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Doctor Gives Up Thriving Pediatric Practice to Help Children With Weight Struggles
A few years ago, Pediatrician Dr. Joanna Dolgoff decided she’d had enough.
She was watching one overweight child after another enter her office. She knew the stats: One in three children are overweight and obese. And 80 percent of those kids will struggle with weight problems as adults. And she knew this problem was growing. In the past 20 years, the number of overweight kids has increased by 50 percent.
Pediatricians spend an average of 7 minutes with their patients …
