Monthly Archives: October 2013

Weight Control and Youth Illness Survey

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Poor academics, Child Obesity, and Chronic Illness have been associated with a wide variety of causes. The most popular appear to be the lack of physical activity participation and poor eating habits. Intimate Delights is conducting a short survey that takes less than five minutes, in order to gather more information about possible causes and to help present plausible solutions. Please take the time to complete the following survey. Your responses will be kept confidential.

Youth across the country are in a constant struggle with trying to eat right, keep good grades, and remain active in and out of school. In addition there have been ongoing issues such as chronic illnesses and obesity that continue to interfere with their efforts to conquer the battle and win the war.  If there are one or two main contributors for what could be causing the decline in academics, adding to the rise in obesity or encouraging the lack of physical activity participation, then gathering data from surveys such as this one could shed some light.

The Center’s for Disease Control, (CDC), suggests that children and adults should engage in at least one hour of physical activity everyday. Doing so could put a stop to the increase in youth health issues and activate better choices when it comes to choosing what foods to eat.

The main purpose of bringing awareness to the underlying causes of obesity, etc., is to help prevent deadly health issues from arising in the future and to encourage healthy eating habits so that our youth have a fair chance of exceling to amazing heights academically.

Erick A. Fisher, PHD., a Licensed Sports Psychologist Speaks Candidly

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Dr. Erick Fisher is a state of Georgia Licensed Clinical Psychologist with a private practice located in Lawrenceville, GA. He has been featured in the Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, and Cosmopolitan, to name a few; not to mention being featured on CNN Radio, Paging Dr. Gupta, HLN Radio, Fox 5, etc. In addition, He has two published books, “The Art of Managing Everyday Conflict: Understanding Emotions and Power Struggles,” and “The Art of Empowered Parenting: The Manual You Wish Your Kids Came With.”

Dr. Fisher, aka, Dr. E, has enabled countless adults, children, families and couples. He has helped them to originate positive relationships and outlooks on life as well. Bringing his message of power, empowerment, emotion, and the human spirit to the world is Fisher’s ultimate goal.

Fisher is a source on the topic of the effects of academic and social development between physically active and non-active youth because he also has minor in sports phycology, and because his expert opinion is widely respected.

A Professional Viewpoint on Child Obesity, Chronic Illness, Physical Inactivity and the Reasons Why from Robin Hamilton on Vimeo.

Chronic illness and childhood obesity have been blamed for many things such as poor parenting, bad eating habits, physical inactivity, etc. Although there are many contributing factors, sports psychology introduces a different approach as illustrated by Dr. Fisher. According to the Centers for Disease Control, (CDC), obesity now affects 17% of all children and adolescents in the United States – triple the rate from just one generation ago. Fisher discusses his theory behind why childhood obesity and chronic illness have a relationship with physical activity or the lack there of.

People born between the years of 1994 and 2004 have been labeled as generation, “Z.” or the lazy generation. In an article written on October 13, 2013 in the Huff Post entitled, “ Generation Z Teens Stereotyped As ‘Lazy and Unaware,’ Gen Z is often portrayed as being less engaged in politics; they have short attention spans and don’t care about the weighty issues that confront their generation and the nation; and they’re more interested in technology and celebrity than staying active in their communities and schools.

Could this be a direct result of not being physically active in sports or other after school activities?

Dr. Fisher offers some profound insight into his theory as to why generation Z may be behaving in this manner.

Although there is much speculation, many believe that being physically inactive or practicing poor eating habits supports a wide variety of negative behaviors that can explain academic under development, chronic illnesses, and child obesity.

Dr. Fisher believes there is a deeper explanation.