By Denise Mann HealthDay Reporter

FRIDAY, June 8 (HealthDay News) -- While U.S. doctors often urge obese teens to eat better and exercise more, overweight kids headed for obesity seldom get the same medical advice, a new study shows.

That's important, experts say, because preventing obesity is much easier than dealing with it once it's there.

In the study, fewer than half of all adolescents were advised to eat a healthful diet by their doctor, and only about a third were also told to get more exercise.

This type of advice was more commonly doled out to obese boys and girls than their normal-weight counterparts, but overweight adolescents -- those at highest risk of becoming obese -- were counseled much less often.

The bottom line is that "there is still significant room for improvement in terms of the diagnosis, prevention and management of weight issues in children," said one expert, Dr. Yolandra Hancock, a primary care pediatrician at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. She was not involved with the study.

If doctors aren't helping overweight kids slim down, it's up to parents to step in, she said.

"If your provider has not brought up weight or body-mass index (BMI), ask how much your child weighs, what their [BMI] is and how it compares to other same-aged kids," she said. "Once this conversation is initiated, the provider will take the lead."

BMI is a measurement of body fat based on height and weight. A BMI of 30 is typically considered the threshold for obesity.

The study, led by Dr. Lan Liang of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in Rockville, Md., appears online in advance of print publication in the July issue of Pediatrics.

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06-06-2012 09:24 In today's Weekly Webisode Wednesday, I meet with a licensed counselor who is also a Life Coach. We explore the differences and similarities between Life Coaching and Therapy/Counseling. We also discuss when to use both - and when not to. If you're considering one or both, or know someone who is, you don't want to miss this.

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After another disappointing playoff finish last June, Melvin Martinez gathered his team together in the stands at MCU Park. There, shocking everyone from longtime players to assistant coaches he has known all his life Martinez announced his plans to retire.

I felt like they needed a new coach, Martinez said on the eve of leading second-seeded Grand Street into its first baseball final against No. 4 George Washington Friday at 7 p.m. in Coney Island. Ive had some great talent for so many years. Not to ever make the championship, maybe its the coaching. I was beginning to feel like someone else should take over.

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Grand Street Campus coach Melvin Martinez nearly retired after last season, but stuck with it and has the Wolves within one win of their first city title.

The response shocked Martinez. Virtually the entire team, fresh off a humbling sweep at the hands of Tottenville, reacted with anger and disbelief. In the coming days and weeks, he was borderline harassed by players to stay, ace left-hander Gerry Gonzalez, Maryland-bound shortstop Jose Cuas and catcher/third baseman Ernesto Lopez leading the charge.

Lopez, in fact, threatened to quit and Cuas said he and his younger brother Alex came to Grand Street because of Martinez.

We wanted to win a ring with him, Lopez said. We told him, next year, our last year, dont do that to us. We were trying to do anything to make him stay.

The team went to Martinezs wife, Lori, too, begging her to convince him. Over the summer, he mulled over the decision, weighing the positives and negatives. In August, at Loris urging, he relented and decided to return.

She knew I would be depressed if I wasnt coaching, said the 43-year-old Martinez, an assistant principal at P.S. 257 in Brooklyn.

Early in September, he sent out a text to the team for fall practice. There, the teams leaders promised Martinez a title, which they are one win away from. Martinez, in his 17th season, has been reinvigorated this spring, coaching this loaded team that has won 20 straight games against PSAL foes after a surprising league-opening loss to Midwood.

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The Gift of Stoppage Time author thinks it may be time to give Cal FC coach and FOX Soccer Analyst Eric Wynalda his shot at the big-time.

The most entertaining moment of Seattles 5-0 thrashing of amateur club Cal FC in Open Cup action Tuesday night in Seattle was Sigi Schmids post-game comment that his team wasnt used to facing teams who use a sweeper. Eric Wynalda of all people, bringing back the sweeper! And why not? Unfortunately it would have been an even LONGER night had his team played flat in the back.

But tactics aside, Seattle looked fitter, stronger, more organized and plain better. The Sounders are a good club and it was refreshing to hear Sigi also say in his post-game comments that his club takes any tournament they enter very seriously. There is a reason they are the defending three-time champion of the Open Cup. Maybe you and some others dont think its a big deal? Its still a trophy. And soccer at the highest levels is about collecting trophies. There are other clubs in MLS who DO NOT take the Open Cup seriously. In fact, there are clubs in MLS that I dont think take ANYTHING seriously they are so bad. Youve got to win something at some point. And the good thing about Seattle is that even though MLS CUP has eluded them, they are heavily favored every year now to win the Open Cup and that is nothing to scoff at.

Credit to Cal FC for keeping things close through the halftime whistle, but I could tell even from very early in the game that Cal FC would be chasing the game for 90 minutes. Seattle looked organized, strong, serious and confident. And once the first goal went in, the floodgates opened and they did, really, what all MLS teams should do to amateur teamsthey beat them handily.

And again, this is no disrespect to Cal FCa week earlier Cal FC sent the Portland Timbers home from the tournament in from of the Timbers HOME CROWD! What a great run by Cal FC and hopefully some of their players are given the proper opportunity at the pro level to show themselves. And credit to their coach, US Soccer Hall of Famer Eric Wynalda who engineered their great run with limited practices and resources.

Should Wynalda finally get the MLS coaching gig that he maybe deserves? Absolutely! Do you think anybody in MLS will actually take a risk on him? NO.

Why? Because hes not in the club (coaching club)and we all know it. But I dare anybody to hire him (Toronto, would it really hurt to hire him at this point?) because he will win games and he does KNOW the game and he will be the first to admit that if he is NOT getting results FIRE ME!

How is Bruce Arena not under the gun in LA? Can anybody be given more resources yet not achieve anything close to the proper results this season? Why not Wynalda? Nobody will try it. But I guarantee that whoever does will see results. Hes not half the joker that some of the coaches out there are.

Mark Vincent Lincir is the author of THE GIFT OF STOPPAGE TIME

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GRANITE FALLS, N.C. The baseball fields at the Granite Falls Recreation Department are busy with teams and tournaments, but parents on Wednesday said they'll watch their children there a little closer.

Dirk Walker Monseur, an assistant coach of a baseball team of kids between the ages of six and eight, is charged with violating the North Carolina Sex Offender's Registry.

"Stunned, I'm very stunned," said Jermaine James, whose son has played in the league for four years.

Caldwell County detectives arrested Monseur after receiving an anonymous tip.

"It does worry me to learn someone could be working so closely to my son knowing they're a child sex offender," said little league mother Amber Zaremba. She has lived in Granite Falls for most of her life. She said the league is considered a good one, with caring and loving coaches. "It's really shocking to hear."

Monseur, 34, is not accused of harming any children in Granite Falls. He was arrested and convicted in Florida in 2002 for committing a lewd and lascivious act against a child under the age of sixteen. He spent more than three years in prison for that conviction.

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Tia Palauni readies in the field during a Utah softball game this spring. The graduating senior is now embracing life as a coach and social worker. Coutesy Trev Mozingo

Softball Tia Palauni ready for next stage of her life.

For former Taylorsville standout Tia Palauni, it is hard to remember a time when softball was not a part of her life.

After winning a state championship and garnering all-state honors at Taylorsville, Palauni went on to play at the University of Utah. Like most players, Palauni experienced ups and downs at Utah, but she capped her career a few weeks ago with a solid senior season. She was named to the Pac-12 all-conference honorable mention team.

Tia Palauni working on next stage

Garnered Pac-12 honorable mention during her senior season

Entering into a career in social work

Sticking with softball as a youth coach

Now, for the first time in years, Palauni is not a softball player. She is an ex-player looking to translate what she learned on the softball field into success in everyday life.

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Pierre Lueders realizes some folks might look on his acceptance of the job as head coach of the Russian bobsled team as a defection of sorts.

But the face of the Canadian bobsled team for the better part of two decades is happy to explain the realities of life coaching elite amateur sport.

Despite all the romanticism surrounding the Olympics, coaches come and coaches go from country to country to country, Lueders says. In many ways, the five-ring circus is more like the National Football League or National Hockey League than most people think.

"It's no different than if Brent Sutter is coaching the Calgary Flames one month and then two months later, he's coaching the Edmonton Oilrs," said Lueders, a transplanted Ed-montonian living in Calgary. "It's a business now. I paid my loyalties to Canada as an athlete and then some as a coach as well.

"Coaching is a business. At the end of the day, the challenge and the opportunity of coaching in Russia is very much like when I was a young guy starting in bobsleigh."

In other words, he's pumped.

Just last week, Lueders announced his resignation as development coach for the Canadian team. He later told the Herald he wanted to spend more time with his family while he considered his options.

As it turns out, the 41-year-old entertained coaching offers from three countries. Canada wanted him to stay on in an elevated role, per-haps as a technical coach. Another country (Lueders refused to say which one, but Switzerland is a good bet) asked him to come over as head coach.

The Russian offer proved too tantalizing to turn down.

"This is a tremendous offer to coach a host nation at the Olympics," Lueders said. "I was very fortunate that I was an athlete preparing at a home Olympics, so I have a pretty good perspective on what I was like as an athlete."

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LEXINGTON, Ky., June 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --If you are looking to promote a healthy work environment, encourage less stressful professional practices, and help employees become more efficient, June is a great time to start by partnering with a professional coach.

This month is Professional Wellness Month, also known as Occupational or Career Wellness Month, and was originally founded by Words of Wellness to help people live an overall healthier life. It also offers a great opportunity to help others find ways to make improvements in their lives - which is exactly the purpose of professional coaching.

"Achieving professional wellness can be done in many ways, and one way we know to increase effectiveness occurs by partnering with a professional coach," said ICF Global President and Master Certified Coach Janet M. Harvey. "Updating your resume or learning a new skill might help you get to the next step in your career, and when coaching occurs or is added to those steps individuals more clearly define and achieve overall career goals with long-lasting results."

"Optimizing individual or team work performance" was the top reason people chose to partner with a coach, according to the 2010 ICF Global Consumer Awareness Study conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Coaching has been proven to help people attain their professional goals and this can naturally translate to a sense of professional wellness. In fact, the 2009 ICF Global Coaching Client Study, also conducted by PwC with Association Resource Centre Inc., showed that 82 percent of respondents saw a positive change in their goal area of "work performance." Positive change was also seen in goal areas of team effectiveness, wellness, business management, work-life balance, career opportunities, time management, and more.

"Professional Wellness Month is the perfect time to start working with a professional coach," Harvey concluded.

What will you do this month to focus on your professional well-being? Are there other changes you can make in your busy professional life? During Professional Wellness Month, the ICF encourages you to explore how partnering with a professional coach can help you improve your personal work performance. To find an ICF Credentialed coach, visit the Coach Referral Service at http://Coachfederation.org/CRS

The International Coach Federation is the leading global organization for coaches, with over 21,000 members in more than 100 countries and over 7,900 credentialed coaches worldwide. ICF is dedicated to advancing the coaching profession by setting high ethical standards, providing independent certification, and building a worldwide network of credentialed coaches. Coaching is a distinct service and differs greatly from therapy, consulting, mentoring, or training. ICF defines coaching as partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.coachfederation.org.

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Sam Elliott, +1.859.219.3550 Samuel.elliott@coachfederation.org

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