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welcome to dishing up nutrition brought to you by Nutritional Weight and Wellness.

I'm Cassie Wieness, registered and licensed dietitian.

I want to thank all of you for joining us this morning, and as always, a special good morning to my two biggest fans, Riley, my 5-year-old and Rissy, my 3-year-old.

We have an especially important topic to share with all of you this morning,

and as a mom, this is a topic that really tears at my heart. Today we're going to be talking

about childhood obesity, which unfortunately is a growing epidemic in this country. And in studio

today, to share her nutrition knowledge on this subject is Kate Crosby. Kate is a nutrition

counselor at our Lakeville office. She also teaches corporate classes for us. And currently, I believe

you're teaching nutrition for weight loss, the series in Lakeville. Welcome, Kate. Thanks, Cassie.

It's great to be here. And you're right. This is a really, really important topic. If we don't start changing the waistline of America's kids now, we're really going to be headed down a dismal road, filled with an upcoming generation, even more ridden with heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure.

Can you believe it? High blood pressure, yeah.

Much worse than what we're seeing now.

Yeah.

Yeah, the statistics are alarming.

And when you look at how many obese kids are in this country, according to the Centers

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