Starlight Starbright Unveils Get Fit, Get Right, a Program to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes and Weight-related Conditions in Teens
By MultiVu Video, published Oct 31, 2007Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation is unveiling Get Fit, Get Right (www.getfitgetright.org), an online program designed to reduce obesity in teens and prevent type 2 diabetes and weight-related conditions such as blindness, amputation, renal failure, hypertension and heart disease.
"We need a program like Get Fit, Get Right because over the last few years, I've seen, as so many colleagues across the globe have, an explosion of type 2 diabetes in youth," said Francine Kaufman, M.D., Get Fit, Get Right's medical director and head of the Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. "If we don't intervene, it will lead to devastating health consequences in our children. We need to explain to teenagers in particular that they can do something to prevent this, if they start living a healthy lifestyle today."
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"We need a program like Get Fit, Get Right because over the last few years, I've seen, as so many colleagues across the globe have, an explosion of type 2 diabetes in youth," said Francine Kaufman, M.D., Get Fit, Get Right's medical director and head of the Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. "If we don't intervene, it will lead to devastating health consequences in our children. We need to explain to teenagers in particular that they can do something to prevent this, if they start living a healthy lifestyle today."
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