Health: a pioneering center in Dunkirk helps overweight children and their parents

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FRANCE 3

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France 3 – I. Sabourault, A. Fischer, T. Gilardet, F. Fontaine

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A pioneering center in Dunkirk (Nord) offers to support overweight children and their parents in order to help them adopt good habits. Report with Eva, 12 and a half years old, and her mother.

Eva had exceeded 60 kilos at the age of nine. Since then, she has been fighting against her overweight in a pioneering center in Dunkirk (North). Here, we move and we have fun together with the parents. And above all, you learn good habits that will serve you for life. Psychologist, sports teacher, dietician: a course offered free of charge.

A change of habits

It’s fun thanks to Élodie’s findings Desfontainesthe dietitian, and her best ally, a certain “Monsieur Patate”. Egoes12 and a half years old, come seeing her every week for three years. There is no grand speech, but a maximum of concrete tips. To anyone time we not talking about weight or kilos. What counts is this famous corpulence curve presented that day to his mother. Within a few months, Egoes and his mother have set up new habits: vegetables, half the meat and smaller plates. For three years, under no circumstances have they missed their little outing twice a week.


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