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Tag Archives: childhood obesity
Preventing Childhood Obesity
By David Martin, President and CEO of VeinInnovations “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of a cure.” Benjamin Franklin is famous for many sayings. Today, this one feels prescient. In Georgia, we spend 2.4 billion dollars on obesity …
Families Gaining (and Losing!) Weight Together
By David Martin, President and CEO of VeinInnovations We begin teaching our children from almost the moment they’re born. Infants soak up our words to learn to speak, carrying on accents and dialects through what they hear. We teach our kids …
Interviews with Linda Matzigkeit
In the second of my four-part series of conversations with Linda Matzigkeit of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, we discuss the factors that led Children’s to become a more active, visible crusader against childhood obesity. The reasons shocked me. About one …
The Premier Interview with Linda Matzigkeit
This week, we introduce a series of interviews with Linda Matzigkeit, chief administrative officer of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Mrs. Matzigkeit was instrumental in launching the Strong4Life campaign in Georgia. The controversial obesity ads that made headlines over a year …
We’re So Heavy
By David Martin, President and CEO of VeinInnovations Summer is almost here. Stuck in winter doldrums, exercise is a bleak task. Now that the weather is warm, we’re staring out office windows and envious of school children with months of vacation ahead. …
