Zach's story: a determined young man overcomes obestiy

摘要

At 11 years old, Zach Garcia weighed 115 pounds, and he wasn't happy. His pants were tight around the waist, his energy was low and his sleep was restless. "I just kept getting fatter and fatter," he says. For this fifth-grader from Lafayette, Colorado, the timing was right for a change one--year away from middle school, a few years shy of full-blown adolescence. Explains his mother Kathy, "Zach's at an age where he's begun to care about how he looks." So mother and son sought the advice of JoHannah Reilly, the Boulder, Colorado-based naturopath who has been Zach's primary care physician since toddlerhood.