Word: neonatologists
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...Taken together, these policies represent a desperate and perhaps even radical attempt to contain the heart disease, diabetes and other metabolic consequences of an obesity epidemic that doctors believe has spiraled out of control. "We have to start somewhere," says Dr. Jatinder Bhatia, a neonatologist at the Medical College of Georgia and member of the advisory committee that spent two years devising the guidelines. Dr. David Ludwig, a pediatrician at Children's Hospital in Boston who was not involved in making the recommendations, agrees. "We have 8-year-olds who look metabolically like an obese 60-year-old. Research predicts...