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It is always better to lose weight through proper exercise, while keeping the daily recommended calorie intake intact. Bernstein however rubbishes the claims and argues that the child gets enough calories that are released from the burnt up fat. Experts disagree and go on to point out that a rapid weight loss of four or five pounds per week would decrease the metabolic rate of the child, thus making regain more likely.
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You spend your day worrying about every calorie your son consumes, dreading every bag of potato chips he buys, trying fruitlessly to convince him to exercise daily – if your son is one of the 1.6 million overweight children in Canada, this situation would be familiar to you. At such a juncture, the question then is what are your options if you want your son to lead a healthy life? If your son is below the age of ten, he is too young for Weight Watchers. So you decide to try your luck in the gleaming, scary confines of Dr. Bernstein Health and Diet Clinic. Though the fact that a boy lost 52 pounds in just three-and-a-half month inspires confidence, what worries you, is the fact that your little boy would be administered 3 vitamin-B shots a week and would have to be under a strict diet that leaves no room for mistakes!
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In addition, various factors come into play when a child needs to lose weight. One has to keep in mind that there are various cultures, mental health issues, family issues, and so on that come into play and as such, one must set very modest, realistic goals if one needs to avoid disappointment. One needs to agree however, that it is a lot better to have a 30% success rate rather than a zero, better to lose10 pounds and keep it off, rather than lose 50 pounds and then regain it as soon as the child id off the diet. Indeed as Meloff aptly puts it, we have a true success story when the kid has been rightly educated to make a healthy lifestyle change.
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Nevertheless, success stories are not hard to find. Sandy Alvarez from Fredericton, was yet another worried mom, who realized very early on that her 75-pound five-year-old kid had a problem. He asked for food all the time, and though the family doctor had restricted snacks, nothing seemed to help. The fact that the family had three balanced meals a day, along with healthy juices, skimmed milk and lots of water, did not do anything to curb Mike, her son’s weight. To make matters worse for the anxious mother, a local pediatrician told her that Mike would always remain fat!
TrimKids from ediets.com is a web-based diet plan that might look into, while books are available from pariplan.com and slimkids.com. However, without the supervision of a professional, things could be unsafe. Keeping in mind the economic constraints that the parents face, professionals like Gary Goldfield have begun to offer some Internet services to selected patients, though he himself agrees that such online fixes are less effective than a personal one-on-one session.
‘Weight Watchers’ has begun to develop a commercially viable 12-week family program where coaches and pediatrics would teach parents about healthy food option and activities. The focus of the program deals less with weight loss and more on growing into a healthy weight. The basic tenants of the program are laid down in the book Weight Watchers Family Power: 5 Simple Rules for a Healthy-Weight Home.
