May 18th, 2012 by Len Saunders
From the San Antonio Express
Pediatricians came together Friday with nutritionists and youth-fitness program leaders to found a new network to confront childhood obesity and diabetes in San Antonio and the surrounding area.
Led by the University of Texas Health Science Center, the new network ? dubbed CHURN, for Child Health Unified Research Network ? is aimed at connecting leaders from the city, county, military, nonprofits and academia so they can work together to fight the childhood obesity epidemic.
Across the city, initiatives are gaining steam to put healthier foods in front of children and to get them exercising.
?It?s been a sea change in the last five years,? said Mary Ullmann Japhet of San Antonio Sports, a nonprofit founded in 1984 to promote physical activity.
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