Anti-Obesity Program Helps Young Staten Islanders Live Healthy
Lives The Department of Health says one in five New York City
kindergartners are obese, but a program that has been at Staten
Island University Hospital for 10 years has brought together a
team of experts to fight the childhood obesity epidemic. NY1's
Bree Driscoll filed the following report. To view our videos,
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come back here and refresh the page. The Centers for Disease
Control say childhood obesity has more than tripled in the last
30 years and can lead to a whole host of serious illnesses. Dr.
Carmen Torrado-Jule says they include, "Chronic high blood
pressure, heart disease, stroke and infertility in females." The
Healthy Lifestyle For Kids program at Staten Island University
Hospital in Ocean Breeze has been serving children ages 8 to 18
for the last decade. Torrado-Jule is its director. "It helps
them to identify those obstacles and helps them find out what
they need to change in