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Yvonne Abraham

Reducing weighty obstacles

If a mother like Teneka Williams struggles to keep her daughter from sliding into obesity, America is in big trouble. Williams is the kind of mother doctors at an obesity clinic dream of. Usually, parents need some convincing that their overweight kids have a problem, and they aren’t always ready to make changes. “Teneka has been incredible,’’ says Dr Elsie Taveras. And yet she has trouble keeping her daughter healthy.

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