With the program “Obeldicks” there has long been an age-Weightloss program for obese children. First study results when tested with 60 children who were on average 11 years old, showed that the success rate 6 months after study entry was 86%.
Obeldicks to help obese children to reduce their long-term weight and have more fun in motion. Unlike weight loss programs for adults, to be achieved in Obeldicks weight loss by the natural growth of children. So the goal is only once a Gewichtsstabilisation, so that the extra pounds to grow gradually. More than 400 children and young people have now participated in Obeldicks and most managed to maintain their weight long term. “The success rate at the end of the training is 71 percent,” says Dr. Thomas Reinher, the initiator of the project. However, the success is measured primarily by whether the participants can apply the long term at home what they have learned in the training: Three years after the training were currently at least 67 percent of all children maintain their weight.
How does Obeldicks?
In Obeldicks meet children aged 4 to 16 years, 6 months of time on dates once or twice a week in the pediatric ward. Meet girls and boys separately in the same age groups at the clinic for half a year together practicing exercise, eating habits, frustration control and nutrition. The parents and families of participating children can get at parents’ evenings and individual advice and tips to help their children. Moreover, there are also parents meetings where stands of experience with cooking recipes, weighing and sport motivation in the foreground. At the beginning of each Obeldicks-course is a thorough medical examination of the child. This possible diseases to be detected lead to obesity. Sometimes seen in this investigation that the cause of obesity is a psychological problem, such as a trauma from violence or abuse experience. In this case, the child is hospitalized before Obeldicks program on the station of the psychosomatic Child and Adolescent Clinic. Obeldicks also the program itself is designed so that the children only for the duration of the training unit must say a few hours of one to two days per week in the hospital.
How can parents be supported by Obeldicks?
Obesity is a health risk that children may carry around their entire lives. The situation itself is stressful not only for the child but also for the parents who often do not know how they can help their child. Slimming groups such as Weight Watchers or powder diets are not suitable for children and very unhealthy. Therefore, the Children’s Hospital has dates in cooperation with the University of Witten / Herdecke nutrition courses designed specifically for children, providing healthy, varied diet as delicious and easy to learn. When cooking together the children are taught a traffic light system for various foods on which they can follow later. The color red stands for unhealthy, fatty and sugary food, while displaying green foods such as fruits and vegetables. Because dietary changes alone will save only half as many pounds, is the movement therapy is another module of Obeldicks. Here the children a new body awareness and self-confidence is to be conveyed so that they can romp and play again at the feel comfortable in their skin. Moreover, the behavioral training, in which the children should learn that one of frustration and boredom can fight differently than with chocolate.
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