may include limiting calorie-containing helping of food to vegetables only or getting more physical activity “a treatment plan driven by the child and the rest of the family drive stay motivated what to ask the doctor it's important to get your child to a doctor who can evaluate what steps to take whether dietary physical or even psychological get involved ask your doctor for help with spe- cific goals and behaviors two new vegetables per week for four weeks or trying one new vegetable three different ways in the next two weeks new habits take several months to few weeks builds momentum." prout suggests parents examine the child's social environments to see screen time or sleep that can be modi- schedule for your child without screens and make time for daily active play for younger children and weekly exercise as a family "obesity management is a mara- on building healthy habits that can be maintained and praise those efforts." ask your doctor these questions to lay the support my child and be health? how can our family support the changes? child experiencing medical or mental health problems that may be weight related? do we need any additional screening tests? we start? do we need to see other specialists? how often should we follow up with you? my still-growing child be losing weight?-dlm or hiding behaviors.” the physician may also assess the family's mental health taylor says treatment plans provide changes and developing healthy habits plans are more than the number on the ing day-to-day functioning," she says an effective treatment need not incorporated over time will help most body mass index the words "overweight" and "obese" depend on the body growth curve that measures weight over height squared for between the 5th and the 85th percentile is considered healthy; greater than the 85th but less than the 95th percentile is overweight; and the 95th percentile or greater caution that it's important to rephrase how we describe weight so people feel respected rather "a child with obesity" rather than "an obese child."-dlm
