A school-based weight-management program can be very useful in reaching large numbers of kids, a new study has said.
Researchers Craig A. Johnston, John P. Foreyt and Chermaine Tyler and their team is building upon one of their previous studies in which many of their Texas middle-school participants has been successful with managing their weight. The volunteers were mainly Hispanic children who were either overweight or at risk of becoming so.
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Statistics that the researchers reported for the 6-month study were based on 57 overweight kids who were given either a self- and parent-taught program or an intensive, instructor-led regimen.
For example, kids in the self-taught group spent time in study hall every week for the first 3 months of the investigation, reading a self-help, weight-management textbook for youngsters. Meanwhile, their peers in the instructor-led team spent four class periods a week outdoors, improving their physical fitness, with a fifth session each week-indoors-learning about nutrition, healthy eating, and behaviour-change skills essential for living an active lifestyle and making healthful food choices.
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Also, one and two years later, youngsters in the instructor-led team had significantly greater decreases in their body mass index, or BMI, than their self-taught counterparts.
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The findings of the research have appeared in the journal Obesity in 2009 and in Pediatrics in 2007.
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