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Food, Fun n’ Fitness: Designing healthy lifestyles for today’s youth emphasizes the importance of healthy lifestyle habits for children, adolescents & their families. Unfortunately, childhood obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease - & eating disorders - continue to rise amongst today’s youth. Today’s adolescents deserve a solid foundation to a healthy lifestyle! Food, Fun n’ Fitness provides a wealth of information, based on scientifically sound research, along with a sensible & practical approach to healthy living. Food, Fun n’ Fitness provides realistic solutions to help healthcare professionals & parents: *Raise healthy children & adolescents in a not-so-healthy world *Understand the appropriate nutrient needs for each stage of childhood development *Immunize today’s youth from the media assaults on their self-esteem & help them become confident in their own bodies *Develop practical age-appropriate fitness routines *Make healthy eating & physical fitness fun for people of all ages! About Dr. Mary C Friesz Mary C Friesz, PhD, RDN, CDCES is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, a Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist and a Certified Exercise Instructor with over 25 years of experience in the health and fitness industry. She received her BS degree in Nutrition from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, her MS in both Nutrition and Exercise Physiology from Columbia University's Teacher's College, and her PhD in Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine from Northcentral University. Dr Mary has devoted much of her career to providing nutrition guidance and lifestyle counseling to individuals suffering from diabetes, pre-diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity, eating disorders and a host of other nutrition-related conditions. Her personal struggle with childhood obesity and the abyss of eating disorders carved the path to her professional passion to help individuals of all a