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Healthy Living: Weight Control for Kids
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Littleton Regional Hospital’s (LRH) North Country Pediatrics practice is leading the way for overweight children in northern New Hampshire to have the chance to develop healthy habits, which will improve their lives for years to come. Pediatric obesity affects the well being of children in many ways. It causes conditions affecting almost every part of the body. As overweight children go through their teens into adulthood, they have a greater chance of developing an early onset of heart disease, diabetes, increased cholesterol, and high blood pressure, stroke, arthritis, gall bladder disease, and many other conditions. In addition, obese children are more prone to poor self-esteem, social isolation, anxiety, and depression. But, if the obesity problem can be tackled while they are still young, there is a very good chance that those children will grow up to be normal weight adults.
Littleton Regional Hospital will be offering a multidisciplinary program scheduled to begin in July 2008 for children between the ages of 4 and 18 years and their families.
This program will provide ways to make lifestyle changes by increasing activity level, decreasing “screen” time (T.V., video games, computer time, etc.), eating a healthy diet, and dealing with some behavioral issues.
For more information about LRH’s Healthy Living: Weight Control for Kids, please call LRH’s North Country Pediatrics at (603) 444-2803 or Deb Tewksbury, LRH’s Food and Nutrition services department at (603) 444-9545.
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