Sisters Fight Teen Obesity With Novel

Published July 23, 2010

Sisters fight teen obesity with novel
Local medical specialist hopes to reverse trend It was at a 2006 speech by Bill Clinton about pediatric obesity that Mary McGowan, an internal medicine specialist and director of Concord Hospital’s Cholesterol Treatment Center, decided she needed to step up to fight the trend of obesity in young people. She left the speech galvanized, realizing that “pediatric obesity was going to kill so many …
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