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BALTIMORE (WJZ) The Hampden Family Center is celebrating 25 years of serving the community by throwing a big gala.

Whether youre a little kid or a senior citizen, the center has something to offer.

During a stop at the center, Shirley Huff and her friends were getting in a workout and having a little fun at the same time, taking part in the Fitness for 50+ class the center offers.

For a lot of us, its within walking distance so we can come and have exercise and also come for other things here, Huff said.

The center also offers crafts, computer classes and senior luncheons.

Ashley Wilkes is the centers director of operations. She said the programs and services go well beyond those for seniors.

We pretty much serve all ages in the community. We do after-school and summer enrichment programs for children, Wilke said. We also provide benefits assistance for folks who are homeless and are looking to apply for food stamps or medical assistance.

Most of the programs are offered at little or no cost, but they need funding to continue serving the community. Thats why theyre holding a big party to raise money.

We do get funding from grants and individuals throughout the city, but our events really are key both to bringing in the extra money that the center relies on to continuously provide services for the neighborhood, Wilkes said.

The gala will be held on March 21; tickets are available here.

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Calvin Davis smiles as Art-Kids Executive Director Cowboy Ted Hallisey hands him a colorful strand of yarn at PC Tots Monday morning.

Davis,who just turned 5, along with nine of his classmates, will use the yarn and a cut-up paper plate to make a dreamcatcher, one of the creative projects that Arts-Kids uses to help children build self-esteem and connect with each other.

Davis smile tells Hallisey that the child is engaged and having a positive experience, which is a big component of the nonprofits mission.

Our biggest thing at Arts-Kids is that we want the kids to have fun, because when they are having fun, they have less chance of becoming desperate, overwhelmed and suicidal, Hallisey said. Were trying to build resilience at this age so they dont develop harmful patterns. We are helping them find their happy place through the arts.

While suicide prevention may sound a little drastic for preschool-aged children, the second-leading cause of death for individuals ages 10 to 24 is suicide, according to the Society for the Prevention of Teen Suicide.

Studies have shown that its too late to start taking preventive measures by 8, because kids by then have already established patterns of despair, he said. So we decided to start younger help these kids feel connected and engaged, because suicidal kids dont feel connected or that they are making a difference in peoples lives.

Arts-Kids was founded in 1999 by child psychiatrist Pat Drewry Sanger. It started as an after-school art therapy program that ran for eight weeks, said Hallisey, who was named executive director in 2018.

The nonprofit currently serves 700 children in Summit County, 700 kids in Salt Lake County and 500 kids in Utah County through its programs, according to Hallisey.

In the Park City area alone, Arts-Kids hosts sessions at South Summit School District, PC Tots, Holy Cross Ministries and Weilenmann School of Discovery, as well as Jeremy Ranch, Parleys Park, Trailside and McPolin elementary schools.

Volunteers help Hallisey meet the demands, and there are 10 who help with the Summit County programs. A number of the volunteers are high school students who work through Youthlinc, a global humanitarian nonprofit, Hallisey said.

Since 2018, Arts-Kids has expanded its programming from visual art to include recreation, music and storytelling, he said.

With all of the children we reach, we want to make sure we are giving them quality experiences, he said.

The experiences teach the children life lessons and coping skills, Hallisey said.

For example, today were making out dreamcatchers, which teach us that nothing is permanent or perfect, he said on Monday. We are telling the children that they can always restart and have a second chance.

Cup stacking is another exercise Arts-Kids teaches, giving the students fine-motor skills.

One of the things we found out with preschoolers is that they didnt have hand capabilities, he said. They could push buttons on a cellphone, but they couldnt take a lid off jars and things like that. So we are doing some dexterity exercises with their right and left hands.

And, like the dreamcatchers, cup stacking reinforces that things arent permanent.

When someone knocks the stack over, we tell them its OK to start again, Hallisey said.

Susie Bond, director of PC Tots, a child care and early education nonprofit that serves more than 100 families, sees the importance of working with Arts-Kids.

First of all, they come consistently, so the kids can always expect them to be here, she said. Secondly, Arts-Kids staff come prepared with an activity and story that will teach a moral or some kind of social lesson.

Bond also likes that Arts-Kids is directed by a positive male role model.

All the kids love having Cowboy Ted here, because we dont have a lot of men on staff, she said. He speaks so kindly to everyone, and really listens to the kids. And that reinforces an important and positive male trait.

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This fall semester, Princeton undergraduates in the team-taught course America Then and Now explored the shaping of America through a range of experiences in and outside the classroom. In mid-November, the nearly 100 students in the course visited Princeton University Librarys (PUL) Special Collections to gain hands-on experience in archival research.

The course syllabus brought cultural, social and political history to life through a range of media from books to musical theater, including Childish Gambinos music video,This Is America;Ernesto Chavezs The U.S. War With Mexico: A Brief History with Documents"; Lin-Manuel Mirandas musical and Quiara Alegra Hudess book, In the Heights; The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America by Beth Lew-Williams, associate professor of history at Princeton; and more.

America Then and Now was first taught in 2013 and was designed with the overarching question: What should every Princeton student, upon graduating, know about America? In this gateway course, students gain a broad perspective on America by considering an array of historical and contemporary issues central to the development of this country.

Students exchange ideas and impressions as they examine a theater broadside. Other materials drawn from the thousands of theatrical pieces in Princetons collections included playbills, songbooks and tickets.

Photo by Shelley Szwast, Princeton University Library

This fall, three professors with scholarly focuses across the arts and humanities created the course curriculum and rotated lectures on immigration, imperialism and race.

We wanted each of us to teach material in our own fields and also create coherence among the lectures, said Aisha Beliso-De Jess, professor of American studies. She co-taught the course with William Gleason, the Hughes-Rogers Professor of English and American studies, and Stacy Wolf, professor of theater and director of the Program in Music Theater.

In advance of the classs visits to PULs Special Collections, Wolf introduced a unit on race with Suzan-Lori Parkss Pulitzer-Prize winning play, Topdog/Underdog. Wolf called the play, about two brothers named Lincoln and Booth, a metaphor for America.

She added, It deals with race, masculinity, poverty and performance ... and also speaks to the history of minstrelsy in the U.S.

During the week following the lecture, precepts of about 15 students each visited the Special Collections to examine 19th- and 20th-century materials from minstrel shows to consider how racist representations from the past affect the U.S. today.

Gabriel Swift (standing), librarian for Special Collections, encourages students to apply the 5 Ws who, what, why, where and when during an exercise in archival research.

Photo by Shelley Szwast, Princeton University Library

Gabriel Swift, librarian for Special Collections, welcomed students with an exercise in archival research. He encouraged students to apply the 5 Ws who, what, why, where and when while examining materials drawn from the thousands of theatrical pieces in Princetons collections.

Students gathered around tables that displayed items including broadsides, playbills, songbooks and admission tickets. They studied an anti-slavery needlepoint work crafted in 1848 by abolitionist Maria Wild, and an 18th-century abolitionist Wedgwood medallion with the slave image and inscription, Am I not a man and a brother.

Sophomore Connor Scaglione said the experience added a real-life dimension to the classroom discussions. I think it was really valuable to look at the different resources, touch and talk about the materials. I felt lucky, honestly, to be able to do that.

Seeing the rare collections, what people back in the day saw and what they thought, was pretty amazing, said sophomore Annie Kong.

At one table, students analyzed the symbols and imagery of a 20th-century broadside displaying white people in blackface.

How does this tie back to the culture of lynching and Jim Crow? asked Beliso-De Jess.

Understanding the differences in how white people and black people viewed each other and where were coming from, said one student, leads to a better understanding of how we move forward.

After reading a sampling of joke books used in minstrel shows, sophomore Teara Jamison said,it was problematic, but good to see the history.

Beliso-De Jess said students were challenged by the materials, finding them both compelling and upsetting. Seeing difficult materials that theyd read about up close and in person can help students recognize not only the troubling history of minstrelsy but also the ways that its racism continues to impact current representations today, she said.

Stacy Wolf (left), professor of theater and director of the Program in Music Theater, said: Its transformative to come to the library. It makes some [students] historians. Last year, three of my students from a class of 20 ended up doing senior theses with the archives.

Photo by Shelley Szwast, Princeton University Library

Many students in America Then and Now are in their first or second year at the University, said Gleason. Having the chance to see primary materials early in their Princeton careers might lead them to do more work in the collections later on.

Swift encouraged students curiosity. You dont need a strong thesis statement to start calling materials to the reading room. A lot of the best research begins with serendipity, he said.

Faculty requests to teach with the Special Collections continues to grow annually. There were some 300 class visits in the 2018-19 academic year. This fall, Swift was appointed into a new, dedicated position for academic programs. He helped launch the Universitys Teach with Collections initiative, a collaboration between PUL, the Princeton University Art Museum and the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning.

PULs vast resources, ranging from cuneiform tablets to the Toni Morrison papers, support classroom and independent work and inspire future research.

Its transformative to come to the library, Wolf said. It makes some [students] historians. Last year, three of my students from a class of 20 ended up doing senior theses with the archives.

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of new exhibition in Wheeling

WHEELING A new exhibition and educational series that offers an approach to aging through the eyes of a dozen artists opens today at Oglebay Institutes Stifel Fine Arts Center and includes the works of Ohio watercolorist Gina Judy, a Richmond resident.

Presence: An Exploration of Aging Through Art examines the universal, yet intensely personal, experience of growing old. The exhibit showcases work from a dozen artists from six states.

Through a variety of media, the exhibition explores a broad range of perspectives from thriving lifestyles to the harsher realities of aging. Presence provides insight into the physical and mental aging process, challenges us to rethink how we perceive age, highlights the therapeutic benefits of the creative process and examines the role of elders in our society.

Judy was a caregiver for her father, an Alzheimers patient, for six years before he entered long-term care. Her paintings depict her fathers time in a nursing home.

Judy is a retired art educator who was recognized as an Ohio Region East Outstanding Art Educator and named to the Ohio Art Education Association Circa-Society of Membership. Since her retirement, she has exhibited in 12 states and in 22 shows that have required a national or international screening, placing in three of them. Last year her work was juried into OH+5, a six-state biennial regional exhibit.

A series of learning and community-building events are being held in conjunction with the exhibit. Presence is part of the Stifel Centers humanities series, developed by curator Michael McKowen.

I believe that the role of the Stifel Fine Arts Center is to provide a place to commune, McKowen said. A public art space should invite exploration. By presenting topics that affect every human being, we provide opportunities for emotional, physical, mental and spiritual growth.

Among the featured artists are Isadora Kosofsky, a Los Angeles-based documentary photographer, who recently was named one of a hundred heroines in photography worldwide by the Royal Photo Society; photographer Marna Clarke, who at age 70 decided to chronicle her own aging process.

Educational programs take place weekly and include panel discussions on aging and dementia, presentations from featured artists, yoga and wellness workshops, spoken word events and art therapy sessions.

All programs are free and open to the public.

The exhibit will be on display at Oglebay Institutes Stifel Fine Arts Center through April 25 and can be viewed free of change from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays. Evening hours are dependent on classes and special events.

For information, visit http://www.OIonline.com/presence or call the Stifel Fine Arts Center at (304) 242-7700.

Dueling Pianos fundraiser

to support animals in need

WINTERSVILLE The Jefferson County Humane Society will hold its popular annual fundraiser, Dueling Pianos, on March 13 at St. Florian Event Center in Wintersville.

Get ready for a high-energy, entertaining, comedy routine, piano concert, sing-along and audience interaction event, noted a society representative.

Doors open at 7 p.m., and the show begins at 8 p.m. Tickets are on sale for $35 at the humane society and the humane society clinic in Wintersville; Hausers Furniture in Steubenville; Neo-Hair Design in Wintersville; or online at duelingpiano.brownpapertickets.com. If tickets arent sold out, they will be $45 at the door.

Admission includes bar-type food, and there will be a full cash bar. Attendees must be 21 or older.

The humane society has had a county presence since 1915.

Our mission is to improve the lives of animals, alleviate their suffering and elevate public awareness of animal welfare, a spokesperson explained. We safeguard, rescue, heal, adopt and advocate for animals in need, while inspiring community action and compassion on their behalf.

As a nonprofit 501c3 organization, the group does not receive any money from taxes or national organizations. Our survival as a local charity can only continue to exist through the generosity and donations provided by the people who believe in our animal welfare programs. These programs provide the well-deserved care and quality of life to animals in need, the spokesperson noted.

The society has worked very hard to establish programs that provide the necessary care for the homeless animals that come to the shelter. Our shelter and medical programs provide a homeless or lost animal with a comprehensive medical intake, vaccinations, veterinary care and spay/neuter as part of the adoption. We also offer affordable veterinary services to publicly owned animals at our clinic location.

The humane operations program, meanwhile, responds to various calls in the county, such as neglect, suspected animal cruelty, animal hoarding and abuse. The volunteer program allows us to run foster programs, local adoption events and provide public awareness of animals in need of a second chance, the spokesperson added.

Free spring aerobics class

at WVNCC Weirton campus

WEIRTON As a community service, the Weirton campus of West Virginia Northern Community College is offering a free spring aerobics class designed for anyone who wants to start exercising at a moderate pace.

The class begins on Monday, March 23, and ends on Wednesday, May 13 and meets in room 242-243 on Mondays and Wednesdays from 6 p.m. until 7 p.m.

This is a low-impact class with an emphasis on cardiorespiratory endurance, strength improvement and flexibility. All exercise is done standing (no chair or floor work), usually to music thats 128-140 beats per minute. Carol Teaff is the instructor.

Participants should wear loose or stretchy clothing and athletic shoes and should bring a bottle of water. Registration forms will be available at the first class, and participants can enroll at any time.

Friday fish frys under way

for St. Paul Church in Weirton

WEIRTON St. Paul Church in Weirton is once again sponsoring a fish fry every Friday during Lent and continuing through Good Friday, April 10.

The fish fry will be held in the St. Paul School cafeteria located on Walnut Street in downtown Weirton. The hours are from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and the fish will be from Colemans Fish Market in Wheeling.

We will feature fried fish, baked cod, breaded shrimp and peel-and-eat shrimp, a spokesman noted. Sides will include french fries, cole slaw, macaroni and cheese and, of course, our beloved Haluski Ladies will make their famous haluski noodles, cabbage and onions.

Patrons can eat in or get takeout. Delivery is available for orders for more than $20. To place an order, call (304) 797-1182.

Country Friends announces

entertainment for Saturday

COLLIERS Country Friends Foundation will host the Stone Street Station band as the entertainment on Saturday at the Memorial Hall located at 67 Police Lodge Road, Colliers.

The doors open at 6 p.m., the dance starts at 7 p.m., and the hall closes at 10 p.m. There is a $5 cover charge per person.

Open mic is Monday. The doors open at 4 p.m., the covered-dish meal is served at 5 p.m., and open mic begins at 6 p.m. and ends at 9 p.m. There is no cover charge on Mondays, but donations are appreciated.

For information, call (304) 479-1270, (304) 748-2816 or (304) 797-0122.

Farmers Breakfast Series on

industrial hemp production

STEUBENVILLE Ohio State University Extension is hosting host a Farmers Breakfast Series in Steubenville every third Friday through April with the next session set for March20 at the OSU Extension Jefferson County office in suite 512, 500 Market St.

Each session will run from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. and will cover farm management topics for local producers and provide opportunities for networking with local farmers, agencies and industry experts.

Marchs topic is hemp production in Ohio and will include discussions on the current legal status, considerations before getting started and the basics of production. Anyone who is thinking about getting into industrial hemp production is encouraged to attend.

The April session will cover farm record-keeping and managing farm accounting ledgers with guest speaker Chris Zoller, OSU Extension educator in Tuscarawas County.

The cost of each session is $5 and includes breakfast. Pre-registration is required. Register by contacting the OSU Extension office at (740) 264-2212 or send an e-mail to Erika Lyon, agriculture and natural resources education, OSU Extension, Jefferson and Harrison counties, at lyon.194@osu.edu one week before each session. Questions can be directed to Lyon at (740) 264-2212.

OSU Extension will provide accommodations to handicapped persons needing assistance to participate in Extension programs.

For information or to access information, contact the Extension Office. For information on Extension programs, visit jefferson.osu.edu or harrison.osu.edu.

Kroger retirees dinner

get-together March 19

WEIRTON All Kroger retirees are invited to the monthly dinner get-together that will be held March 19 at Undos Restaurant in Weirton, beginning at 5:30 p.m. To RSVP, contact Regina Truax at (304) 723-0419.

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Imagine this: Your member walks through the doors of your health club. They see a door to a 120-square-foot medical clinic to the right where labs can be drawn, biometric testing can be done and the physicians in the clinic can recommend they sign up for personal training to help them lose weight and lower their blood pressure. To the left is a door to a 400-square-foot physical therapy business where the therapists refer their clients to your club after their rehab is complete. Further back is a spa and wellness space with cryotherapy, red light therapy, massage and compression products. In the middle is the cardio, strength and functional training space. Your members health data is tracked from the moment they walk through the doors, not through a heart rate monitor but through a camera. They step on the treadmill, and the screen asks if they want the same workout as the day before. They shake their head yes. But before the treadmill begins, the camera senses they are about to have a heart attack. The technology not only notifies the member of their impending heart attack, but it also calls 9-1-1 and notifies the medical team in the building.

On top of all of this, imagine that health insurance companies, or payers, pay your club $100 per month to work with their insureds who have chronic conditions. And imagine that you give those insureds $50 of that $100 to come into the health club so that you can show to the payer how effectively your program saves them money.

Sound fantastical? Well, its not. All of these services and technology are already out there. And such medically based facilities already exist to varying levels. The movement for medical wellness facilities or medical fitness facilities has been around for many years, and it's now gaining strength.

What has held back many traditional health club operators from integrating healthcare often has been the technology, space and staffing required to do so.

So now, imagine this. A company comes into your facility, shares with you all of the preventive wellness and medical services you could offer, asks you how involved you want to be in all of this integration, and then does the work for you, helping you to gain new members and provide those new members as well as your existing members with better outcomeswhile generating more revenue for you.With that, you might say that such a model could be poised to disruptthe fitness industry.

This vision was put forth by Jeff Skeen, CEO of Results Redefined, McLean, Virginia. Any health club operator who is not thinking about medically integrating at even a basic level right now could miss the boat and be out of business in 10 years, he said.

Jeff has been in the fitness business for more than 26 years with brands such as Golds Gym and Fitness Connection. Recently, he teamed with his brother, Tim Skeen, who has held multiple positions at a Fortune 50 insurance company, including his last position as the Enterprise CIO.

The two are investing in technology and brick and mortar companies that can help deliver the solutions that the health club industry needs to seamlessly provide the support necessary to make the partnerships with the healthcare community happen and to move the health club industry from the same model it has operated in for the majority of its existence to something new that focuses on preventing disease as well as helping to manage chronic conditions and recovery.

The United States spends $3.5 trillion annually on health care, 90 percent of which is for people with chronic and mental health conditions, according to the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Seven in 10 deaths each year are caused by chronic conditions.

Health insurance companies have massive cost of care initiatives to reduce their expenses for certain high-cost treatments, according to Tim. Helping to prevent these conditions is a part of those initiatives. Health clubs can be great partners for payers and the medical community to help prevent those conditions because of their expertise in providing fitness programming and because of the data that health clubs can collect from members (with their permission).

Rather than just collecting basic membership data, health clubs can begin collecting core social determinants of health and other data elements that give value to the rest of the ecosystem and value to the member themselves, Tim said. Some of the data could be biometric, but some of it could be social or economic data that can make the complete data record more actionable, especially when joined with other healthcare data from the provider side and the payer side. This richer data can help improve the quality of the interactions and outcomes members achieve.

And this is true not just for members with known chronic conditions, Tim added. Richer data on healthy, young members who visit a health club multiple times per week but may, at best, only visit their doctor for an annual physical can help reveal unknown conditions that would negatively affect the members health. By applying proactive and preventive care earlier, health outcomes are improved, and costs to the healthcare system are reduced.

All of this data is only useful, though, if it can be shared among the members, payers, healthcare providers and health clubs. To make data shareable, technology is required, the implementation of which can seem daunting for each of the communities involved.

There is a need to securely provide the data interoperability and real-time transport of this information between each of the stakeholders, Tim said. Removing the barriers to connecting each of these entities and providing a frictionless environment to allow this information to flow seamlessly is critical so as to not distract from the core things they have to do as payers with large member populations.

The same is true for health club owners, Jeff said.

One of the big difficulties is that the health clubs are not set up in a way to efficiently receive this information, Jeff said.

A lot of the programs that health clubs offer todaysuch as Silver Sneakers and Silver & Fitare profitable for clubs, but much of the required front desk and back office activity is manual, which not only takes time away from employees but also increases the likelihood of mistakes during data input, Jeff said.

The Skeens are investing in companies that would allow health club owners to participate in multiple programs but that require zero labor from their staff.

It literally is us sitting between the consumer and the health club, Jeff said. His company also would sit between the health club and the medical, wellness and payer industries.

Payers have been reimbursing health clubs for certain programs without receiving any data on effectiveness of those programs, Tim said, but with installation of new technology allowing connectivity among the payers, health clubs and healthcare community, that data could be securely provided to prove the value of exercise to prevent certain conditions or decrease the costs to payers for people with certain conditions. For instance, a type 2 diabetic can cost a payer $12,000 per year. If a payer gave a health club $100 per monthor $1,200 per yearto help a diabetic and received data proving that the efforts were effective and cut the cost to the payer in half, that would be a win for the payeras well as for the patient and the health club.

And health club owners could entice and keep members with chronic conditions by paying those members $50 of the $100 they get from the payer.

Now you need the technology to start capturing the improvement of health because ultimately what we're working toward is having the insurance companies pay the health clubs for prevention, Jeff said.

But that starts with creating a data hub that leverages the standards for interoperability and data interchange for the providers and payers inside that ecosystem so you can have the secure, real-time flow of data amongst all the different stakeholders involved, Tim said.

And that's something that doesn't really exist today, he said.

But that is what the Skeens are working toward with their investments in technology companies that would work in this space.

We're creating and partnering with companies that surround the health club operator so they could double or triple their profits just by being involved in the network, Jeff said. I see a vision in a world where the gyms are paying the member $50 a month to be a member because what's happening is in the background everybody in our ecosystem is taking the money that's out there, making it more efficient and effective, and the consumer is going to want to go to that club because now they are part of this whole system which results in a healthier lifestyle and outcome.

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The Wirral football league 'MAN V FAT' was launched at Pensby High School last month, where overweight men can shed weight in a competitive yet friendly environment.

Their goals are simple: to provide a non-judgmental environment where men can enjoy football; to lose weight and to improve their general health and well-being.

Players on these teams are rewarded not just for winning games, but for successfully losing weight too, with weekly weight loss counting towards a team's goal tally.

MAN v FAT is the first weight-loss scheme to be officially endorsed by the Football Association, and players are encouraged to keep a watchful eye on their nutrition through keeping a food journal.

Bryan Nugent, one of the latest additions to the pitch said: "I have been to many weight-loss groups in the past. Although they work for some, there's not enough focus on the activity side of things.

"Being a man, I sometimes feel those kinds of groups are female-dominated, so I found it challenging to open up to women about my weight-loss problems. Here, whether I'm playing the game or getting weighed, I can open up more because I know I'm surrounded by people facing similar situations."

Wirral has a strong reputation for bringing out astonishing football players yet, at the same time, the borough continues to struggle with losing weight.

MAN V FAT games have been enjoyed by many since its 2016 launch, and since then, 90% of all players who joined a local league have lost weight, with 62% hitting their 5% weight loss target in the first month.

The Wirral league is open to new members, regardless of fitness levels or experience. The sessions take place at Pensby High School every Friday night between 7pm-9pm. If you would like to sign up for the scheme, click here.

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KIMBERLEY Walsh has stunned fans with her incredible physique in recent weeks - while she takes to the stage for Big: The Musical in the West End.

And many dieters, desperate to follow in her footsteps, have been left asking exactly how the former Girls Aloud singer, 38, has managed to trim down.

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In particular, Kimberley revealed she lost three stone after giving birth to her youngest son Cole Scott in 2017.

Since then she has successfully kept the weight off and has showcased her svelte figure through a string of snaps on social media.

Kimberley, who is now a healthy size ten, says: "For me, its not about being thin I like having shape and definition."

Here, we take you through how Kimberley lost her baby weight...and now continues to stay in shape.

Kimberley has credited zero gravity pilates for helping her to lose weight and transform her figure.

She told The Sun: "Ive been doing zero gravity pilates which is a tame version, its hard strength wise, for me thats really good, to feel strong, Ive never been great at cardio."

Zero gravity pilates is a low-impact exercise that concentrates on strengthening the body, with an emphasis on core strength.

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Kimberley admits that she keeps the weight off by regulating her portion sizes - however, she never deprives herself of her favourite treats.

She said: "Ive never been one to get away with strict diets Im more about portion control, I wont deny myself anything, Im not very good at it.

"If I restrict myself I actually put on more weight."

Kimberley says she lost more than a stone through sessions with her personal trainer Peter Maciver, aka PMac.

She says she was "coerced" into hiring him by Rochelle and Marvin Humes at Rochelles 30th birthday party in March.

Speaking about her training sessions, she said: "Its good, because it pushes you. I usually see him once a week just to keep me motivated."

Kimberley is currently starring in a nine-week run of Big: The Musical in the West End alongside former boy bander and fellow Strictly star Jay McGuiness.

She says dancing has helped her stay fit and that eight shows a week requires stamina.

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She added: "Jay and I are doing a little bit of dancing in rehearsals, so that is helping. Ive got back to where I was before."

Kimberley credited SlimFast shakes with helping her get in shape after having a baby - having signed up as the face of the brand.

"The shakes are great when Im working out because theyre high in protein," she said.

"I always thought Id struggle with a diet plan that only has sweet food. SlimFast snacks suit me because there are savoury options. My favourite is the Spicy Thai Noodles, at only 70 cals."

One of Kimberley's life mantras has always been about focusing on happiness first and looks second.

She has celebrated her body on social media, especially after becoming a mum to two boys.

Earlier this year Kimberley posted two pap pictures side by side on Instagram, one taken on the last Girls Aloudtour when she was at her thinnest, and another in a bikini, four months after first baby Bobby, now five, was born.

She wrote candidly about putting things in perspective in the second shot, she had just created a human and hoped that other mums would find comfort in seeing the reality of her post-pregnancy body.

Ill take one for the team, she wrote.

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And she has since reiterate: "My stomach has held two babies, its wrinkly, its got that mum tum skin and thats not going to change.

"The kids have wrecked my body, theres no denying it I breastfed both of them and thats quite clear.

"But all I think about when I see them is: I actually made you! Women have kids every day and its amazing we can do that with our bodies. Im not special for being able to do it, but its crazy that we can."

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100 Kilo Kids followed the story of Tommy, who weighed 24st at age 14 (Picture: Channel 4)

100 Kilo Kids: Obesity SOS followed hospital staff in the city of Bristol attempting to help quell what they deemed an obesity crisis in British children tonight.

One such case in the Channel 4 doc was Tommy, a 14-year-old who weighed in at 23 stone, and who was admitted to hospital for a week in a last-ditch attempt to help him lose some weight.

Tommy was one of the clinics heaviest patients, and after putting on six stone despite having 18 months of treatment.

His admission to the hospital required him to follow a strict, calorie-counted diet, with regular intervals for exercise.

Doctors were worried about morbid obesity possibly causing problems for Tommy later in life, and he was already diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome before appearing on the programme.

There seemed to be some significant stumbling blocks in the process, however.

Mum Esther was at first unsure about the clinics treatment plan for her son and admitted in an emotional moment that she just wanted her son back.

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Despite being confined in hospital for a week, Tommys regular weighings detected that the teenager had actually managed to gain a kilo in weight during his stay.

It was revealed as well that his mother had brought him in some ready meals to replace the hospital food, although she insisted the meals themselves had been calorie-counted to ensure he wasnt eating more than the hospital recommended.

In a confessional to camera, Tommy also admitted that he had eaten a chocolate from a box given to him a present during his stay although he did say he only had one treat and gave the rest to his mum.

Things seemed to reach a breaking point towards the end of the episode with the revelation that Tommy had actually gained weight, with Esther leaving the hospital in tears.

There was, however, a happy ending.

As the documentary ended, it was revealed in a heart-warming moment that Tommy had actually managed to shift a massive stone and a half during his hospital stay delighting both him and his mother and the doctors and dieticians.

And viewers also took to Twitter to praise Tommy for his achievement, and hope he keeps it up after cameras stop rolling.

One viewer wrote: Wow, what a turnaround for Tommy, hope he keeps it up!

Another added: Well done Tommy! Huge achievement and amazing to see how happy he is.

100 Kilo Kids: Obesity SOS is available to stream via All4.

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Americans have said they weigh at least 200 pounds than did so from 2001-2009, according to a Gallup poll conducted last year. An average of 28% of Americans said they weighed 200 pounds or more from 2010-2019, up from 24% during the prior decade.

The poll also found more Americans, on average, comfortable with their weight; it is perhaps not surprising that fewer are looking to lose weight, even as they are weighing more. An average of 54% of Americans have said they want to lose weight from 2010-2019, compared with 59% who said so from 2001-2009.

With March being National Nutrition Month and Americans collectively spending hundreds of billions of dollars annually on obesity-related medical treatment, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2020's Most Overweight and Obese Cities in the U.S.

In order to call attention to the communities where weight-related problems are most prevalent, WalletHub compared 100 of the most populated U.S. metro areas across 19 key metrics. The data set ranges from share of obese adults to share of overweight children to projected obesity rates by 2030.

Key Stats

Expert Commentary

What are the biggest mistakes people make when trying to achieve and maintain a healthy lifestyle?

"I often think that because we, as humans, generally tend to be rushing around all the time that we expect results to be just as quick," said Brent M. Peterson, PhD, MS, MPH, CSCS, Biola University. "However, as a result of living a fast-paced life, I surmise that one of the biggest mistakes that people make is that they take on too much, too soon, too quickly, and end up so disappointed that they quit. In order to develop healthy behaviors and habits we need a bit more time in the activity before it becomes solidified. I often recommend that people start small (whatever that means for the individual), find things they enjoy, increase doing enjoyable things, and be consistent for longer than a month. Then, reevaluate, add, and repeat."

"Resort to "outsourcing" cooking and food prep," said Josephine Connolly-Schoonen, PhD, RD, Stony Brook Medicine. "For example, bulk prepare on day off of work: 2-3 starchy foods on day off (roast butternut squash and potatoes), make a batch of brown rice. 3-4 vegetables (roast cauliflower and beets) and saute beet greens. 2 proteins (bake 1-2 chickens; use slow cooker to make turkey or vegetarian chili). This makes mixing and matching to create quick dinners and lunches a breeze (for lunches you can add leftovers to a base of greens for a salad or heat up leftovers). urn cooking into an enjoyable family affair play music, involve partners and kids. It may take time to build this family routine, but creates great bonding time and a priority of health and wellness."

"Some people set really high goals for healthy eating and exercise and then feel discouraged when they can't meet or sustain those goals," said Diane Gilbert-Diamond, ScD, Dartmouth College. "People should feel encouraged that even small increases in exercise and healthy eating can improve health. Individuals can also be tempted by fad diets that promise fast results. Most people cannot successfully lose weight and keep it off with these diets. Seek sound nutrition advice from your doctor or sources like Harvard's nutrition source for a sustainable healthy diet."

Should employers play a role in helping workers maintain a healthy lifestyle? How?

"The working place is where most adults spend the majority of their adult lives," said Teresa Quattrin, MD UB Distinguished Professor, University at Buffalo. "Yes! an employer can encourage employees to have healthy lunches by providing access to healthy snack alternatives, water fountains, and nice space with ample room for refrigeration of lunch brought in. Employers can encourage physical activity contexts (steps) and cooking competitions of healthy food while increasing awareness on health and wellness opportunities in the community and creating areas where employees can be physically active. Employers have also a potential secondary gain because in the "experience rated" evaluations from health care plans, the plans base the rates also on the employer's expenditures. In turn the employer can pass some of these savings to the employee."

"Yes, absolutely, "said Shreela Sharma, PhD, RD, LD, Houston School of Public Health. "It's in their best interest to do so. This can be done two ways policy and environmental level support and/or individual level evidence-based programs. Policy/environmental support could include healthy vending machines, healthy cafeteria menus, nutritional labeling of foods and beverages, offering incentives such as compensated work time to employees to go to the gym, building walking pathways etc. At the individual level, employers can offer lifestyle interventions such as Diabetes Prevention Program, Weight Watchers, gym memberships, and such for their employees to support their lifestyle goals. Employers should conduct annual health risk assessments to help monitor return on investment."

"Absolutely," said Simin Liu, Brown University. "There are so many strategies that employers can adopt. For example, create a friendly and healthy work environment with frequent break and face-to-face communication opportunities, incentivize for living a healthy lifestyle (e.g., provide free gym membership, standing desk at work, and on-site exercise facility and fresh foods markets etc.)"

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https://wallethub.com/edu/fattest-cities-in-america/10532/

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Airway Heights resident Shawn Impett decided to restrict carbohydrates and sugar in his diet, leading to a 130-pound weight loss.

Impett, 43, once tipped the scale at 335 pounds but dropped to his goal weight of 205 in December 2018 after starting the ketogenic diet in the previous year. Along with keto, he follows an intermittent fasting plan and has kept the weight off for more than a year.

He also attends a Spokane Valley Take Off Pounds Sensibly group, which he joined in 2010 and credits for its members support. His mother had first tried ketos high-fat, low-carbohydrate eating plan, so he began soon after.

When my mom and her friend found the keto diet, I started doing it, he said. I found that I had more energy, and the pounds were dropping off quickly, so I thought, There is something to this.

I started doing it more seriously, and I kept showing better and better results.

Keto is short for ketosis, a metabolic state when the liver begins to use stored fat to produce ketones for energy. It happens if the body loses access to its preferred fuel from carbohydrates. Health professionals often caution people to incorporate foods such as green vegetables and whole grains.

Impett cut out certain foods such as one favorite: chips. He consumes more fatty proteins, including eggs and beef, and has gone to a one-meal-a-day model.

He said his health and energy have improved significantly. With the weight off, Impett doesnt have the symptoms of two prior-diagnosed medical conditions essential tremors and atrial fibrillation.

The symptoms of those have pretty much gone away, he said. Its really beneficial to lose the weight and to get rid of the bad foods.

About eight years ago, the atrial fibrillation had caused heart palpitations and, at times, a racing heartbeat.

Back in February 2012, I woke up with my heart just beating rapidly. I went to the hospital, and my heart beats were at 220 beats per minute. Plus, I could kind of feel light flutters, which were the palpitations.

Thats when I was diagnosed with AFib. For a while, I was on a very light dosage of medication, but it was just to keep my heartbeat regular. Since Ive lost the weight, every once in a while Ill have a little flutter here and there, but its very rare now. Im off the medication.

He no longer takes medication for tremors, which previously caused problems for writing and eating soup, he said. Talking about health is part of Impetts comeback when people tell him they cant cut back on certain foods.

A lot of my friends have asked me what I have done, and when I tell them, You have to get rid of the sugar and the carbs, they say that they cant get rid of those, he said.

Youve got to make a decision on whats more important, the food or your health. I made the decision that my health is more important than the food. Are they themselves more important than the food? Once they have made that decision, it becomes easier to lose weight.

This time, he also did research and learned how to maintain his weight, he said.

I had previously lost weight through Weight Watchers and had gotten down to 160 pounds, but, after a bad marriage, I gained it all back, plus some, Impett added. But when I previously lost weight, I was almost starving myself. I didnt really know why and how to get the weight off.

This time, I knew what I was doing and how to keep it off. Ive already kept it off for over a year. Having more information makes it easier.

Today, hes a co-leader of his TOPS group. Impett received the 2018 TOPS Washington King award, recognized at a state conference last year. Impett uses strategies to keep on track such as what to do at restaurants.

Ive switched more to a kind of carnivore-type keto, but every once in a while Ill have vegetables, he said. Mostly, its when I go to restaurants with my TOPS friends because restaurants dont have plain meat plates.

So at a Mexican restaurant, for example, he said hell ask for fajitas but skip the beans and rice. Ill eat the guacamole that comes with it. Its a good source of fats.

His daily activity happens at work where he is a cook for a Zips restaurant, he said. On the job, he usually averages about 8,000 steps a day.

Im also doing whats called one meal a day, Impett said. Ive found for me that with intermittent fasting and keto together, its very powerful in a good way. It works a lot better than keto by itself or intermittent fasting by itself.

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