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RWJF is committed to tackling one of the most urgent threats to the health of our children and families—childhood obesity. Our goal is to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015.
July 14, 2008
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The Center for Science in the Public Interest hosted a conference of child and nutrition advocates to discuss the state of food marketing to children, and to strategize how to reduce children's exposure to the marketing of low-nutrition foods.
July 30, 2012
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During 2006 to 2007, TV and radio host Tavis Smiley convened town hall meetings in four U.S. cities to raise awareness of childhood obesity. A key organization in each city then worked to spur state and local efforts to address the growing problem.
April 18, 2011
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The 2005 and 2007 California Health Interview Surveys incorporated questions on children's and adolescents' diet and physical activity as well as the environmental factors that influence those behaviors.
October 29, 2009
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A special supplement to JADA presented findings from the third School Nutrition Dietary Assessment Study (SNDA-III) to an audience working to establish school-based strategies and policies for obesity prevention.
August 5, 2009
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Researchers at the Harvard University School of Public Health produced several reports on this connection.
July 29, 2008
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In 2002 Congress directed the Institute of Medicine to research the problem and develop an action plan to address it.
February 1, 2007
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The Food Research and Action Center wrote a white paper on the relationships between poverty, hunger and food insecurity, as well as the role of federal food nutrition programs in reducing hunger and obesity.
December 1, 2005
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In 2004, staff of Mathematica Policy Research, based in Princeton, N.J., analyzed marketplace conditions that might influence the retail food industry to produce and package food in smaller portions.
October 1, 2004
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The Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy convened 47 public and private sector professionals on August 14-15, 2003, in Washington for a roundtable, "Prevention and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity: Toward a Roadmap for Advocacy and Action."
December 14, 2012
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Researchers analyzed state legislation on childhood obesity for factors that predict enactment and to understand the relationship between enacted policies and obesity rates. They developed tools to help others analyze legislation.
