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All the while, their parents were somewhere else: In the waiting room, at home, healthy at the Kentucky Fried Chicken drive-through lane. The kids may have become experts at nutrition, but, not surprisingly, they weren't always champions at weight loss. It was Annie's severe weight problem in her preteens that ultimately motivated her mother Susan to slim down herself. "I knew that it's hard for mothers and daughters in the teen years to talk healthy about almost anything," she says. "But I don't think anything gets harder than food and weight issues. So I realized the best thing I could do for her was to model the solution." Doctors and dietitians who turn all of their attention on overweight children and teenagers may be missing the real target. In many cases, it's the parents who need help. Consider two different treatment programs described in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. In one program, overweight children attended 30 sessions where they learned about the value of diet and exercise.
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