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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.

I'm coming to you from the campus of America's largest children's hospital, nationwide children's.

We're in Columbus, Ohio.

It's episode 369 for February 22nd, 2017.

We're calling this one Picky Eaters and Pet Medication. I want to welcome everyone to the program.

So this is one of those episodes that I think will end up taking on a life of its own. And the

reason I say that is because pediatricians face questions about picky eaters really nearly every day in the course of our office practice.

Now, to be sure, overeating, high fat diets, childhood obesity, common problems, and ones that

sometimes get more attention in the news, in magazine articles, newspapers, blog posts.

You know, we hear about overeating and childhood obesity all the time.

I don't think we hear quite as much about picky eaters in the press, and yet pediatricians

get asked about picky eating all the time, especially during the toddler years.

Now, we've covered picky eating a couple of times in the past on Pediacast.

In fact, as recently as episode 326, we talked about how common this problem is,

with one research study reporting that about 18% of all children of every age would be considered a moderately picky eater.

And another 3% is seriously, so severely selective in their eating.

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