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This guide is a handy resource for anyone struggling with obesityespecially children and teens. Dr. Olga Vaca Durr offers actionable advice for teens and children who are fast approaching obesity but who want to learn how to turn their lives around and live a healthy lifestyle instead.Providing help for eating healthy and for getting physically active to meet the challenge of living a healthy life, Vaca Durr also explores statistics illustrating the severity of the problem of childhood obesity today, as well as detailed charts and graphs to support her research.Its Not about Childhood Obesity includes specifics on a variety of topics: Physical activity and fitness Statistics, data, and research on childhood obesity Potential effects of childhood obesityIt also presents advice for developing a plan to combat childhood obesity and creating a healthy for life lifestyle.Its Not about Childhood Obesity seeks to enable everyone to better understand this issue and the challenge that it presents today. By focusing on the effects of childhood obesity insures that any child can achieve a long and healthy life through physical fitness and activity and by adopting a diet of healthy foods.

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Publié par	Inspiring Voices
Date de parution	12 novembre 2012
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781462404117
Langue	English

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Copyright © 2012 by Olga Vaca Durr

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ISBN: 978-1-4624-0411-7 (e)
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2012921160

Inspiring Voices rev. date:11/08/2012
Contents
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
DISCLAIMER
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1:So What’s the Big Deal—Overall Statistics Regarding Childhood Obesity
CHAPTER 2: Physical Activity, Why Is it So Important?
CHAPTER 3: Physical Fitness
Chapter 4: Childhood Obesity Data and Research
4.1 Being or Not Being Physically Active
4.2 How Being Physically Fit Can Help You in School
4.3 How Do Those Around You Affect You?
CHAPTER 5: How All This Affects Me
5.1 How All This Affects M e … Physically
5.3 How All This Affects M e … Educationally
5.4 How All This Affects M e … Socially/Emotionally
CHAPTER 6: What Can I Do?
6.1 Adding Physical Activity to Your Daily Schedule
6.2 Our Caloric Intake
6.3 A Plan to Help Get Us on Track … Just for You!
6.3.1 Ways to Add Physical Activity
6.3.2 Grocery Store Field Trip
6.3.3 Finding the Time
6.3.4 What about Breakfast?
6.3.5 What about Your Shoes?
6.3.6 Junk Food and Sodas
CHAPTER 7: Balancing Your Scale
A FINAL WORD
AFTERWORD
CONCLUSION
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
APPENDICES
GLOSSARY
RESOURCES
REFERENCES

To Naomi Arriaga Vaca:
Thanks, Momma, for believing I could do things
I never thought I could even reach!

To George E. Peyrot, Jr.:
Thanks, George, for showing me running is not all that bad!

It’s about being healthy for life!

—H4L

PREFACE
Strangely enough, this book all started at a time when I weighed the most I have ever weighed in my life and was the least healthy. In 2007, I finally went back to college to finish a life goal, one I had started in 1999, but due to “life happening”—as I sometimes refer to it—I had to put my goal on a back burner. Then, in 2007, the back burner finally moved to the forefront of my life, and it was time to get off the fence and make my dreams become a reality. The dream, which was actually ignited by my Momma, was to get a doctorate. Completing a doctorate includes writing a dissertation, a really long paper full of research and statistics, reading a ton of articles, lots of deadlines, working hours on end with not much sleep, and an overabundance of stress. I know, it doesn’t sound like anything fun and exciting, but going into the challenge, I looked more at the end result, getting my doctorate, and that was enticing to me, at least enticing enough to dive on in again.
When you start a dissertation, you must have a topic, and usually by the time you finish your coursework, that topic has either been completely changed a few times or whittled down a great deal. From my very first semester, I knew my topic would be childhood obesity; I just was not certain what my variables were going to be. (Variables are used to measure outcomes.) As the journey started, I knew I wanted to do more on the topic and began giving presentations for parents on the topic of childhood obesity, which actually worked well in my job at that time as coordinator for parent and community involvement. For the next three years of college, I researched the topic of childhood obesity, read stories, found information, charts, etc. I finished my coursework one semester late (graduating July 31, 2010) but encountered a huge slough of roadblocks within those three years.
Yet, it was a time during those three years that caused the first spark of this book. In 2009, I was a speaker at a conference, and the title of my session was Are You Killing Your Kids? The conference was aimed toward parents, and my session specifically talked about childhood obesity rates and what parents can do to help. After I finished my session, I noticed a mother who had come in at the beginning of the session and was obviously very angry. When she walked in, she had a scowl on her face. She put her feet up on the chair in front of her and sat with her arms folded across her chest throughout the entire session. As the session concluded, I was shocked when she came up to talk to me. She waited until everyone was finished talking to me before she began her conversation, even after I made eye contact with her and asked how she was.
Finally, we had our conversation, which started something like this. She said, “Well, as you can see, I’m fat, my husband is fat, and at home, we have two fat boys.” She continued to tell me, “Both my husband’s parents and my parents are all fat.” Then she asked, “So what do we do?” For me, this was the eye-opening question—when you are fat and your parents are fat, how do you not raise fat children? It was then that I realized: if parents do not know how to be healthy, how will they ever be able to teach their children to be healthy?
At that moment, I knew I had to write a book for teenagers, young people, and kids who just wanted to learn how to be healthy for life. As an educator and a former teenager myself, I know firsthand how teens sometimes think our parents do not know the answer. Sometimes we just don’t want to listen to what they have to say, only to realize years later that maybe they did know. On the contrary, what if our parents really do not know or do not have all the answers? Then where do you go to find answers and get help? How do you learn to live a healthy life when no one around us knows either?
I refused to allow the slough of roadblocks that were either around me or within me to become my excuse for not finishing my goal and not getting this book written. Even worse, in addition to the slough of roadblocks during these three challenging years, I had gained weight, and my health was on a downhill slide, leading me on the road to obesity, with numerous negative medical effects. So, when I finally walked across that stage to collect the proof that I achieved my goal, my first priority was getting healthy for life and then starting my book, in that order. However, once again life happened. Nevertheless, this time, no more excuses. Today I am leading my journey toward being healthy for life, as are my children, my husband, some siblings, and some nieces and nephews!

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I would like to express my sincere appreciation and thanks to my husband, children, Daddy, and family members who encouraged my efforts in making this book a reality: thank you for the comments, concern, listening when I needed help, and your support.
Thank you to Dr. J. Austin Vasek for helping complete my first enormous task, which was the research for this book. Also, thank you to Dr. Randy Baca, Dr. Genie Jhnigoor, and Dr. Patti D. Ward for joining me as we completed that task.
Thank you to Jeannette Cannon for her pictures. Check her out on Facebook at jcannonphotography or jeannettecannonart@gmail .
Also, thank you to Jack Pike for his photography. Mr. Pike is a true American Hero, check him out on Facebook at Jack T. F. Pike.

DISCLAIMER
The information provided in It’s Not about Childhood Obesity; It’s about Being Healthy for Life! is intended as a general tool and reference for readers. The author is not rendering professional medical services, and the content is made available with this understanding. Although the author made every effort to provide current and accurate information, readers should be aware that the author accepts no responsibility for the accuracy and completeness of the material in this book and recommends consulting a doctor before making any major dietary or physical changes. Although the purpose of this book is to educate, the author shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused or suspected to be caused, either directly or indirectly, by the information contained in this book.

List of Abbreviations
BMI: Body mass index
CDC: Centers for Disease Control
DOB: Date of birth
HFZ: Healthy Fitness Zone
PE: physical education

INTRODUCTION
In 2007, I began college (hopefully for the last time), and in the course of a year, I had to take a multicultural education course. During the course, students were required to write a paper on discrimination, with specific topics approved by the professor before starting research. I told my professor I wanted to write about discrimination regarding obesity. She looked at me with a puzzled look on her face and asked me to