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Helen Young is an Emmy award winning writer and producer whose most recent documentary casts an inquisitive and probing eye on upon the Childhood Obesity epidemic raging across America. “Childhood Obesity –Danger Zone,” which debuts on the Food Network, takes an unvarnished look at the personal toll obesity is exacting on America’s children and teenagers. The broadcast also explores how parents, doctors and communities across America are taking on the challenge to help kids adopt a healthier lifestyle. Helen wrote and produced the documentary for the Al Roker Entertainment Company.

Helen is a veteran broadcast journalist who worked as a writer and producer for both CBS News and NBC News. Over the course of her more than 25 year career, Helen has won four Emmy awards as well as awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, United Press International and the National Commission on Working Women.

She produced “Eye on America” reports on the “CBS Evening News with Dan Rather” and also worked on many high profile stories including the Oklahoma City bombing, the death of Princess Diana, the OJ Simpson murder trial, and the 1996 U.S. Presidential election. She also covered the impeachment of President Clinton and the death of John F. Kennedy Jr. as a producer for “Dateline NBC.”

Her award winning investigative work has spurred changes in both the public and private sector. A series of reports on “CBS This Morning with Harry Smith and Paula Zahn” prompted the U.S. Department of Agriculture to tighten its meat inspection standards. An “Eye on America” investigation of a group soliciting female college students for surrogate motherhood led to the shutdown of the unlawful organization. Some of her other investigative work, while a producer at WCBS-TV in New York, led to policy changes at New York State’s Department of Motor Vehicles after she exposed a phony driver’s license scheme that was putting the public at risk. Another investigative series resulted in changes to the procedure for criminal background checks for security guards at New York’s Department of State.

In 2005, Helen wrote and produced “America’s Astronauts –from Mercury to Apollo to Today,” an MSNBC’s Living History Event. The one hour documentary tells the story of the American space program through the experiences of seven astronauts including the first African American woman in space, Mae Jemison, and the last man to leave his footprint on the surface of the moon. Captain Eugene Cernan.

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