Evaluating Pediatric Obesity

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Children and adolescents are expected to gain weight as they age, but how much is too much? Childhood obesity rates are on the rise, along with disordered eating among teens. So how can kids and their parents address this head on? Dr. Jack Yanovski, a pediatric endocrinologist at ...  Show more

Childhood obesity has reached epidemic rates in this country. What are the causes and what can we do about it? Listen this week as Cassie Weness and Kate Crosby discuss this problem.

Childhood obesity has tripled in the past thirty years.  Thirty percent of our children are overweight and twenty percent are considered to be obese.  This week Darlene Kvist, LN, Cassie Weness, RD and Tamara Brown, RD explain how processed and fast foods play a part in this epid ...  Show more

About 20% of adolescents in the US are living with obesity. Author Aaron S. Kelly, PhD, of the University of Minnesota Medical School joins JAMA Senior Editor Karen E. Lasser, MD, MPH, to discuss Obesity in Adolescents: A Review.

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