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Fitness Facts
  • Since 1960, obesity has increased 54% in children 6-11 years old and 13% in children 12-17 years old.
  • The average American twelve-year old child today weighs 11.4 pounds more than a similar height twelve-year old child in 1973.
  • Today, one in four children is considered to be overweight with many researchers agreeing that childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the US.

Growing Up Fit is a weight management program specifically designed for children and their families. The Growing Up Fit program combines nutritional counseling and group exercise intervention and is offered in suburban and rural community locations. Growing Up Fit, LLC, formerly know as Family Fitness Matters, originated as a community based research and service project to evaluate outcome and feasibility of such an intervention. Outcomes and community support were overwhelmingly positive. Clinical results have demonstrated the effectiveness of our program.

The research associated with the Growing Up Fit program has been approved for publication in the Pediatric Physical Therapy Journal, a publication of the American Physical Therapy Association. Over the past five years, Growing Up Fit, LLC has worked with nearly 250 families or approximately 750 people. Our classes have run at full capacity and often times have needed to maintain a waiting list for subsequent program sessions.

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Growing Up Fit, LLC works closely with several insurance companies and HMO’s to offer this great program at little or no charge to you. Families who are not covered by one of these insurance companies may privately pay for the program. Additionally, scholarship funds are being pursued to reimburse families who demonstrate financial need. Contact us for additional information. Call today to find out more about what insurance companies cover this program, or simply click here for more information.

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