BOUNCE to Health: A Healthy Lifestyle Program

Exclusion Criteria

• •Child and parental guardians are not Hispanic or African American
• •Child is not between the ages of 9-14 years
• •Child is underweight or normal weight (BMI \< 85 percentile) or are morbidly obese (BMI \> 100 percentile)
• •Child or mother are pregnant or physically unable to participate
• •Child has extensive diet restrictions that would hinder their participation in the BOUNCE nutrition component (e.g., unable to eat solid foods)
• •Child does not have submitted evidence of a medical examination conducted by a health professional
• •Note: We will encourage both maternal and paternal guardians to participate in the measurements and interventions. However, if the paternal guardian refuses to participate or there is no father figure present in the family, maternal guardian-child pairs will be still eligible to participate in this study. If the children are of mixed race, but identify themselves as Hispanic or African American and at least one of their parents is either Hispanic or African American, they will be still eligible to participate.