Battling children's obesity

Boston Globe
September 6, 2011

HOW’S THIS for an unlikely weapon against obesity: On 10-year-old Ezra Fellman-Blau’s first visit to the child-obesity clinic at Children’s Hospital, Dr. David Ludwig offers the boy a piece of chocolate...

And the problem is growing, nationwide and close to home. Today, one-third of Massachusetts children are overweight or obese, according to a recent report from the Boston Foundation and the New England Healthcare Institute. In 2009, nearly half of the state’s public school students attended no gym classes at all...

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