Posts Tagged BMI

Overweight

Overweight

Can we talk about a sensitive subject? I’d like to share my perspective and experience from where I have landed after 24 years as a pediatric dietitian. Overweight. I see children and families for being overweight, underweight, and everything in between. Families often reach out for nutrition

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Childhood Obesity Linked to Asthma

By Gia Diakakis, MS, RD, LDN, CNSC After working with countless families who face obesity and overweight issues, I thought I thought I thoroughly understood all there was to know about the impact pediatric obesity has on the body. That is, until I ran across this study:

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