Primary Care Pediatrics Learning Activity and Nutrition With Families

Family based treatment as the invention to randomized participants. Family Based treatment utilizes behavior change techniques to target family-wide changes in diet and physical activity habits with the goal of promoting weight loss and subsequently healthy weight maintenance in all participants. Participants will have visits between 30 to 60 minutes as frequent as weekly and no longer than monthly over the two year study

Usual care is a treatment that is normally provided to patients in pediatric offices by a pediatrician, physician assistant, or other primary care staff.