For a 9-year-old patient at a Los Angeles obesity clinic, barriers to health are everywhere
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LOS ANGELES — On this pleasant spring day, patients and uniformed health care workers crisscross the UCLA medical campus like ants on a picnic table. In a small medical office a few floors above the sun-drenched buzz, kids and parents trickle into the waiting room, masked and a little sleepy after lunch. This is the Fit For Healthy Weight Clinic, for children and teens with weight-related health issues.
