Paediatrician Saskia Bouma has been running her own practice “Positive Over Weight” in Amsterdam Bijlmer the last several years. She guides overweight children and their parents towards a healthy lifestyle. Every day she sees the problems that confront overweight children. How do these children deal with it?…
How do you live healthy as an adolescent? Do you need to sleep at least eight hours a night and take 10,000 steps every day? And just how bad is it if you don’t each much fruit? Healthy eating gets a lot of press, but just what is really…
8 vegetable tips from a paediatrician, because: ‘Without vegetables, achieving a healthy weight is difficult’
For the last several years, Paediatrician Saskia Bouma has been running her own practice Positive-Over-Weight in Amsterdam Bijlmer. She guides overweight children and their parents to a healthy lifestyle. Every day she sees…
Dr. Bouma was a guest on the “Pointer” episode: “Leven in Luilekkerland” (Living in the Land of Milk and Honey”).
Click here to watch the episode (in Dutch).
Dr. Saskia blogs over her work as a pediatrician and obesity specialist.
These are actual cases, but the names and ages have been changed to protect the privacy of the patients.
You can read the blogs here (in Dutch):
Dr. Saskia Bouma is interviewed by Richard de Leth for the OERsterk podcast series. OERsterk is “the platform for a better life.” In this episode, Dr. Saskia discusses why more attention should be given to healthy lifestyle choices for children.
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Dr. Saskia Bouma will be presenting a free webinar on overweight children and a healthy lifestyle on February 17th at 8:00pm. Especially in today’s times it is clearer than ever how important a healthy lifestyle is. Every parent wants that for their child. But is it that easy to…
Dr. Saskia Bouma will be presenting a webinar on overweight children and a healthy lifestyle on October 28th at 8:00pm. Especially in today’s times it is clearer than ever how important a healthy lifestyle is. Every parent wants that for their child. But is it that…
The Pediatric Practice offers the option of video consults.
We can schedule a first or follow-up appointment via a video connection using our secure client portal. It took a little getting used to at first, but after a few weeks, we and our patients are very happy with the results….
Corona crisis or not, healthcare for children marches on! Within the guidelines issued by the Dutch National Institute for Public Health (RIVM), of course. Working together, we’ll come up with a plan to help your child. If your child needs to be seen by the pediatrician, then that is…
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Dr. Saskia Bouma in podcast BNR