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A New Problem For Obese Children: Bowel Control

  • September 02, 2004

With the obesity epidemic in high gear, especially among our nation's kids, the predominant worry has been the incidence of diabetes, and rightly so. About a month ago, I blogged a news item about the growing incidence of pediatricians being the weak link in the obesity failure chain. The study found in 66 percent of the office visits by obese children at a Pittsburgh hospital, pediatricians didn't indicate a child was overweight. A new study points out how badly physicians missed the...