It's Not about Childhood Obesity: It Is about Being Healthy for Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781462404124)

This guide is a handy resource for anyone struggling with obesity-especially children and teens. Dr. Olga Vaca Durr offers actionable advice for teens and children who are fast approaching obesity but who want to learn how to turn their lives around and live a healthy lifestyle instead.

Providing help for eating healthy and for getting physically active to meet the challenge of living a healthy life, Vaca Durr also explores statistics illustrating the severity of the problem of childhood obesity today, as well as detailed charts and graphs to support her research.

It's Not about Childhood Obesity includes specifics on a variety of topics:

- Physical activity and fitness
- Statistics, data, and research on childhood obesity
- Potential effects of childhood obesity

It also presents advice for developing a plan to combat childhood obesity and creating a "healthy for life" lifestyle.

It's Not about Childhood Obesity seeks to enable everyone to better understand this issue and the challenge that it presents today. By focusing on the effects of childhood obesity insures that any child can achieve a long and healthy life through physical fitness and activity and by adopting a diet of healthy foods.