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April 23, 2010 | Report
The IOM Committee on an Evidence Framework for Obesity Prevention Decision Making was formed to develop a framework for evidence-informed decision-making in obesity prevention, with a focus on assessing policy, environment and community interventions that influence food, eating and physical activity.
November 13, 2011 | Story
RWJF's Senior Scientist Instrumental in Development of the Childhood Obesity Modeling Network.
June 29, 2010 | News Release
Striking disparities persist; obesity rates highest among Blacks and in Southern states.
March 31, 2009 | Video
Seven men and women who have served as the nation's surgeon general come together to call for action.
July 7, 2011 | News Release
Since 1995 rates have doubled or nearly doubled in 17 states.
July 6, 2011 | Story
Sara E. Benjamin Neelon, Ph.D., M.P.H., R.D., studied state regulations related to healthy eating and physical activity for child-care facilities and ways to improve them under a grant from Healthy Eating Research.
November 2, 2009 | Video/Story
Their approaches illustrate a wide variety of policies that can help prevent childhood obesity.
May 28, 2009 | Story
An introduction to the complete message from Risa Lavizzo-Mourey.
March 25, 2009 | Book
Based on their experience with childhood obesity legislation, state legislators and staffers identify key positive and negative factors in the political process to passing state laws on this topic, in this interview-based study included in a supplement to the Journal of Public Health Policy about the 2008 Active Living Research Conference.