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Weight management program offers help for kids

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Weight management program focuses on children

The rate of childhood obesity has more than tripled in the last 30 years.

For some children, nothing has worked. Their families deal with feelings of frustration and failure. Now a unique inpatient treatment program is offering an aggressive intervention.

At age 11, Staecy Gonzalez noticed that along with developing as every girl does, the pounds began to pile on.

She explained, "I kept looking at myself getting bigger and bigger and not fitting into my clothes, and the depression got really bad. Everything was just horrible. I was called a whole lot of names, you know. People were very cruel about it."

Anti-anxiety medication only made things worse.

She added, "I started gaining a lot of weight. I'm talking about 8 pounds a week. It was really bad."

Her doctor recommended HealthBridge Children's Hospital's Obesity Program, the only inpatient weight management program for kids in the state.

When Staecy checked in, the 15 year old was 5 feet 3 inches tall and 268 pounds.

Program Director Dr. Sharonda Taylor told Local 2, "Some of the levels of childhood overweight and obesity have leveled off, but cases of higher excess body weight continue to move forward, and not everyone's successful in the outpatient side."

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