3 Rules Of Thumb To Reduce Childhood Obesity

Thursday, May 1, 2014 - 12:40 in Health & Medicine

There are three simple family-oriented rules of thumb to overcome childhood obesity. They basically involve limit setting to address the brain's "get more" drive strengthened through habitual over-consumption of temptations including highly caloric processed food, hyper-reality media and electronics, as well as excessive sitting. His 3 "rules" of living promote physical and mental health for children and parents for both treatment and prevention.  They are below, though the official - and slightly weirder - terms for them are farther down: 1) Limit highly caloric processed food2) Limit media and electronics3) Sit a lot less Kristopher Kaliebe, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at read more

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