- posted: Apr. 02, 2024
Our four talented, skilled, experienced, and licensed pediatric doctors direct and see young patients for childhood obesity at the Sacramento Valley Pediatric office in Sacramento, CA, and the Pediatric Medical Center of Sacramento in Elk Grove, CA.
Our doctors provide outstanding services, including dietary and nutrition counseling, helping to meet the needs of America's obesity epidemic with adults and children. Obesity has been and remains a health challenge throughout the United States.
Understanding and Managing Childhood Obesity
The Sacramento Valley Pediatric Medical Group in Sacramento, CA, and the Pediatric Medical Center of Sacramento in Elk Grove, CA, agree that proper nutrition and eating habits can stop obesity. Parents must lead the way, teaching their children better health through nutrition.
Parents must realize that without excellent childhood nutrition, children become ill quickly, and chronic disease processes take hold of their young bodies. An obese child can be as malnourished as an emaciated-looking child.
When children do not eat nutritionally, the following can happen:
- Abnormal growth and development
- Decreases in immunity
- Weakening bones and teeth
- Poorer functioning vital organs
Our parents must become nutritionally informed about how to feed their children and instill in their minds what good nutrition is all about. Our dietary and nutritional counseling programs provide the following to parents and children.
- Individualized weight and BMI assessment
- Physical assessment
- Teaching specific special needs dietary requirements
- Evaluation of oral, motor, and sensory skills
- Identify dietary health risks
- Teach feeding techniques
- Provide special needs feeding equipment recommendations
- Reprogram at-home dietary support
- Ongoing monitoring of our dietary program
Our nutritional programs make parents aware that children develop issues with high cholesterol disorders, diabetes, food allergies, food intolerances, problems with growth and development, high blood pressure, and a variety of digestive system issues due to obesity, secondary to consistently making poor food choices.
Tips for Parents to Help Children Eat Nutritionally Well
- Keep food exciting, i.e., color, texture
- Introduce fresh fruits and vegetables daily
- Avoid empty carbohydrates (children develop a taste for sugar because parents introduce sugar into their child's diet)
- Provide plenty of whole grains (bread, cereals, fruits)
Fighting Obesity One Child at a Time!
Call and schedule a nutritional counseling appointment with any of our four esteemed doctors at the Sacramento Valley Pediatric Medical Group in Sacramento, CA, at 916-681-1130 and the Pediatric Medical Center of Sacramento in Elk Grove, CA, at 916-714-9777.