Table 1.

Recommended behavioral strategies: promoting healthy weight for children

1) Increase time of moderate and vigorous physical activity to 60 minutes of age-appropriate activity on most days of the week.15

2) Decrease inactive or sedentary time to less than 2 hours of TV or screen time.16

3) Modify food consumption to include more high nutritive value foods such as 5 or more servings of fruits and vegetables and 6 servings of whole grain products daily.17

4) Consume less low-nutritive foods such as sugar-sweetened beverages18, 19 and high calorie snack foods, and fast food.20,21

5) Eat breakfast daily22 and eat dinner together regularly.23, 24