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Children's Foundation is
unveiling Get Fit, Get Right
(www.getfitgetright.org), an
online program designed to
reduce obesity in teens and
prevent type 2 diabetes and
weight-related conditions such
as blindness, amputation,
renal failure, hypertension
and heart disease. 'We need a
program like Get Fit, Get
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Starlight Starbright
Children's Foundation is
unveiling Get Fit, Get Right
(www.getfitgetright.org), an
online program designed to
reduce obesity in teens and
prevent type 2 diabetes and
weight-related conditions such
as blindness, amputation,
renal failure, hypertension
and heart disease. 'We need a
program like Get Fit, Get
Right because over the last
few years, I've seen, as so
many colleagues across the
globe have, an explosion of
type 2 diabetes in youth,'
said Francine Kaufman, M.D.,
Get Fit, Get Right's medical
director and head of the
Center for Diabetes and
Endocrinology at Children's
Hospital Los Angeles. 'If we
don't intervene, it will lead
to devastating health
consequences in our children.
We need to explain to
teenagers in particular that
they can do something to
prevent this, if they start
living a healthy lifestyle
today.'

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