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Childhood Obesity Epidemic-What is the solution?

This week on "Saturday Mornings with Joy Keys"-podcast-Why does it happen? Who is responsible? What is the solution?

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PRLog (Press Release) - Jul 15, 2009 -
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. EST

When: Saturday July 18, 2009

Go To: www.blogtalkradio.com/joykeys to listen on your computer

Call: (646) 929-0368 to listen on your cell or home phone

Special Guest: Dr. Apovian is an Associate Editor of the Obesity Journal and is co-editor of the Obesity and Nutrition Section of Current Opinion in Endocrinology and Diabetes. Dr. Apovian serves on the Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety and Medical Error Reduction Expert Panel on Weight Loss Surgery for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Dr. Carol Apovian is the Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine; Director, Nutrition and Weight Management Center at Boston Medical Center; Director, Clinical Research at the Obesity Research Center of Boston Medical Center.

Special Guest: Dr. Silva Arslanian, a a pediatric endocrinologist at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh for more than 20 years, is an internationally recognized expert in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes in youth, obesity, insulin resistance, polycystic ovary syndrome and metabolic syndrome in childhood, Dr. Arslanian has traveled throughout the world educating and lecturing other scientists and clinicians.Dr. Arslanian is the Richard L. Day Endowed Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.  She is the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded Pediatric Clinical and Translational Research Center at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, the principal investigator of the NIH-funded Diabetes Fellowship Training (T32) and Pediatric Diabetes Scholars Program (K12), and Director of Children’s Hospital’s Weight Management & Wellness Center.

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You can listen to archives of previous shows by going to www.blogtalkradio.com/joykeys. Check out the podcasts on The State of Young Black Males with Kevin Powell, Diabetes with singer Angie Stone, Domestic Violence with Women in Transition, Breast Cancer with the American Cancer Society, and Living with Lupus with Mercedes Scelba-Shorte from America’s Next Top Model, Women in Technology with Dr. Telle Whitney, and many more.

For more information about “Saturday Mornings with Joy Keys” call: 267-288-7386 or
email: saturdayswithjoykeys@hotmail.com.

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“Saturday Mornings with Joy Keys” is an interactive, live Internet talk-radio show that focuses on providing people with tools to enrich and advance their lives mentally, physically and emotionally

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