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Health for a lifetime: Big Food for Small Bodies
 
Health for a Lifetime
 
The Phoenix Public Library and St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center are partnering to present an exciting series of health related programs during 2005-2006. These educational talks will feature health experts and professionals at five Phoenix Public Library locations.
 
 
Date: Tue, Oct. 4, 2005
Time: 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Location: Yucca Library
Address: 5648 N. 15th Ave. 85015
Registration: Not Required
Age Level: For adults
Language: English
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Good nutrition starts in childhood. Find out how good eating habits and exercise early in life can prevent childhood obesity and associated lifelong health problems. Presented by Dr. Michael Finch, Pediatric Gastroenterologist Children's Health Center at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center. Presented in partnership with St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center.

Dr. Michael Finch is a board-certified physician in general pediatrics and pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition at the Children's Health Center at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center. He received his medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine in 1976. Dr. Finch's special areas of interest include childhood obesity, and diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal disorders in children including constipation, abdominal stomach pain, irritable bowel disease and others. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Gastroenterology and American Obesity associations.