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概述：In the Stanford Hospital,there are classes for overweight kids to lose weight through a six-month program with their families and coaches.What about the effect of the program? Would they like to go on these healthy diets?



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Silicon Valley
Sarah Varney
KQED
Stanford Hospital
Menlo Park
BMI
Gabriel Rodriguez
Burrito
Gloria Arteaga
Thea Runyan
With more American children becoming overweight, many parents are wondering how to talk to their children about weight. One program for families in Silicon Valley is both straightforward and successful. Here's Sarah Varney of member station KQED. It's already been a long day at school, and a long day at work, for most of these families. Yet here they are, gathered in a Stanford Hospital classroom in Menlo Park at 5:30 in the evening, cheerfully sorting through pizza boxes and canned soup to learn about what's in their food. "OK, we'll take one more question then unfortunately, we have to end. Yes? " "What if you have a family member who's picky?" The children here are all in the highest percentile for body mass index, or BMI. And they've signed up, with their parents, for a six-month, healthy eating and exercise boot camp. After the class, I meet up with Gabriel Rodriguez, an 11-year-old, sparkly-eyed, self-confessed burrito lover, and his mom. "Hi. Hi. Good to see you." Gabriel graduated from the program a few months ago, and he and his mom, Gloria Arteaga, are here tonight for their monthly check-in with their health coach, Thea Runyan. Gabriel and his mom meet Thea every month to measure his weight and height, and talk about how well he's sticking to his exercise and healthy eating goals. The program is designed around a traffic light system. Soda and cookies are reds. Other foods are yellows or greens. Reds aren't banned, but kids do set goals for bringing down how many they eat each month. They keep track of what they eat in a journal - the snacks after soccer practice, the pizza at school.