Childhood Obesity

In older children, a very common problem related to nutrition is obesity. The goal of helping your child who is overweight requires a combination of lifestyle and dietary changes.

These changes include:

• routine exercise
• limiting television and computer playing time
• restricting high calorie snacks
• developing healthy eating habits

Frequently these changes need to involve the whole family in order to be successful.

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta has developed a program called FIT KIDS which addresses these issues in our community.  For more information on this program call (404)785-7236.