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Let's Get Healthy!
Play Well. Live Well.
Resources for Pediatric Obesity
Let’s Get Healthy! is a new, 10 week healthy-living program, developed specifically for kids age 9 to 13, that educates families on an all-around healthy, active lifestyle.
By partnering child with parent, families learn to participate as a team and stay motivated through their journey into wellness.
A Team Approach
Let’s Get Healthy! is designed to get results in a whole new way. We use a multidisciplinary approach, offering guidance, insight and education. Each instructor on our team is committed to impacting your child through engaging messages to reshape their thinking regarding food, nutrition and exercise.
Knowledge is Power
With an emphasis on behavior modification, participants develop a healthy lifestyle by increasing their knowledge on various topics, such as:
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Behavior Modification |
Physical Activity |
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Participants learn about mindful eating, including:portion sizes, label reading, fast food and snack choices, quick and healthy meals, smart grocery shopping and maintaining a food journal.
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Goal training includes rethinking, setting, maintaining and celebrating gsuccesses. Other conversations and training offer fresh ideas on staying motivated, body image, self-esteem, emotional eating, stress and time management, personal responsibility and accountability, peer influence, bullying and coping skills. |
Exercise has been proven to burn calories and keep off weight. We offer a variety of fun and affordable ways to exercise on through use of therabands, jump ropes, yoga, zumba, relay races and circuits. We also offer great tips on how to maintain an active lifestyle. |
Easy As 5-2-1-0
Henry Ford Department of Pediatrics created and easy-to-remember educational tool called 5-2-1-0, which offers guidelines for each day, including:
5 fruits and vegetables
2 hours or less of screen time
1 hour or more of physical activity
0 sugar-added beverages
Begin Your Journey to Health Today!
Learn more about Let’s Get Healthy! at our Family Fun Day on Saturday, July 13, at Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital. To register for this event fill out the Family Fun Day Registration.
Interested?
Please complete our online information request form or call (313) 874-6653.
Print off your very own 5-2-1-0 Tracker and start monitoring daily activity and nutrition! This tracker helps kids and families eat healthy and be active.
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