Lil’ Ninjas class, Tae Kwon Do, Kids Kung Fu and our Boxing program.

There is absolutely something for everyone at Community Martial Arts.

Today’s post will be a short one. As I sip my coffee and getting ready to head to my first meeting of the day, I took a look around. One thing that struck me was the room that I am sitting in.

What would be the reason that someone would want to do business with me? How does the customer feel about my business when they walk in the door?

Is my business welcoming?

Are they enticed to buy?

Do I have an environment that is conducive to attract and enable buyers to spend money with me?

One of the major improvements I did to my business is totally renovate it over the holiday break. I spent some time and money to make the space feel more open and welcoming to my perspective clients. I specifically focused on customer satisfaction and comfort. The key to my business is satisfaction and how the customer feels as I provide my service. I added free premiums such as providing high end coffee and cappuccinos. I also provide free wireless Internet to make their visit inviting and comfortable.

While this model won’t work for every business, you can spend some time looking at your business from the customer perspective. Evaluate what small things you can do to make their visit as welcoming as possible. I believe it to be a ‘visual hug’ where I provide an environment that says “I want you as my customer.”