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About the Obesity Institute
The Obesity Institute at Children’s National brings together a comprehensive group of physicians, researchers and health professionals to find strategic and innovative solutions to childhood obesity.
Children’s National seeks to tackle the issue of childhood obesity through 5 areas:
The Obesity Institute has two weight-loss programs for children and adolescents: The IDEAL Clinic, that provides comprehensive medical management, and the Weight-Loss Surgery Program, that offers two types of bariatric surgery for children.
The mission of the Obesity Institute at Children’s National is:
- To advance clinical care that achieves healthy growth by developing, validating, and disseminating best practices in prevention and intervention for overweight children from birth to age 21 years.
- To foster novel research in genomics, proteomics, and epigenetics that provides evidence for optimizing clinical care for individuals to achieve healthy body weight
About the childhood obesity epidemic
Environmental, social, economic, behavioral and genetic factors all contribute to today’s childhood obesity epidemic.
Children’s National Medical Center has a group of clinicians, researchers and healthcare professionals dedicated to fighting childhood obesity. Their collaborative efforts help identify issues and seek solutions as well as communicate findings to government officials and community leaders, and to work creatively and constructively with parents and families.
As recommended by the Institute of Medicine, the Obesity Institute addresses the challenge "to develop a robust evidence base of effective obesity prevention interventions and practices."
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