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Considerations for an Obesity Policy Research Agenda The National Cancer Institute convened a meeting to discuss priorities for obesity policy research in June 2007. Issues discussed included defining obesity policy research, examining challenges and partners in formulating and implementing an obesity policy research... Published In: American Journal of Preventive Medicine	Journal articles	11/13/2009
Active for Life?: Increasing Physical Activity Levels in Adults Age 50 and Older Active for Life studied how to deliver and sustain research-based physical activity programs in real-world settings so that large numbers of older Americans could benefit from them.	Grant Results Reports	11/13/2009
Safe Routes to School State Network Project: 2007-2009 Final Report Building momentum and policy change through the Safe Routes to School National Partnership.	Issue and policy briefs, Reports	11/10/2009
Policy-Makers Talk About Childhood Obesity and How Their Communities are Tackling the Epidemic They spoke at a summit organized by Leadership for Healthy Communities.	Video, Stories and articles	11/03/2009
Four Mayors and School Superintendent Honored for Exceptional Leadership in Preventing Childhood Obesity Their approaches illustrate a wide variety of policies that can help prevent childhood obesity.	Video, Stories and articles	11/03/2009
Study Shows Overwhelming Parent Support for Healthier Schools Survey for the Alliance for a Healthier Generation finds most parents willing to help schools improve food offerings and increase physical activity.	News releases	10/28/2009
Poll Shows Strong Parent Support for Healthier Schools The survey signals the breadth of parents' support for changes to make schools healthier places, and their willingness to help make changes happen.	Stories and articles	10/28/2009
A Legal Primer for the Obesity Prevention Movement To help policy-makers avoid crossing constitutional boundaries, this article distilled the legal concepts most relevant to formulating policies aimed at preventing obesity: police power; allocation of power among federal, state, and local governments; freedom of... Published In: American Journal of Public Health	Journal articles	10/13/2009
New Evidence Strengthens Case for Increasing School-based Physical Activity Kids who are active and fit tend to perform better in the classroom.	Issue and policy briefs, Reports	09/25/2009
Evaluation of Communities Creating Healthy Envionments A participatory evaluation of Communities Creating Healthy Environments (C-CHE) is being conducted to evaluate grassroots activities that has been demonstrated to be optimally useful for grassroots advocacy in particular.	Evaluations, Evaluation projects	09/18/2009

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