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Health Care Crisis/ Epidemic
California is
facing an urgent health crisis!
Nearly 60 percent of all
Californians are overweight or
obese and more than 30 percent of
California’s children are
at-risk of becoming
obese.
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Devastating Effects of Being
Overweight
The devastating
effects of being overweight on
our children’s physical,
mental, and emotional health are
frightening. BACTK is an
established medically managed
family-based program devoted to
helping children and teens with
weight problems.
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Healthy Eating and
Activity
The primary goal of
a lifestyle based program is
healthy eating and activity that
is realistic and achievable in
today’s world, not the
achievement of ideal body
weight.
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Skills for Changing Behavior
To this end, we
emphasize the skills necessary to
change behavior and to maintain
healthy changes that will result
in life long physical, mental,
and emotional health.
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Recent Articles
Jews
Not Exempt from Childhood Obesity
Epidemic
Jewish Federation of Silicon Valley
January 2010
Opinion:
Bill to return PE to schools(in the US)
will help prevent obesity
Special to the San Jose Mercury
News
December 15, 2009
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