Success Stories
Meet our participants
The Pediatric Weight Control Program has helped children in our local community to lose weight and learn how to incorporate healthy habits into their lives. Please read the stories and watch the videos below to meet some of our past participants and their families.
Success Stories:
Media coverage
- Pediatric Weight Control Program Turns Ellen’s Life Around - 12/10/14, Healthier, Happy Lives Blog
- Pediatric Weight Control Program improves the health of two sisters and their families - 10/14/14, Healthier, Happy Lives Blog
- “Fighting childhood obesity, it’s a family affair” - NPR 11/28/11. Past Participant, 11 year old Gabriel Rodriguez is featured in this story along with Behavior Coach Thea Runyan, MPH and Program Director Cindy Zedeck, MA
- Watch a video - (YouTube) of a December 2007 NBC Today Show segment on the Pediatric Weight Control Program and its success.
- Read or listen to a November 2006 NPR segment - Tom Robinson, MD, MPH, Director of the Center for Healthy Weight, and Cindy Zedeck, Program Director of the Pediatric Weight Control Program, were featured
- Watch Alberto Hidalgo's story - Watch past participant Alberto Hidalgo speak about his experience in the program
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