NYU Langone Health – Perri Klass, M.D. and Mary J. Messito, M.D.
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has raised worries about children’s weight gain, perhaps exacerbated by the absence of school, not to mention sports and other activities that used to give structure to the day and mark off some no-eating zones. Even when we’re not in the middle of a pandemic, there are many tensions around what to say and do at pediatric visits when a child’s weight is increasing too quickly, Perri Klass, MD, professor in NYU Langone’s Department of Pediatrics, writes in The New York Times.
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