The Dean Foods LEAN (Lifestyle Exercise and Nutrition) Families program sponsored by Children's Medical Center Dallas is designed to provide patients and their families intensive weight management therapy to support them in achieving and maintaining lifelong habits of good nutrition and healthy activities.

Patients and their families will participate in:

Lifestyle modification, physical activity and nutrition education in 12 weekly group sessions and is organized into classes based on their age and spoken language.

Identifying behaviors that could trigger overeating or choosing unhealthy foods including media influences, dining out, and inappropriate division of feeding responsibility between parent and child through group activities and games.

leanfamilies@childrens.com