Video: Transformation Tuesday in Tupelo

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TUPELO, Miss.  (WCBI) — Healthworks in Tupelo is looking to lower the obesity statistic in Mississippi, one child at a time.

Three nights a week, parents and 23 children, ages 8 through 13 who are considered overweight, continue their journey to weight loss.

Everyone participates in an exercise class, as well as educational sessions about how to plan healthy meals.

Fitness specialists, a registered dietitian, physicians and other health care professionals lead the program, which is sponsored in part by the Healthy Tupelo Task Force and the Health Care Foundation of North Mississippi.