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Series 4 Keeping Kids Healthy
 


This pioneering children’s health television series is a show about better parenting, disease prevention and about keeping your kids safe.  The 2007 Emmy Award was presented in the category of Interview/Discussion programming. The show received one Emmy Award in March 2006 for outstanding Health/Science programming and two Emmy Awards in the same category in 2005.

8 half hour programs (4 hours)


Airing April 4-28 on Mondays at
6-6:30 AM & 12:30-1 PM

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#1 Program: Protecting Kids from Meningitis and Whooping Cough
 


Even if it looks like the common cold, you need to pay close attention to it because it could be whooping cough.  Whooping Cough?!?  Couldn’t be! No one gets that anymore!  Actually, whooping cough is
a very serious respiratory infection that strikes up to twenty-five thousand people every year in
the U.S!  Even if you or your child have been vaccinated, you can both still be vulnerable—and in a
baby, the disease can be fatal. Join Dr. Winnie King and her guests as we tell you how to recognize whooping cough; what to do about it; and why it’s on the rise once again.


#2 Program: How to Prevent Lead Poisoning
 
A million children in the U.S. suffer from lead poisoning. If your house, or your childcare center, was built before 1978, the answer could be yes, because lead paint could be exposing your child to this condition.  Lead poisoning is a serious problem that can cause conditions like hyperactivity and severe brain damage and the effects are irreversible. So join our host Dr. Winnie King as she introduces you to the country’s leading experts on lead poisoning, and come with us on a home inspection to find the telltale signs of lead.

 

#3 Program:Through the eyes of a child living with Diabetes
 



Join host Dr. Winnie King as she introduces us to this remarkable family that lives with diabetes.
Learn how the national epidemic of obese children means that your child may be at risk—and hear what
you can do to recognize diabetes in your child, and in some cases, to prevent it!!


#4 Program: Living With Friedreich's Ataxia
 


Friedreich's Ataxia is a devastating, genetically-based neurological disorder that progressively takes away a child's motor skills, speech skills, and bone and muscle strength and, ultimately, his or her life. As yet, there is no known cure. In this show you'll meet the children, families, and doctors who are living and dealing with "F.A", and see for yourself what can be accomplished through the power of sheer determination, and of a refusal to be defeated, despite the odds.

 

#5 Program:Great Nutrition for the Cheapest Price
 


Watch this half hour and you'll learn how to raise your kids to be good eaters, and exactly what to do at every age to get them to eat right and make healthy choices on their own. The medical research supports it: it really can be done. You just have to learn how, and this program will give you the answers.

#6 Program: Celiac Disease
 


Can you imagine if your child were so sick that you thought she might die—but no one could figure out what was wrong with her? And then, when you finally did get a diagnosis, it turned out to be a disease that's so common that it affects almost one person in every 130— but no one had recognized it!
Well, that's exactly what can happen with Celiac Disease.



#7 Program: Premature Babies: Good Things Come in Small Packages
 


Premature Babies: Good Things Come In Small Packages: It's often a life and death struggle: premature babies so small they can fit in an adult's hand. Host Dr. Winnie King takes us into the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit to see premature babies, and provides the information parents need to make it through the uncertainty and the anxiety. 



#8 Program: Controlling Asthma
 


Asthma can be a terrifying illness, but there are new treatment approaches for keeping asthmatic kids safe and active. One of the most important is also one of the simplest: creating and using an asthma treatment plan. Learn from two asthma specialists, two mothers, and some young asthma patients the techniques you can use to keep asthmatic children healthy, in and out of school, without restricting their daily lives.

 


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