By Peter Laird, MD
One of the most important risk factors for diabetes, renal disease, cardiovascular disease as well as cancer is obesity. Unfortunately, today's children are in the middle of an epidemic of inactivity and obesity which will reap serious illness outcomes much earlier than previous generations. Adult Onset Diabetes is now routinely encountered in the pediatric population. Robert H. Eckel, a professor from the University of Colorado and past president of the American Heart Association gives advice on how doctors can impact the obesity epidemic in this Medpage webcast.
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