Whats the best way to encourage my child to be more active?
Here’s the short answer: You’ve got to move to lose! People who want to lose weight must expend more energy than they take in. To maintain weight loss, energy expended must match energy consumed. Unfortunately, for your overweight child, he or she probably has a biology that makes the management of this energy balance quite difficult. Overweight people have bodies that resist weight loss by being very efficient at storing food taken in and stingy about expending energy. Nonetheless, with lots of attention, the right information, and considerable dedication, even resistant biologies can be tamed. For example, did you know that by simply standing up you expend 20% more energy than sitting down? As soon as we start moving, we double or triple the energy expended when sitting down. This means that overweight children don’t have to begin training for triathlons to lose weight. A walk through a book store or to the corner to buy a paper will contribute to health, in contrast to playing video
