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Article: Childhood obesity: what every parent needs to know about children's excessive weight and its dangers.(HOUSE CALL)
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- July 1, 2007
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Today, more kids have type 2 diabetes than ever because more children than ever are overweight and obese. Dr. Reginald Eadie, a board-certified emergency medicine physician and expert in childhood obesity, shares his knowledge on the problem of excessive weight.
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