September is Child Obesity Awareness Month. The National Child Obesity Awareness Month (COAM) organization reports that more than 23 million children and teenagers in the U.S. are obese or overweight. COAM also notes that childhood obesity puts nearly one third of America’s children at early risk for Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and even stroke – conditions usually associated with adulthood.
Eugene Dinkevich, MD, is available to discuss how child obesity may be treated or managed with exercise and diet. Dr. Dinkevich is an associate professor of clinical pediatrics at SUNY Downstate Medical Center. Dr. Dinkevich has worked with children to help them achieve and maintain normal weight and healthy lifestyles in Brooklyn, New York for nearly a decade.
As the director of the Downstart Healthy Lifestyles center at SUNY Downstate, Dr. Dinkevich supervises a team of psychologists, physicians, and a dietician who evaluate overweight and obese children for medical and psychological factors associated with being obese and help them to make lifestyle and dietary changes to loose weight and to become more physically fit.
Dr. Dinkevich has lectured nationally about pediatric obesity and has published in this area. To speak with Dr. Dinkevich, please contact Ron Najman at 718-270-2696 (office) or 917-842-1901 (cell), or by email at [email protected].
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