Center for Healthy Weight and Nutrition

At the Center for Healthy Weight and Nutrition, we offer families a comprehensive approach to weight management. The Center has programs for both the prevention and treatment of overweight children. If you have a question and would like to speak with someone on our staff, call (614) 722-4824.

Resources for Managing Pediatric Obesity

For Parents
We have compiled a variety of helpful resources for parents including Columbus Parent Magazine articles, handouts to help manage obesity and more.

For Physicians
Learn more about the management of treating obesity in pediatric patients. We provide helpful tools including a pocket guide, Grand Rounds video presentation and much more. New informational handouts for parents and families are available.

News from the Center for Healthy Weight and Nutrition

Nationwide Children’s Hospital collaborates on Pediatrics® Obesity Supplement

Pediatrics®, the Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, in collaboration with Nationwide Children's Hospital and 15 other children’s hospital has released a landmark supplement on children’s hospitals efforts to address obesity in children. Pediatric Obesity: Practical Applications and Strategies From Primary to Tertiary Care, features eight articles covering the role of children’s hospitals in addressing obesity, the identification and treatment of obesity as a standard of care, a survey of pediatric obesity-management programs, patient engagement and attrition in pediatric obesity programs, the development of criteria for bariatric surgery programs, support for childhood obesity prevention and treatment, payment for obesity services and insights from senior program administrators on obesity programs at their hospitals.

Click here to download the Pediatrics Obesity Supplement

Nationwide Children's Joins Study for Adolescent Bariatric Surgery

Nationwide Children's is one of five institutions to join a clinical research study to understand the benefits and risks of bariatric surgery in adolescents. This observational study called Teen-LABS (Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery) is funded by the National Institutes of Health.