Hey guys, check out what i came across in medicalnewstoday.com. People have the right idea, they are telling children about fat loss muscle building.
“The National Business Coalition on Health (NBCH), a nonprofit organization of employer-based health coalitions, has honored Kaiser Permanente’s Kids in Dynamic Shape (KP KIDS) health plan with the 2008 eValue8 Health Plan Innovation Awards at its annual conference held in Washington, D.C.
“Plans selected for these awards have demonstrated strategies to address some of the most difficult issues facing health systems and purchasers including chronic disease management, obesity, provider performance measurement, transparency and rewards,” said Dennis White, senior vice president of Value-Based Purchasing for NBCH.
“Kaiser Permanente KP KIDS program is an in-depth assessment process designed for the special needs and challenges of children with weight problems,” said Joel D. Hyatt, MD, assistant medical director, Southern California Permanente Medical Group. “The program targets overweight children 5-12 years of age with a BMI at or above the 85th percentile with the goal of not only educating overweight children and their families in healthy lifestyle behaviors but also providing tools in preventing pediatric obesity.”
In 2004, statistics from the California Center for Public Health Advocacy indicated that the prevalence of overweight and unfit children in Panorama City was 35.6 percent and 51.3 percent, respectively. This alarming data motivated a multidisciplinary team at Kaiser Permanente Panorama City Medical Center to develop a comprehensive, family-based lifestyle improvement program, KP KIDS, to address the obesity problem faced by the community.”
I think that this is a very positive step encouraging fat loss muscle awareness from a young age.
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