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Children’s weight results to be released at BHSI symposium

By Denise H. Horton
dhorton@uga.edu

Results of the first study to document the percentage of Georgia’s children who are overweight will be released May 15 as part of the Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute’s second annual spring symposium.
The two-day symposium, titled “The Obesity-Diabetes Link: Mechanism to Intervention in Minority and Underserved Populations,” will begin May 14. Featured speakers will include Gov. Sonny Perdue and former U.S. surgeon general David Satcher, who currently directs the Morehouse School of Medicine’s National Center for Primary Care.
Richard Lewis, professor of foods and nutrition in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences, has conducted the children’s weight study in partnership with the Georgia Department of Community Health, the Georgia Department of Human Resources, and the Georgia Center for Obesity and Related Disorders. He will announce his findings at 9 a.m., May 15, at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education.
During the past 18 months, Lewis and his colleagues have weighed and measured more than 3,000 students in the fourth, eighth and 11th grades in 10 counties throughout the state. Based on the ratio of weight to height, a body-mass index was established for each child. Students also completed a questionnaire regarding their nutrition and physical activity patterns.
The symposium also will feature speakers from the University of Texas, the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of South Carolina, the Medical College of Georgia, and the Boston University and University of Alabama schools of medicine.

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