Adolescent Weight Loss | Weight Loss New York

Pizza as a Vegetable?

Posted: Jan 11 in Blog by

With school lunches in their current state, the rising rate of childhood obesity is not much of a surprise. While many parents are pushing for their children to eat more and more vegetables, the fight for healthier choices has taken an odd turn—pizza is now considered a vegetable. Well more specifically, the tomato paste that is used to make tomato sauce that is on pizza now qualifies as a vegetable for public school lunch standards. This legislation comes as a response to a call for more vegetables present in public schools to provide children with more healthy lunch options.

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What to Do When Your Kids Don’t Want to Exercise

Posted: Dec 19 in Blog by

With obesity on the rise, it’s more important than ever to make sure that your children are eating healthy and exercising right. Unfortunately, that’s much easier said than done. Most children would rather be inside playing video games than outside playing sports. For parents, this can turn into a constant power struggle. Thankfully, there are plenty of ways to encourage your children to lose weight in Syracuse. Here are a few tips that you can use to make the experience joyful rather than miserable.

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Talk to your Kids about Weight Loss

Posted: Dec 14 in Blog by

Statistics report that one in three children in the Unites States is overweight or obese. Yet even when they are fully aware that their children are overweight, many parents are uncomfortable with approaching the topic with their kids. In order to help your child develop healthy habits early on it is important that you take the time to speak with them about losing weight, and your doctor is there to help.

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Motivating your Child to Lose Weight

Posted: Dec 08 in Blog by

Keeping your child motivated to lose weight is a common problem that many parents in America are dealing with on a daily basis. Getting your overweight child to understand the importance of fitness and nutrition is a task in and of itself. But there are several ways to go about doing this without making your child feel forced to do it. Your weight loss doctor in New York can help your entire family to remain motivated as you work together to become healthier.

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Gaming to Burn Fat

Posted: Dec 02 in Blog by

Video games are a common pastime in the United States. If you are trying to encourage your child to lose weight, one method that may be useful is encouraging exercise with exergaming. Here are a few simple tips to help your child burn more calories while taking part in their favorite hobby.

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Keep your Kids Moving by Limiting TV Time

Posted: May 10 in Blog by

For many adults the television, computer and video games that are stacked in our homes serve as the perfect baby sitter when we have chores or work to do. Endless games and shows can mesmerize a child for hours, and enable a parent to get a lot of chores done, but is it healthy for our children?

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What You Can Do About Teen Weight Problems

Posted: Mar 16 in Blog by

As an overweight teenager, there are a lot of factors that you cannot control when it comes to your weight. Genetics have control over how quickly you feel full, which can cause some people to overeat. Teens also may have family overeating habits to overcome. Plus, sometimes being a teen is not fun, and then emotional eating plays a role in teen obesity.

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Pam – 60 lb. weight loss

Posted: Sep 15 in Patient Results by

Having been overweight most of my life and coming from a family that has a history of obesity, I know what it feels like to think there’s nothing you can do about your weight, so there’s no point in trying.  But as Yoda said. “There is no try, only do.”  So I did something. I [...]

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Control Teen Obesity to Improve Mental and Physical Health

Posted: Mar 12 in Blog by

A recent study has shown that adopting healthy behavior with regards to food and exercise is the most successful method of losing weight and maintaining a healthy weight. With a third of the children in the United States being affected by obesity, and because teen obesity is one of the strongest predictors of adult obesity, it’s essential that researchers identify ways to stem obesity when the patient is an adolescent.

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