300 Longwood Avenue Boston, MA 02115 (617) 355-6000 Clinical Services (Optimal Weight for Life (OWL) Program): In the News The Optimal Weight for Life Program, its staff, and/or patients have been profiled in various media outlets. Nutritionists: Soda making Americans drink themselves fat CNN September 18, 2007 Think like a marketer to get kids to eat healthy MSNBC August 10, 2007 Taunting may affect health of obese youths Boston Globe July 11, 2007 Is America Too Sweet on Sugar? CBS Sunday Morning June 17, 2007 A New Diet Equation Time May 31, 2007 Winning at Losing Your body's use of insulin may point to the right diet U.S. News&World Report May 20, 2007 Live Interview with Dr. Ludwig about Ending The Food Fight. CBS Early Show April 30, 2007 Food games: Teach kids 'fake' vs. 'real' Feature article about ending the food fight. USA TODAY April 25, 2007 Documentary on Obesity Dr. Ludwig participates in a 30 minute panel discussion PBS April 11, 2007 OWL Recognized as One of the Most Comprehensive Pediatric Obesity Clinics in the Country. The Today Show and Child Magazine January 12, 2007 Filling up on sweetened research Boston Globe January 10, 2007 Beverage research tied to corporate dollars Conflict of interest seen when industry finances studies Boston Globe January 9, 2007 As Obesity Fight Hits Cafeteria, Many Fear a Note From School New York Times January 8, 2007 Industry money may bias drink studies The Associated Press January 8, 2007 Nutrition studies' conclusions tied to funding source Analysis of beverage studies shows pervasive bias Children's Hospital Boston Press Release, January 8, 2007 Food industry fights back on obesity claims NBC Nightly News July 6 2005. Feature story about The OWL Clinic Washington Post March 22, 2005 The war against childhood obesity Dream magazine, Winter 2004 Dr. David Ludwig founded the OWL program in 1996, and today it is the largest pediatric obesity program in New England. Find out how he has helped inspiring kids like Nick. Newspaper Boston Globe, 10/31/05, "Hard on Soft Drinks" New York Times, 5/2/05, "Is a Trip to McDonald's Just What the Doctor Ordered?" Wall Street Journal, 4/12/05, "Obesity Confab Seeks Solutions" Washington Post, 3/22/05, "Feeding Lessons" Boston Globe, 3/17/05, story on NEJM study USA Today, 3/17/05, story on NEJM study (front page) New York Times, 3/17/05, story on NEJM study Boston Globe, 2/14/05, "Teaming Up to Fight Obesity" (front page story on the OWL program) Boston Globe, 1/4/05. "The Hard Sell on Soft Drinks" (letter to the editor) USA Today, week of 12/29/04, Fast food study published in Lancet New York Times, 12/5/04, "Is the Low-Carb Boom Over?" Boston Globe, 9/21/04, "Glycemic Index Steers Toward Health Eating" New York Times, 9/14/04, "Don't Play a Numbers Game, Experts Say, Just Eat Your Vegetables" Washington Post, 9/7/04, "The Glycemic Index, Simpler" New York Times, 4/24/04, "A Beer Company Responds to the Low-Carb Crowd" New York Times, 4/14/04, "New 'Low-Carb' Foods Aren't All-You-Can-Eat" Washington Post, 3/4/04, "Spaghetti, Linguine, Tagliatelle et al. Take on the Low-Carb World" Boston Globe, 2/25/04, "For dids, an Unsteady Diet of Food Ads" The Wall Street Journal, 10/09/03, "For Obese Teens, A Radical Solution: Stomach Surgery" Boston Globe, 7/7/03, Editorial: "A rebalanced diet" Boston Globe, 7/2/03, "Kraft looks to trim fats, sugar from its products" Boston Globe, 5/29/03, "Severe Acute Apathy Syndrome" (op-ed on obesity) Boston Globe, 2/11/03, "Good Carb, Bad Carb" Boston Globe, 1/29/03, "Fighting for a Fitter Child" Boston Globe, 8/13/02, "More Kids Get Type 2 Diabetes" Boston Herald, 8/4/02, "Herald Focus: Health; Tackling a weighty issue" Los Angeles Times, 7/29/02, "Rethinking Our Daily Bread" Wall Street Journal, 7/25/02, "To Tame Kids' Junk-Food Urges: Fewer Speeches, More Fruit Bowls" New York Times, 7/17/02, "The Myth of the Low-fat Diet" (Letter to the Editor) Wall Street Journal, 6/13/02, "Attack on the Food Pyramid" New York Times, 6/11/02, Science Section, Story on glycemic index Washington Post, 6/9/02 (Sunday),Op-ed: "Fighting Obesity And the Food Lobby" Boston Globe, 3/27/02, "Sugar under scrutiny: Sorting out myths" Magazine "O" Oprah Magazine, July 2004 "Let Them Eat Cake" Consumer Reports, June 2004, "The Truth About Low Carb Foods" (cover story) Time Magazine, June 7, 2004, "The Obesity Warriors" Time Magazine, 11/17/03, "Desperate Measures" (story about gastric bypass surgery in children) Consumer Reports Health, Oct 2003, "Carbohydrates Without Fear" Time Magazine, 9/2/02, "Cracking the Fat Riddle" (Cover story) US News & World Report, 8/19/02, "A fat nation," see also sidebar "Diet Wars" Newsweek, 8/5/02, "Fighting 'Big Fat'" New York Times Magazine, 7/7/02, Cover story on dietary fat and obesity Consumer Reports, June 2002, cover story on diets Time Magazine, 12/4/00, "Six Months at an Obesity Clinic" Television CBS Early Show, 3/19/05, Segment on childhood obesity CNN Headline News (national live interview), 3/17/05 2:00 PM, EST segment Frontline, Public Broadcasting Service, 4/8/04, "Diet Wars" Dateline NBC, 1/27/04, "Good Carbs, Bad Carbs" WCVB-Boston, 8/21/03 "New Diet Shows Promising Results in Children" CNN (Live Today), 6/20/03, Story on gastric bypass surgery for obesity in children WGBH-TV, Channel 2, "Greater Boston" with Emily Rooney, 5/27/03. WCVB-TV, Boston, Channel 7, 4/25/03, Popular Diets NBC-TV, Boston, Channel 7, 2/14/03, Bariatric Surgery Bill Moyers, Public Broadcasting System, 10/25/02, "Fit or Fat" The Today Show, 4/24/02, JAMA study: dairy The Today Show, 2/17/01: story on soft drinks Radio National Public Radio "Science Friday," 3/18/05 National Public Radio, 11/27/04. The People's Pharmacy, Program 521, diet and obesity WBUR Boston (NPR), "Children in the Margins: Childhood Obesity", 6/3/03 All Things Considered, National Public Radio, 4/23/02, JAMA study: dairy The Connection, National Public Radio (live, 1hr), 7/23/01, "Fat." The information on this website should not be taken as medical advice, which can only be given to you by your personal health care professional. Copyright © Children's Hospital Boston. All rights reserved.