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Does Your Children's Vitamin Provide Complete Protection?

"When it comes to children's supplement's, I recommend Usanimals, USANA's chewable 'ESSENTIAL'S' for kids. This product provides the advanced levels of the essential vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants that all children need for a healthy start in life.

Lyle MacWilliam's detailed comparison of over 160 children's nutritionals**, gives Usnmimals the highest rating for formula completeness, balance, potency, and safety. The antioxidant complex in Usanimals is particularly strong (see vitamin C, vitamin E, selenium, and phytonutrient complex information above.) And importantly I love the fact that by using ingredients like honey, xylitol, and berry powders, USANA provides a children's supplement that is free of artificial sweeteners, colors and flavors."

- Christine Wood, M.D.

Practicing Pediatrician in Encinitias, CA.

Author of How to Get Kids to Eat Great and Love It and www.kidseatgreat.com

Kids Eat Great.com is devoted to all those interested and concerned about creating a healthier eating environment for their children.  For the parents of picky eaters to those dealing with their overweight children to those who are interested in creating a safe eating environment for their children – this site has information to address these problems and more.

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About Dr. Christine Wood

Christine (Ito) Wood, M.D., C.L.E. is a practicing pediatrician and certified lactation educator with interests in healthy nutrition for children and the environmental and nutritional impact on health and disease. She is a compelling voice on the subject of children's nutritional and environmental issues.

She is the author of the book, How to Get Kids to Eat Great & Love It! (third edition, KidsEatGreat, Inc, 2006). Filled with practical, easy-to-understand information for parents, she backs it up with science-based research to emphasize the nutritional links to disease. She maintains another website, My Kids Doctor Visit, launched in 1997. It is a website for parents designed to give information on common illnesses, like colds, ear infections, diarrhea, vomiting, fever, and more.  Kids Weigh to Go is her program targeting families with overweight children.

Dr. Wood lectures to physicians and other health professionals (nurses, lactation consultants, dietitians, school nurses and others) on the topic of nutritional medicine for children and she gives seminars to parents on healthy lifestyle practices for children. She is a research consultant for San Diego State University with a 5-year grant (started March 2006) on preventing childhood obesity in recreation centers. She has lectured throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, Singapore, and Japan. Dr. Wood is a spokesperson for an international nutritional company, USANA, and serves on their Scientific Advisory Council. She is the Co-Chair for the San Diego Childhood Obesity Initiative  whose mission is to reduce and prevent childhood obesity in San Diego County by creating healthy environments for all children and families through advocacy, education, policy development, and environmental change. To fulfill its mission, the Initiative creates, supports, and mobilizes partners from multiple domains (i.e., sectors); provides leadership and vision; and coordinates county-wide efforts in the prevention and reduction of childhood obesity. Through her work with the Initiative, she has worked with school wellness policy, contributed to creating the Power Up 4 Sports & Health Toolkit for sports leagues, organized medical conferences addressing the role of health professionals in community advocacy and worked with a Physician Advisory Board with the San Diego County Childhood Obesity Initiative.

She was a guest writer for a special edition of Newsweek released in October 2000, called "Your Child." Her interviews and articles have been published in magazines including: Wall Street Journal, Redbook, Parents, Parenting, American Baby, Fit Pregnancy, Family Life, Exceptional Parent, and Great Life to mention a few. A frequent guest on radio shows and also a noted expert on television, she informs parents about the critical need for proper nutrition for children. If you would like to contact her regarding print interviews, speaking engagements, radio or television spots, please see the Press Room.

She is currently practicing general pediatrics at El Camino Pediatrics. She is listed in the Best Doctors of America, representing the top 3% of doctors in this peer review polling process. She also does nutritional consultations for weight management and other nutritional problems.  She attended the University of Detroit for her undergraduate degree and received her medical degree from the University of Michigan. She completed her pediatric residency at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. She received her lactation educator certification from the University of California, San Diego.

Dr. Wood explains that she found a need to address the questions her patients repeatedly ask regarding the role nutrition plays in the health of their children. Dr. Wood says, "Parents need to realize what an important job they have to teach their kids healthy eating habits, to use proper nutritional supplementation and to participate in regular physical activity. Parents must start today and model a healthy lifestyle and do all they can to create children who will eat healthy and be active. It is perhaps the greatest gift we can give our children . . . the gift of health.

 

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Whitney Lynn Kingsbury Ph.D To Join Team Domin8 Medical Panel

Whitney Kingsbury obtained her doctorate from The University of Illinois, where she completed her dissertation entitled "Associations among adolescent obesity, bullying and media exposure in relation to psychological adjustment and body-size stigmatization."

In this research endeavor, she examined "fatism", bullying, and media exposure in middle school students to explore the associations among internalizing weight-based stigmatizing beliefs from the media, bullying overweight peers, and the impact these experiences have on psychological outcomes in overweight youth. Moreover, in this study she investigated possible ways of reducing weight-based stigmatization.

Her interests in this area stemmed from  the unique opportunity she had as a behavioral therapist at an intensive summer weight loss adventure camp for adolescents in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.  In this position, she applied a biopsychosocial approach to the treatment of obesity that attended to both the physiology and psychology of such a condition through individual and group counseling, behavioral management, and nutritional education.  She describes this experience as life-changing, to witness the growth and positive health changes these individuals made in their lives when armed with resources, knowledge, and support.

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As a clinician, she has worked in a college health center, hospitals, outpatient clinics, therapeutic day schools, and most recently, at a residential treatment program serving adolescents with significant trauma and abuse histories. She has also served as an administrator at a graduate school, managing their partnerships with community agencies, overseeing community engaged scholarship activities of students, and building programs through community outreach.

Across this broad range of experiences, a pervasive underlying theme has been Whitney's passion in working with youth, and in particular, "at-risk" underserved populations, with a consistent goal to empower individuals to make changes in their lives that promote better health and wellness. Whitney has always adopted a holistic, health psychology perspective in conducting community-based work.

Whitney is therefore extremely excited to join the Team Domin8 Leadership Panel because she will have the opportunity to continue addressing the needs of our "at risk" youth community by empowering them and giving them the resources they need to lead a healthier lifestyle. A partnership with USANA Health Scienes will provide greatly needed nutritional and general health education to be delivered to our communities, and especially to our youth.

Below is an exerpt from Whitney's dissertation. 

This excerpt sets the stage for the challenge facing the youth of America with regards to health and nutrtion. It provides clarity to the opportunity that exists for USANA Associates to  have a positive impact on this world for generations to come.

The incidence of childhood obesity has tripled in the past three decades; current estimates are that approximately 11% of children between the ages of 6 and 17 years old are obese [Body Mass Index (BMI) > 95^th percentile of reference population] and an additional 14% are overweight (BMI between the 85^th and 95^th percentiles; Troiano & Flegal, 1998).  Also alarming, the prevalence of those overweight only continues to increase in similar magnitudes among all sex and age groups (Flegal & Troiano, 2000).  Given the growing literature documenting the stigmatization of obesity in numerous domains including educational, medical, and occupational settings (Puhl & Brownell, 2003), more research is warranted to better understand how these prejudiced attitudes develop as well as the psychological consequences of stigmatization.

Perhaps most troubling, however, is that such negative attitudes toward the obese and overweight is evident in as young as pre-school children aged 3-5 years (Cramer & Steinwert, 1998).  Despite prejudiced attitudes from other children and resulting peer rejection being one of the most common sources of stigmatization of obese children, few studies have assessed the bullying experiences of overweight youth.  Moreover, the negative messages overweight children and adolescents receive from peers and even family members are compounded by the societal messages about obese individuals portrayed in the media.  

KINGSBURY'S CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS:

Kingsbury, W. L., & Espelage, D. L. (2007). Attribution Style and Coping along the Bully-Victim Continuum. Special Issue: Experimental Educational Science, XLIV, 1, 71-102.

Kingsbury, W., & Espelage, D.L. (in press).  Self-blaming attributions as mediators between victimization and psychological outcomes during early adolescence.  European Journal of Educational Psychology.

Kingsbury, W. L., & Espelage, D. L. (2003, August). Attribution Style and Coping along the Bully-Victim Continuum. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the APA, Toronto, Canada.

Kingsbury, W. L., & Espelage, D. L. (2004, April). Attribution Style and Coping along the Bully-Victim Continuum in Middle School Students. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.

Kingsbury, W. L., & Espelage, D. L. (2005, April). Using Cluster Analysis to Examine Coping Profiles across Bully-Victim Subtypes.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GA.

Kingsbury, W. L., Schiffner, T. A., Qin, X., Cheng, S. J. (2004, February). Development of the Racial Justice Action Scale. Poster presented at the Winter Roundtable Conference, New York, NY.

Holt, M., Kingsbury, W., Espelage, D., Keyes, M.A., & Koenig, B.W. (2003, March). Teachers’ Attitudes Toward Bullying. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.

Machizawa, S., Trail, S., & Kingsbury, W. (2009, April). Teaching Civic Responsibility to Future Psychologists. Paper presented at the 2009 Southeastern Regional Counseling Psychology Conference, Counseling Psychology in the 21^st Century: Social Justice, Practice, and Research, Athens, GA.

Swearer, S. M., Espelage, D. L., Love, K. B., & Kingsbury, W. (in press). School

-wide approaches to intervention with school violence and bullying. In B. J. Doll &

J.A. Cummings (Eds.), Population-based services of school psychologists. NY: The

Guilford Press.

Swearer, S., Peugh, J., Espelage, D. L., Siebecker, A. B., Kingsbury, W. K., & Bevins, K. S. (in press). A Social-Ecological Perspective on Bullying Prevention and Intervention. In S. Jimerson and M. Furlong (Eds.), Handbook of School Violence and School Safety: From Research to Practice. To be published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

Brian Washington Joins Team Domin8 Advisory Panel

Artists are eager to champion causes through their work. The Same can be said of some attorneys, especially those who prize social justice.


Brian Washington, a prolific artist and lawyer, is both.


In 2002, Washington's 11-piece first addition series, formally entitled "The Continual Struggle: The Civil Right Movement - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow," was acquired in its entirety by the Smithsonian-affiliated National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati.


The $100-million museum opened in 2004 with six interactive galleries that address slavery, the Civil War, the Underground Railroad and contemporary issues in civil and human rights. 


For Washington there are many parallels between his art, legal profession and affiliation with USANA Health Sciences.


"They are really three different means to getting to the same end," said Washington, who is currently working on Edition 2, as well as practicing law from the Los Angeles office of Sidley, Austin, Brown and Wood.


"I want to raise awareness of certain issues and fight for what I believe is right. I want to be a voice for those who don't, or can't, raise theirs. 


USANA Health Sciences is a vehicle that will empower me to better serve my community, pursue my true passion of art and be a role model for healthy lifestyles that others can follow. I am truly thankful that USANA is in my life."
-Brian Washington

USANA Associates Speak Out (2)

"Couple Spends 5 Years Building A USANA Business."
Learn what happened when this Florida couple that needed a new beginning spent 5 years of their life building a home-based business with USANA Health Sciences.

"A Struggling Couple Looks To USANA."
A husband in poor health and a wife with no college degree think USANA can help them put their three kids through college and allow them to retire early.

USANA Associates Speak Out

"A Couple Leaves Corporate America For USANA."
Looking for extra streams of income, a hard-working leaves their corporate lives in search of something new. Following the advice of their team,they attempt to build a better life with USANA.

"20-Somethings Risk Stability by Putting Trust In USANA."

Learn what happens when this hardworking couple with stable careers risked everything by putting their time and efforts into building a home-based business with USANA Health Sciences.

2009 USANA Year In Review