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U.S. News & World Report: Get Kids Exercising Again
Jerome Adams, the Indiana health commissioner and an anesthesiologist, is on track to become the next U.S. surgeon general. His nomination by President Donald Trump has received both Democratic and Republican support, thanks to his handling of an HIV/AIDS outbreak in Indiana and his work combating the opioid abuse epidemic.
While these and other urgent health issues will be part of his portfolio, I hope that Adams will also use his surgeon general's megaphone to benefit a group of Americans who suffer from obesity and related health problems – also an epidemic and, importantly, preventable.
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