Trim Kids The Proven 12-Week Plan That Has Helped Thousands of Children Achieve a Healthier Weight

Melinda S. Sothern, Ph.D., M.Ed., C.E.P., is a licensed clinical exercise physiologist and a research faculty member and director of the Pediatric Obesity Clinical Research Section at the Louisiana State University (LSU) Health Sciences Center in New Orleans. She directs the Prevention of Childhood Obesity Laboratory at the LSU Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge. She has published extensively in the field of pediatric obesity and is a member of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control's Expert Panel on Childhood Obesity T. Kristian von Almen, Ph.D., is a research psychologist and assistant clinical professor in pediatrics at LSU Health Sciences Center. His behavioral techniques and psychosocial considerations for overweight children have been nationally and internationally presented and published Heidi Schumacher, R.D., L.D.N., C.D.E., is the chief clinical dietitian at Children's Hospital in New Orleans. She is a certified diabetes educator and nutrition director with the LSU Health Sciences Center Pediatric Weight Management ProgramSothern, Melinda S. is the author of 'Trim Kids The Proven 12-Week Plan That Has Helped Thousands of Children Achieve a Healthier Weight', published 2002 under ISBN 9780060188153 and ISBN 0060188154.