Orlando is going to have a new obesity center

November 28, 2005

Nemours, a well known children's health system known is planning to open an obesity center in Orlando to deal with the rising problem of childhood obesity. The new obesity center, which is going to open next summer inside Nemours' planned new clinic to be built near the Mall at Millenia. The main aim of the clinic is to remove obesity from the root.

Dr. Reinaldo Figueroa of Nemours in the Orlando division of gastroenterology and nutrition will lead the center's multidisciplinary team, which will include a pediatrician trained in gastroenterology and nutrition, a dietitian, exercise physiologist/physical therapists, psychologists and a social worker. It will help to curtail the increasing number of obese children in and around the area.

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