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National Children's Health

Jimmy and Megan beat childhood obesity in less than six months

Listen to the experts in the field and they almost unanimously agree that childhood obesity is an incredibly complex problem that’s taken...
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Childhood Obesity Prevention and the 21st Century Rabbit Hole

As a former physical educator and a normal human being, my life experiences have led me to the conclusion that obese kids are unable to do pull ups...
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How the Five Stars saved big bucks on health insurance premiums

Recently, a group of five MLB stars (who will remain unnamed) formed a small marketing company. They called their company, “Five Stars, Inc....
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How a consistent and structured daily summer schedule benefits ADHD children

  • ADHD and Summer
  • April 24, 2012
As each warm sunny spring day grows longer, the daffodils grow taller, and bumble bees are buzzing away many children are anxiously waiting for...
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Motivation: Intrinsic VS Extrinsic Valuing of Exercise

What do you do on a beautiful day, in your leisure time, when you’re free to choose what ever it is that you want to do? At the top of my son...
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Re-framing childhood obesity prevention and igniting the motivational flames

When framing an issue you’re basically deciding what’s important (that goes inside the frame and gets attention) and what’s...
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History’s only "one variable formula" undermines childhood obesity progress

  • Childhod Obesity Prevention
  • March 27, 2012
The formula for Body Mass Index, a.k.a. BMI is “body weight divided by height squared times 703 (BW/Ht. squared X 703).” The...
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Insufficient science? Oh really?

On several occasions I’ve had the privilege of addressing academicians in an attempt to make the case for a functional solution (FORE) to...
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Prove it! Show me the evidence!

Obese kids are unable to do lots of things that kids of normal weight can do, and one of those things is conventional pull ups. In that light, one...
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One pull up, once a week for life means no obesity, ever!!

If you do at least one pull up,* once each week for the rest of your life the odds of you ever experiencing obesity, a.k.a. America’s number...
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