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Child Obesity - Part One -- The Clinical Approach

Series: Child Obesity -- A Community's Response
From: Karen Brown
Length: 00:05:05

One health center in Holyoke, MA addresses the 50 percent rate of overweight and obese children in this predominantly low-income, Puerto Rican community. Read the full description.

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Piece Description

Childhood obesity has become a public health crisis in America – and one of first lady Michelle Obama’s main causes. More than thirty percent of all children in America -- about 11 million -- are considered clinically overweight or obese. In Holyoke, Massachusetts, which has many Puerto Rican and low-income residents, the problem is even worse than the national average. In the first of a series, Karen brown reports how one community health center is trying to reverse this trend.

Broadcast History

first aired as a series on WFCR in Amherst, MA on July 6, 7, 8, 2010

Transcript

CHILDHOOD OBESITY1 - THE CLINICAL APPROACH

Childhood obesity has become a public health crisis in America – and one of first lady Michelle Obama’s main causes. More than thirty percent of all children in America -- about 11 million -- are considered clinically overweight or obese. In Holyoke, Massachusetts, which has many Puerto Rican and low-income residents, the problem is even worse than the national average. In the first of a series, Karen brown reports how one community health center is trying to reverse this trend.

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DOCTOR VINNIE BIGGS WALKS INTO AN EXAM ROOM AT THE HOLYOKE HEALTH CENTER, WHERE KIHUANNA ESPADA – A SHY, CHERUBIC NINE-YEAR-OLD -- IS PERCHED ON THE EXAM TABLE; HER MOTHER AND TEENAGE SISTER SIT NEARBY. KIHUANNA’S NOT SICK – BUT SHE’S NOT EXACTLY WELL. AT FOUR-FOOT-ONE, KIHUANNA WEIGHS 139 POUNDS. THE DOCTOR SPEAKS WITH HER MOM, KEE-UM...
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Timing and Cues

5:05 plus introduction

Intro and Outro

INTRO:

Childhood obesity has become a public health crisis in America – and one of first lady Michelle Obama’s main causes. More than thirty percent of all children in America -- about 11 million -- are considered clinically overweight or obese. In Holyoke, Massachusetts, which has many Puerto Rican and low-income residents, the problem is even worse than the national average. In the first of a series, Karen Brown reports how one community health center is trying to reverse this trend.

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