O22 BOUNCE: A Comprehensive Healthy Lifestyle Summer Program for Minority Adolescents and Parents

A Healthy Lifestyle Program for Latino Daughters and Mothers: The BOUNCE Overview and Process Evaluation

Background: Few family-based healthy lifestyle programs for Latinos have been conducted, especially family programs targeting mother-daughter dyads. Purpose: To assess the acceptability and feasibility of the Behavior Opportunities Uniting Nutrition Counseling and Exercise (BOUNCE) program designed for Latino mother-daughter pairs. Methods: 92 participants (46 mother-daughter pairs) were recrui...

Results from a Pilot Translational Health and Wellness Based Summer Program in Minority Adolescents

Supporting parents of preschool children in adopting a healthy lifestyle

BACKGROUND Childhood obesity is a public health epidemic. In Canada 21.5% of children aged 2-5 are overweight, with psychological and physical consequences for the child and economic consequences for society. Parents often do not view their children as overweight. One way to prevent overweight is to adopt a healthy lifestyle (HL). Nurses with direct access to young families could assess overwei...

The "healthy lifestyle guide pyramid" for children and adolescents.

INTRODUCTION Increasing evidence demonstrates that risk factors for chronic diseases are established during childhood and adolescence. Consensus about the need to increase prevention efforts makes the adoption of a healthy lifestyle seem desirable from early childhood onwards. After reviewing educational tools for children and adolescents aimed at promoting a healthy lifestyle, it was recognize...

Workshops on healthy lifestyle to adolescents.

National strategies are currently being implemented across the UK to deal with the rapid decline in lifestyle with special focus on the areas of smoking, drug and alcohol abuse, and sexually transmitted infections. The responsibility for this in the UK lies with NHS health promotion teams. In South Africa, although health promotion is a directorate within the Social Sector Cluster within the Pr...