Children's Health & Fitness ? Childhood Obesity Dominant Issue At ...

May 31st, 2012 by Len Saunders

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Research from the UVa Children?s Hospital is on display as doctors and students share their latest work in the efforts to keep kids healthy.

Some of the projects included treating kids with deadly food allergies, finding better ways to manage asthma, recognizing illness in infants, and studies on how to reduce obesity rates among kids. The chair of the Pediatrics Department at UVa Children?s Hospital, Dr. Jim Nataro, says prevention is the key.

?The most important thing we do is keep kids healthy. We want to keep them at home and keep them in school. We want to keep them out of the doctor?s office when we can and we want to keep them out of the hospitals. The key is preventive medicine and understanding what we can do to make sure kids don?t get into trouble,? said Dr. Nataro.

In all, about 50 research projects were on display. All of the research on display was done over the last year by doctors and residents at the UVa Children?s Hospital.

The topic dominating this research symposium on Children?s health was how to deal with childhood obesity.

?There?s been an overall increase in prevalence of obesity across the nation in the last ten to twenty years,? said Dr. Stephanie Grice, Pediatrics Resident.

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