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Article: Clinic looking for young people for Fit Youth program
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- Daily Record, The Wooster, OH
- Article date:
- July 7, 2009
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By BOBBY WARREN
Staff Writer
WOOSTER -- With childhood obesity on the rise, the Cleveland
Clinic Wooster is looking for children between the ages of 7 and 11
to participate in a new program: Fit Youth.
Developed by Dr. Eileen Kennedy, a pediatric psychologist with
the Cleveland Clinic in Independence, the 12-week program will bring
together a pediatrician, psychologist, dietitian and exercise
physiologist to work with the children and their families.
The program will begin in September, and children and their
parents will meet for 90 minutes each week.
"The goal is to teach these kids healthy habits that hopefully
they will carry throughout their lives, especially in weight loss
and weight ...