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Dr. Robert Sawin, surgeon-in-chief at Seattle Children's, discusses weight-loss surgery in teens.
Healthlink: Childhood Obesity8.7.10
Seattle Children’s Dr. Mollie Greves Grow comments on what factors overweight kids have in common in King County, Washington. In a recent study, she found that neighborhoods with more single parents, less educated mothers, lower incomes, and more non-white residents had nearly 25% more kids with weight problems.
Healthlink: Childhood Obesity 20111.22.11
Teen weight management programs are slowly taking root at universities across the country. Locally, a program called the ACT program is available through some local YMCA facilities and is operated in partnership with Seattle Children's.
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