Brain development in kids, multimobidity, childhood obesity, and prehabilitation

TT HealthWatch - June 19, 2026
Elizabeth Tracey and Dr. Richard Lange

This week's topics include SES and brain development in kids, lifestyle changes and multimobidity, food labeling and childhood obesity, and prehabilitation in elders.

Program notes:

0:40 Prehabilitation in older adults

1:40 Both pre- and postoperative

2:40 Pulmonary and cardiovascular benefits?

3:16 Food labeling and advertising law changes and childhood excess weight

4:15 300,000 kids four to six years of age

5:15 Interrupt cascade of excess weight

6:15 Very early age

7:00 Prediabetes prevention, lifestyle changes and multimorbidity

8:00 Looked at 15 most common Medicare claims

8:50 SES and brain changes

9:50 Map hundreds of nonimaging variables to the brain

10:50 Negatively associated with maps of higher order cognition

11:50 Single parent home?

12:52 End

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