Environmental Health Nutrition

What and how you eat as a child will have a lasting effect on the rest of your life. In this interview, an expert in children’s nutrition talks about a variety of issues involving children’s nutrition, including obesity rates and children who may fall behind the growth curve with a condition known as failure-to-thrive.

Part One:
When is a child overweight?
Health risks for overweight children
Dietary concerns
Barriers to physical activity
Parents setting a good example

Part Two:
Infant feeding problems
Failure to thrive
Associated health problems
Medical causes
Social/economic influences
Treating feeding problems

Guest:
Dr. Maureen Black, a psychologist and director of the pediatric nutrition clinic at the University of Maryland Hospital for Children. Dr. Black is also a professor of pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

Links:
Children’s Nutrition (Part 1)

Children’s Nutrition (Part 2)

University of Maryland Hospital for Children
http://www.umm.edu/pediatrics/

Duration : 0:9:40

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What and how you eat as a child will have a lasting effect on the rest of your life. In this interview, an expert in children’s nutrition talks about a variety of issues involving children’s nutrition, including obesity rates and

children who may fall behind the growth curve with a condition known as failure-to-thrive.

Part One:
When is a child overweight?
Health risks for overweight children
Dietary concerns
Barriers to physical activity
Parents setting a good example

Part Two:
Infant feeding problems
Failure to thrive
Associated health problems
Medical causes
Social/economic influences
Treating feeding problems

Guest:
Dr. Maureen Black, a psychologist and director of the pediatric nutrition clinic at the University of Maryland Hospital for Children. Dr. Black is also a professor of pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of

Medicine.

Links:
Children’s Nutrition (Part 1)

Children’s Nutrition (Part 2)

University of Maryland Hospital for Children
http://www.umm.edu/pediatrics/

Duration : 0:16:54

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