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The statistics are frightening. Everyday we see new programs and initiatives popping up to try and address this growing problem. What’s still broken? We’ll tell you…

The majority of obesity interventions are based in what is known as the health belief model, which states that people are unhealthy because they don’t know that certain behaviors are harmful—meaning, once they know something is bad they will stop. Most of these interventions teach kids about fattening foods and the importance of exercise. These programs never really examine why people engage in unhealthy behaviors. Very, very few of these programs demonstrate any significant results.

The Energy Up Program is novel in that it identifies why people engage in unhealthy behaviors, specifically overeating, and acknowledges that many people overeat

even when they know it is bad for them.  Energy Up looks at causes, as opposed to being reactionary. This is thinking completely outside the medical paradigm, which is completely fixated on calories.

Energy Up frames overeating within the realm of food addiction—We have not found another American school-based program that does this. Binge-eating triggers the same neurological pathways as drug addiction, so Voltage’s theories that are behind the program are rooted in science.  In addition, recent studies of carbohydrate consumption support that these foods affect satiety, and can trigger over-eating.

The U.S. is facing an obesity epidemic:

• The percentage of overweight children between the ages of 9 and 12 has tripled over the last 30 years.
• Currently, one in three children born in the U.S. is expected to be afflicted with Type 2 diabetes during his or her lifetime.
• If a faulty diet and inactivity are the main culprits causing Type 2 diabetes, then a change in lifestyle habits can delay and possibly prevent it.

The corner stone of Energy Up is the self-esteem component. Almost all of the other programs look at low self-esteem as the result of obesity, rather than the cause. Energy Up connects poor-self esteem with over-eating, which is an entirely new concept in the medical literature.

Energy Up has documented results! Participants in the program lost a significant amount of weight. AND, even better, obese girls lost the most weight, while normal weight girls gained what was expected for their age.

Come join the Volt-Age! Bring the Energy Up! Program to your school and community.

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Program Components
Program Administration
Online Program Features

Program Components

• Energy Up! program empowers teenagers to change their behavior by teaching them fitness, nutrition and health skills that promote their positive physical, mental, emotional and social development.

• Students get moving to their favorite dance music. Lifestyle and Nutrition education are taught through lessons within the Energy Up workbook, practical activities, online interactive tools, food tastings and product sampling.

• Teens are shocked to find that healthy food can taste good and they can change what they like to eat.
• Incentives are just one of our secrets to tackling self-esteem issues.

Program Administration

• Administrator Handbook guides individual schools/communities as they  adapt the program to their needs and available resources utilizing the online program as its foundation. The Handbook includes detailed documentation on:
• Activities
• Exercise
• Incentives
• Food Tastings
• Cafeteria Makeovers
• Energy Up Handbook
• Online Reporting Capabilities to track student usage and lesson completion
• Training will be available for school-based program administrators

 Online Program Features

• Online courses are becoming staples in many areas. Energy Up! wants to bring this technology to the Health and Wellness arena.
• We are creating an online version of the Energy Up! program that can be distributed to schools.
• Our goal is to provide a comprehensive proven solution that can help junior high and high schools meet the Federal Wellness Mandate requirements (While the program is female-oriented at present, it can easily be adapted to be unisex.)
• The Online program includes a semester of online interactive education to provide the real-life skills and knowledge necessary to live a healthy lifestyle
• Entertaining Video-based Education Modules presented by Voltage and our Medical Advisors
• Online Quizzes
• Downloadable Handouts

Other initial features include

• Blog
• Question and Answers
• Letters to Voltage
• Health marker calculators and resource page
• Online food tips and recipes

Online Energy Up will act as an ongoing resource for students, parents, and teachers to successfully implement Energy Up in their school, community and home.