This is PediCast.

Welcome to Pediacast, a pediatric podcast for parents.

And now, direct from the campus of nationwide children's, here is your host, Dr. Mike.

Hello, everyone, and welcome once again to Pediacast.

It's a pediatric podcast for moms and dads.

This is Dr. Mike coming to you from the campus of Nationwide Children's Hospital.

We're in Columbus, Ohio.

It is October 8th, 2014.

Episode number 297, we're calling this one New You, Play Strong, an ounce of prevention.

I want to welcome everyone to the show.

So we have a roundtable discussion today on a

trio of programs from nationwide children's hospital. The goal of these programs is to prevent

and combat childhood obesity, to encourage healthy nutrition, and to educate and provide

opportunity for children, teenagers, and their families to engage in safe, age

appropriate, and fitness appropriate physical activities. Now, I realize that the majority of

my audience is not in Central Ohio, as we have listeners from just about everywhere. So why

should you care about our healthy weight programs here in Columbus?

Well, in the course of talking about these programs,

I suspect that we'll provide lots of great take-home nuggets,

just bits of information on healthy nutrition and physical activity that you can apply today

and for every member of your family.

So stick with us, even if nationwide children's is

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