NUTRITION INNOVATORS, INC.
| DORIAN L. DRISCOLL, MS, LDN, RD REGISTERED & LICENSED DIETITIAN |
| Health & Wellness, Nutrition, Counseling, Weight Loss Sports Nutrition, Trim Kids |
| Lafayette LA 70506 |
| Phone 337 654-9528 Fax 337 993-0234 |
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| Excerpts from: Surgeon general lauds family weight-loss program by Michelle Hunter, The Times-Picayune Thursday May 08, 2008, 2:55 PM PICTURE NOT AVAILABLE:. Donald Stout/The Times-PicayuneU.S. Surgeon General Steven Galson presents an award to, left to right, Rachel Draughon, 13, David Vial, 9, and Gabriella Villavicencio, 8, who participated in a weight-loss program at the East Jefferson Family YMCA. At rear is Darrell Johnson, YMCA president. When the Villavicencio family shops for groceries, it's 8-year-old Gabriella who dutifully scans food labels and guards Mom's shopping cart against products with too many calories, carbohydrates or grams of sugar. Gabriella gained her nutritional savvy by attending the YMCA's Trim Kids program, a family-centric weight management program that acting U.S. Surgeon General Steven Galson honored in a ceremony Thursday morning in Metairie. He presented the program with a Healthy Youth for a Healthy Future Award, calling it a kid- and parent-friendly focus on lifetime weight management. "This is the kind of program that really excites me," Galson said at a ceremony at the East Jefferson Family YMCA. Trim Kids is a weight-loss program created 18 years ago by Melinda Sothern, a professor of exercise physiology at LSU Health Sciences Center. Darrell Johnson, president and CEO of the YMCA of Greater New Orleans, pushed to implement the program in five local branches. Through weekly meetings, nutrition lessons, exercise sessions and visits with behavior counselors, children learn how to control their weight and make healthy lifestyle choices. These kinds of programs are crucial, Galson said. "We're predicting that for the first time this generation of youth may not live as long as the last, because of childhood obesity," he said. The number of overweight children ages 6 to 11 in the United States has tripled since 1980. In Louisiana, 17 percent of children were overweight in 2005, more than the national average of 14 percent. Trim Kids' directors hope to reverse that trend. They're doing it with children such as David Vial, 9, of Luling. He and his family joined the program because they were concerned about a history of diabetes. Now in his ninth week in the program, David thinks before he eats, his parents said. When friends chowed down on hamburgers and fries during a recent trip to a fast-food restaurant, Vial chose a healthier option. "I got a grilled chicken sandwich," said David, who keeps a journal of his food intake and daily activities. . . . Parental involvement is mandatory. . . . The program is also available at Nutrition Innovators, Inc. in Lafayette. For more information about Trim Kids, call Dorian Driscoll at 337 993-0234 or email. |