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:20 – 2:42  Families participating in SuperSized Kids group meeting

2:42 – 3:50   Families receiving health screenings as part of 8-week program

3:51 – 5:43  Families working out

5:44 – 6:11 Video of SuperSized Kids book (wide, tight, and sorting through
 pages)

6:12 – 6:34 Florida Hospital exteriors

6:35 – 8:12 Lowe family B-ROLL (SuperSized Kids 8-week program participants) 

8:13 – 8:52 Samantha Lowe, 10-year old participant 

“If you just sit on the couch like a potato you’re going to get wider and wider and if you exercise you’re going to get skinnier.”

“I jump rope more I run more I play basketball more”

8:53 – 9:08   Kyle Lowe, 13-year old participant

“I’ve been eating fruits and vegetables and less red meat, and I’ve been exercising by swimming both at home and at the gym”

9:09 – 10:13  Mary Lowe, mother

“We have a weight problem for one and on my husband’s side of the family there’s a lot of heart attacks, strokes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, arteries there’s a lot and I just wanted better for my kids”

“As a family, yeah, before it was just on and off as a person you know you try to do this you try to diet and it was hard you always go back to the same ways, so with so much in his family I thought it was just a good time to do something for my kids”

“I think we did spend more time together and I think the rewarding part is that we lost weight together as a family, and we will continue to do this for our health and our future.”

10:14 – 10:39  Phillip Lowe

“39 pounds”

“I am very proud how much weight we lost together that we were excercising, and instead of being a couch potato family we became more of an active family”

10:40 – 14:58 Sherri Flynt, Florida Hospital Dietian and author of SuperSized Kids

“ I know the hospital is very interested in this topic childhood obesity and there is a need to have more information out there for parents for families to know what to do and resources to turn to help with this.”

“Just helping families to understand that healthy eating is very basic, fruits, vegetables, its o.k. to eat whole grains, there not going to add to the problem and then portion size of course is very important big part of all of this issue is understanding what a portion of a food is and how to monitor that so even though it is a good food calories can still count so you need to be very careful about this. And moving, we need to move more and families need to do this together to support each other, its hard for a child who is six years old to do this on there own, they just can’t so families have to pull together.”

“It is very important for families to eat together, the research is showing that not only do children do better in school they tend not to have as many substance abuse problems, their nutrition is also better, what is interesting to me is that families that eat together on a regular basis not necessarily every day but as many days as possible that when the children are away from home they make better food choices.”

“What we deal with nutrition is looking at and encouraging families to eat food meals together, giving them ideas of what is a quick meal that’s still healthy and nutritious you know moderate in calories because a lot of quick meals tend to be high in calories and fat, of course convenience that is the big issue, families will do what is convenient so Dr. Larrimore and I have tried to pull together a lot of very convenient ideas for healthy eating.  And then looking at what does your child need?  Protein, fats, fruits and vegetables, whole grains, encouraging families to try lots of different foods not to just get stuck in a rut, and we know most families have about 10 meals that they eat over and over again so kind of encouraging families to push the envelope with that and try some new things maybe even trying going vegetarian once or twice a week because of the research showing that plant foods definitely are more healthy.”

“Also just helping parents understand what are healthy snacks, how do fruit juices relate to fruit drink fit into this whole picture and just explain the differences there but really just de-bonk some of the information out there that makes it very confusing for families and they just throw their hands up and say oh we are just going to have chips don’t know what else to do so we try to give them lots of ideas that are quick and easy that even kids can put together themselves.”

“We know breakfast is very important especially when it comes to childhood obesity, it plays a role in that, a really quick thing is toast, warm up some applesauce, put peanut butter on the toast and put warm applesauce over that, your getting a whole grain use whole grain bread, you get protein from the peanut butter, and your applesauce is a fruit”

“It takes almost a month about 27 days to develop a new habit so be easy on yourself, if the second or third day and you slip and its tough its o.k. just get back on the horse sort of speak and just keep making those changes one day at a time.”

14:59 – 21:10   Dr. Walt Larimore M.D., author SuperSized Kids

“You know the last 25 years I’ve been a family physician that has helped families overcome problem after problem but we’ve never faced a problem with families or with culture like the epidemic of childhood obesity”

“Well were seeing in our offices now diseases that we used to only see in adults, but now we are seeing them in children, diabetes, hypertension, arthritis, stroke and I can go on and on and on, these diseases that obesity cause we now see in our children and this is an epidemic that is not only treatable but it is preventable.”

“The average obese teenager has a life expectancy not of 60 years, not of 50 years but of 46 years not only is the quantity of life reduced by obesity but the quality of life is reduced not just physically but emotionally, relationally, and spiritually.   We as parents have the opportunity and the privilege to help our children to be protected from this epidemic.”

“What families don’t need is another book that is this thick telling them a thousand things to do.  So what we have taught families to do in this book is to pick and choose between the things they know that they can do to see success, we encourage them to take small steps frequently and successfully to help and treat this epidemic.”

“We know that obesity leads to heart disease, high blood pressure, and stroke, we know that obesity leads to diabetes and all the complications that come with diabetes.  We know that is leads to arthritis because of the weight that kids have to carry.  In our program we basically look at three legs to the stool to help families fix themselves.  One is obviously better nutrition.  We are not talking about changing everything at once but taking small simple steps that can make huge differences.  The second leg of that stool is better sleep.  We know that the better sleep a child gets the less to be obese.  The third one that everyone knows about some people call is exercise but we call it physical activity because even small increments of physical activity can help prevent this epidemic.”

“Well the research that connects sleep and obesity is just baby infantile research it is just in the beginning.  We know that there is two hormones one is called leptin one is called grellin.  We know that one of those hormones causes us to eat more and one causes us to eat less.  As a child or adult gets less sleep those hormones get out of balance so the child or adult wants to eat more and does eat more.  So the more sleep a child gets the less likely they are to be obese.”

“In SuperSized Kids we encourage families to do things together to have fun with activity not just sitting in front of the T.V.  like a walk or throwing the frees bee, or shooting some hoops, but the good news is that you don’t need to do large increments of exercise but even small exercise small little activities will build up and that’s good news.”

“I think that when we look at the epidemic of childhood obesity that those of us that are parents have to look in the mirror.  Because the responsibility of preventing that epidemic lays in our lap.  The responsibility for that epidemic lays in our lap.  Now yes there is a lot that schools and restaurants and government can do and we talk about that in our book but first and foremost it starts with the parents learning that couch potatoes aren’t born they are raised.  So what can we do as parents to help our children avoid the epidemic of becoming SuperSized?  That is what this book is all about, it’s full of good news it’s full of easy tips and we hope is will be applicable to millions of families.”

“You know most everyone has heard of the arguments of social security that its in trouble now when it will get in big trouble people argue about but we know its in trouble, we know that the Medicare system is even in more trouble and it is more likely to go bankrupt quickly but both of those systems could be swamped by the epidemic of childhood obesity.  The reason is that children that are obese become teenagers that are obese; teenagers that are obese become adults that are obese.  They are more likely to be disabled, more likely not to work, they are more likely not to contribute to the system, and they are more likely to draw more money from the system.  So we see this wave of childhood obesity as literally forming the perfect storm to wreck Medicare and social security.  We need to do something about it and quicker rather than later.”

“There is much that you can do, there is no more powerful role model that a little boy or little girl has than his mom or his dad.  So we want to wake moms and dads up we want to educate them to the problem, we want to let them know that they are part of the solution.  And then give them practical tips on how they can make a difference not only in their children but in their children’s children and their grandchildren because this is a multi-generational problem.”

21: 11    Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer

“Orlando is known as the kid’s fun capital of the whole world and we’re hoping for it to be known as one of the healthiest cities for kids and adults in the whole world.”

“We have declared it children’s obesity awareness month in the city of Orlando and we want to focus on the issue of childhood obesity.”