RealAge Expert Jennifer Trachtenberg, MD, Joins AOL Coaches to Help Parents Create Healthy Habits for Children
SAN DIEGO, July 30 /PRNewswire/ — RealAge, Inc., announced that Jennifer Trachtenberg, MD, chief pediatric officer of RealAge.com, will join AOL Coaches (http://coaches.aol.com/) as the expert on kids’ healthy living. Trachtenberg joins an impressive roster of such esteemed coaches and best- selling authors as Dr. Michael Roizen, Jean Chatzky, John Gray, and Steven Covey.
Dr. Trachtenberg is host of the Parenting Center on RealAge.com and the author of the popular parenting book Good Kids, Bad Habits: The RealAge Guide to Raising Healthy Children. Her feature on AOL Coaches will include excerpts from the book and an abridged version of the interactive RealAge Healthy Kids Test, a science-based questionnaire that provides a baseline measurement of how healthy a child’s habits are today and predicts how those habits may affect that child’s overall health — or RealAge — as an adult. The complete RealAge Healthy Kids Test provides a parent and child with a personalized action plan, which includes simple changes that result in lifelong health benefits.
“I am thrilled to extend my healthy-kids initiative through AOL and become an AOL Coach,” stated Dr. Trachtenberg. “I’ve seen pediatrics change drastically. These are good kids; it’s modern life that invites unhealthy habits. My program teaches families how to make small changes that have a big impact for years to come.”
AOL Coaches is the premier online destination for self-improvement, providing solutions and answers to people’s most pressing questions in the areas of diet and fitness; wellness; business and careers; money; kids and family; and love and sex. The site connects life coaches and experts with millions of users by offering original, interactive, and on-demand programming.
Dr. Trachtenberg is a nationally renowned parenting expert and board- certified pediatrician. She has practiced pediatric and adolescent medicine for more than 12 years and maintains a successful private pediatric practice in New York City. She is also a clinical instructor in pediatrics at The Mount Sinai Medical Center, a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and a mother of three young children. Dr. Jen has appeared on NBC’s Today show and CNN Headline News, among other programs. She has published articles on various health and parenting topics, including child development and childhood obesity.
About Good Kids, Bad Habits: The RealAge Guide to Raising Healthy Children
Written by RealAge.com chief pediatric officer Jennifer Trachtenberg, MD, Good Kids, Bad Habits supports parents who want their children to develop the right habits in a world that invites the wrong ones. By helping parents identify and make simple behavioral changes, the book — in combination with the RealAge.com Parenting Center (http://www.realage.com/parenting) — helps children grow into healthy adults with lifelong healthy habits. Released February 2007 by Collins, a division of HarperCollins, it includes a foreword by Michael F. Roizen, MD, and Mehmet C. Oz, MD, best-selling authors of the YOU books — the new YOU: On a Diet, YOU: The Owner’s Manual, and YOU: The Smart Patient.
About RealAge.com
RealAge.com provides the knowledge, motivation, and confidence to help people achieve their health and wellness goals. The site features the patented RealAge Test, the most widely used method for measuring overall health. Over 17 million people have measured their RealAge and received a personalized, science-based plan to make their RealAge younger. RealAge.com also features more than 40 additional health-risk assessments, as well as health tips and information. The site is the official online home to Good Kids, Bad Habits: The RealAge Guide to Raising Healthy Children, along with the best-selling RealAge and YOU books.
About AOL
AOL(R) is a global Web services company that operates some of the most popular Web destinations, offers a comprehensive suite of free software and services, runs one of the largest Internet access businesses in the U.S., and provides a full set of advertising solutions. A majority-owned subsidiary of Time Warner Inc. , AOL LLC is based in Dulles, Virginia. AOL and its subsidiaries also have operations in Europe, Canada and Asia. Learn more at AOL.com.
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