Prevention of Diabetes in Overweight/Obese Preadolescent Children

The family-based healthy lifestyle education and psychological education program will be followed once every two weeks (11 sessions over 22 weeks) for 90 minutes (45 minutes in the healthy lifestyle education program and 45 minutes in the psycho-educational intervention). The sessions of the healthy lifestyle education and psycho-educational interventions will be developed simultaneously and delivered to both parents (or caregivers) and children, separately. The family-based healthy lifestyle education program will be conducted by experienced nutritionists and the psycho-educational program by experienced psychologists in behavior changes

The intervention group will attend the same lifestyle education and psycho-educational program plus the exercise program. The exercise group will do exercise 3 days/week, 90 minutes per session, over a 22-week period. The program will be offered to the families five days per week to choose a total of three days/week. Sessions will be designed and supervised by exercise specialists. The duration of training sessions will be 90 minutes of exercise, including warm-up, moderate to vigorous aerobic activities, and strength exercises