Obesity prevention and treatment are recurring topics explored in this blog, and for good reason. According to the official website for National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, more than 23 million U.S. children and teens are obese or overweight—an epidemic putting almost one third of this nation’s children at early risk for conditions usually not seen until adulthood, like Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, and stroke (not to mention gallstone disease, as highlighted in a recent post).
Three inspiring stories of kids who made changes in how they eat and move are now featured on the Kaiser Permanente Care Stories Blog. The videos, including the one below featuring college student Josie Clayton, show how these young people and their families made practical shifts in behavior and reaped health-improving results.
Read more about Josie here, and check out the other featured videos—stories from Austin Stanfill and Jesse Campos. For information, online resources and tools to promote September as National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, you can download the COAM’s official toolkit.
