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Success Stories

Live Light Live Right partners with Crunch Fitness for our Summer Fitness Challenge

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Live Light Live Right has partnered with Crunch Fitness, the Crown Heights location in Brooklyn, for our Summer Fitness Challenge. Crunch Fitness has incorporated their “Sweat School” into the exercise portion of our fitness program. The Sweat School is a one–hour class taught by a Crunch Fitness personal trainer that includes; circuit training, pound, obstacles course, running and lots of fun fitness activities. Our LLLR children are participating in this program twice a week, in addition to working with our trainer, Ebony, in the park playing basketball and running. The children are enjoying the program at Crunch Fitness and are looking forward to it every week. Live Light Live Right hopes to continue our relationship with Crunch Fitness and create a long-term program with them to work together to fight childhood obesity.

Live Light Live Right receives a grant from We Are All Brooklyn Leading By Giving Committee

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Live Light Live Right is honored for being the recipient of the We Are All Brooklyn Leading By Giving Committee’s 2015 grant.

The We Are All Brooklyn Fellowship closing ceremony was on June 16, 2015 at 6:30pm. The ceremony was held at the Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, John Jay School of Criminal Justice, CUNI, located at 860 West 11th Avenue, New York, NY 10019.

Their support of the Live Light Live Right program was special to us because of the commitment we all have to the community of Brooklyn.

Live Light Live Right Summer Bike Program

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July 25th and it will run through August 29th from 9:30am to 11:30am. We will leave on out biking adventure from CAMBA Beacon, corner of Linden Blvd & Van Siclen Ave (Bus B83 and Subway 3 to Van Siclen and a 4 block walk to our location)

This is a free program from our children. We will:

  • Master Bike Safety Skill
  • Take group bike rides to discover the neighborhood
  • Learn teamwork with other cyclists
  • Bikes, Helmuts, trained leaders and FUN is all provided.

We want to thank our partner Bike NY for working with us to make this happen. If you are interested in being a part of this amazing program. Please call us at 718-240-8125.

LLLR Bike Club Flyer 2015

Bariatric Surgery in Adolescents: What you want to know.

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Adolescents have unique physical and psychosocial issues related to obesity and require special care. It is often difficult for these adolescents to manage their nutritional needs, exercise, school and their mental health. Recently there have more opportunities for adolescents with severe obesity (over 300lbs) that meet specific criteria, and continuously struggle with their weight to have special weight loss surgery( Read the latest review).

The first approach is the holistic method, which is what we are LLLR strive to give our youth, but if we find they are really struggling and are committed to their weight loss, we are evaluating them to see if weight loss surgery is a safe option for them. It is not a quick fix but if adequately prepared with family support the adolescent can lose a significant amount of weight over a period of one to two years with improvements in blood pressure, cholesterol, sleep apnea and diabetes.

Our LLLR team can evaluate, prepare and refer adolescents with severe obesity that may require weight loss surgery. Columbia Presbyterian and Brookdale offer informational sessions that can be arranged for adolescents meeting the criteria and the surgery is covered by insurance. Live Light Live Right will be offering group sessions with peer support from patients that have had the surgery with great success.

These adolescents can share their experience of what to expert during the total process. If you would like to find out more please contact Dr. Dhuper’s office at 718-240-5857 to set up an appointment for further evaluation.

2015 Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting

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Live Light Live Right was honored to present our research at the Annual Meeting for Pediatric Academic Societies in April.  We presented on topics such as, increasing prevalence of severe obesity in Brooklyn, Fitness levels in severe obesity, parental readiness to attend an obesity program for their children and other important issues related to childhood obesity.

To learn more about our research, Abstracts accepted at PAS and ESPR-1

Efficacy and Sustainability Evaluation of PATH, a Childhood Obesity Program

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In NYC, over 20% of elementary school aged children are obese, but the burden is greater in populations of color and economically disadvantaged areas of NYC. We propose a pilot study to evaluate a 6-week intensive lifestyle modification program designed for parents of obese children (5-12 years of age), called Parents as Teachers and Healers (PATH). PATH is a novel pilot program of Live Light Live Right (LLLR), a comprehensive childhood obesity management program serving North Central Brooklyn since 2003. LLLR offers a multi-level, integrated care model with four key components: medical screening/treatment, nutrition education, behavioral counseling, and referral to supervised physical fitness. Continue reading →

Summer Clean Your Diet

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Summer has arrived, and with longer days and warmer weather comes a new crop of fresh produce. It is a good time to “summer clean” your diet and start introducing the summertime fruits and veggies that incorporate the jewels of summer.

If you are tired of apples, bananas and root vegetables, there are some nice summer produce choices readily available. Brightly-colored produce making more of an appearance at our grocery stores or farmer’s markets include apricots, strawberries, asparagus, cherries and more. The more colorful the fruit or vegetable, the more vitamins and minerals it has.

Check out what local produce is in season by using the following link.

In-season produce reaps the most nutritional value so here’s what to look for in the produce aisle or at the local farmers’ market.

Continue reading →

Live Light Live Right Joins AmazonSmile

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Live Light Live Right has joined AmazonSmile, we are very excited about being apart of the AmazonSmile Foundation.  With every eligible purchase, we make a 0.5% profit from the purchase price of the item. If you have an Amazon account, you can select Live Light Live Right as your charity and it will automatically add the money to our account.  If you have any questions you can go to AmazonSmile and they will walk you through the process.

The AmazonSmile Foundation is a 501(c)(3) private foundation created by Amazon to administer the AmazonSmile program.

Thank you for your continued support of the Live Light Live Right Program, happy shopping.

Hoops for Health Fathers’ Basketball Event

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Live Light Live Right is supporting and participating in the Hoops for Health Fathers’ Basketball Event on June 20, 2015 at 10:00am-4:00pm at the Brownsville Recreation Center, 1555 Linden Blvd, Brooklyn, NY 11212.  It is being sponsored by Brooklyn Breastfeeding Empowerment Zone and Partners,  Partially funded by the W.K.Kellogg Foundation.  You can register for the event here.

You may download this flyer for more information:

Hoops for Health Fathers’ Basketball Event Online Registration

A Smart Start: A Symposium on Preventing Childhood Obesity

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On April 16th, many of the Live Light Live Right staff attending this symposium on Preventing Childhood Obesity at Columbia University Medical Center.  The purpose of this symposium was to understand the importance of the associations between pregnancy related risk factors, infant feeding practices and early childhood interventions with later obesity in childhood through adulthood and to identify potential ways for preventing obesity.

12th Annual bodysculpt of New York, Children’s Sports & Fitness Expo

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On Saturday, June 27th from 10:00am-4:00pm there will be a free fitness & sports expo at Boys & Girls High School, 1700 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY.

There will be many sports clinics available and special guest Rashad Jennings, NY Giants Running Back.  It will be a fun day for all.  If you would like more information please visit bodysculpt of New York’s website.

Live Light Live Right will have a table with food demonstrations and tastings.  We hope to see you there.