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Dietary approaches to healthy weight management for adolescents: the New Moves model.

Year: 2008

Type: review

Abstract: This article describes the dietary component of New Moves, a school-based obesity-prevention program for adolescent girls. New Moves is a multicomponent intervention that integrates nutrition, social support, and physical activity sessions within an all-girls physical education high school class. New Moves also includes individual counseling sessions that use motivational interviewing techniques, follow-up group lunch meetings, and parent outreach activities. The nutrition component focuses on avoiding dieting and unhealthy weight-control behaviors and adopting lifelong healthy eating behaviors such as increasing fruit and vegetable intake, decreasing sweetened beverage intake, eating breakfast daily, and paying attention to internal signs of hunger and satiety.

Source: PubMed

Authors: Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, Colleen Freeh Flattum, Mary Story, Shira Feldman, Christine A Petrich

Institution: University of Minnesota

Language: English

Topic: Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDGs: Good health and well-being, Zero hunger

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

Award: New Moves Obesity Prevention Among Adolescent Girls