A panel of national health experts, physicians and educators will share their thoughts about the causes of and remedies for obese children and adolescents at a town hall forum on childhood obesity prevention at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 15 at the Glazer Children\u2019s Museum, 110 W. Gasparilla Plaza.<\/p>\n
The event is sponsored by members of the Tampa Chapter of The Links, Incorporated and their community partners \u2013 Boys & Girls Clubs, Children\u2019s Board of Hillsborough County, General Mills, HealthyState.org, Publix and the W. K. Kellogg Foundation.<\/p>\n
Southern Area Director Mary F. Currie<\/strong>, who has called childhood obesity \u201cone of the most critical health problems affecting thousands of children,\u201d will attend Friday\u2019s event.\u00a0 Doretha Edgecomb<\/strong>, chairperson of the Hillsborough County Public School Board, is one of the panelists and WFLA Ch. 8 news anchor Rod Carter<\/strong> will moderate the session.<\/p>\n The Tampa Chapter was one of seven chapters from the Southern Area of The Links to receive a grant to implement a childhood obesity prevention curriculum to address the underlying causes of childhood obesity.<\/p>\n Patricia E. Miles<\/strong>, chairperson of the Tampa chapter\u2019s National Trends and Services committee, said the forum will address the issue of childhood with a larger audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A panel of national health experts, physicians and educators will share their thoughts about the causes of and remedies for obese children and adolescents at a town hall forum on childhood obesity prevention at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 15 at the Glazer Children\u2019s Museum, 110 W. Gasparilla Plaza. The event is sponsored by members […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}