New Meal Plan Plus Childhood Obesity

I gave a presentation at the local college on Friday about the problem, cause, and solutions to childhood obesity.  Some of the things we discussed were:

The problem:

• 16.9% of children ages 2-19 are obese.
• Obesity costs 150 Billion dollars per year to treat!
• Obesity kills more than 100,000 people per year
• 24-90% of adolescents who are obese become obese adults.

Possible solutions:

• Focus on behavior change rather than weight loss. Including behaviors such as:

There are programs I believe are doing a good job to bring awareness and change.  These include Let’s Move , and Let’s Go!

I like the message from Let’s Go.  They teach 5, 2, 1, 0

I really do believe awareness is helping! From 1980-2000 we saw an increase in childhood obesity from 5% – 15%. But in the last 10 years, it has remained around 15%.  Awareness is power.

On a lighter note, here is the new meal plan for this week

	Breakfast	Lunch	Snack	Dinner
Monday	Raspberry Peach Smoothies	Chicken Noodle Soup	Cucumbers and ranch	BBQ chicken with
Tuesday	Strawberry Banana Oatmeal	Layered Pea salad	Apples with peanut butter
Wednesday		Almond Butter and Jelly on Whole wheat bread	Banana Roll up	Chicken Fettuccini
Thursday	Tropical Smoothies (with pineapple and frozen strawberries)	Apple slices with Chicken corn and black bean salad		Lemon chicken with brown rice and broccoli
Friday	Omelets with salsa and cheese. Whole grain toast	Roasted Veggie sandwiches		Pork Roast with Rainbow Salad

We have loads of old printable meal plans on our archives page, including a printable of this one! Check it out.

Also if you want more.. check out our meal planning website!

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