Childhood Obesity Program Area
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.
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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.
December 1, 2013 | Issue Brief
The brief describes related policy implications and discusses current efforts by industry and advocates aimed at changing child-directed marketing practices by fast-food companies.
October 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Improving neighborhood environments to make them more pleasant are likely to increse active travel to and from school.
September 1, 2013 | Report
This report presents findings about when school districts expect to be able to meet the updated nutrition standards for school meals, challenges they face in doing so, and how they are meeting those challenges.
August 28, 2013 | Program Results Report
Active Living Research is an ongoing program to identify environmental factors and policies that can substantially increase levels of physical activity and to provide policy-makers with evidence about how to create more activity-friendly communities.
August 28, 2013 | Journal Article
Television ads for fast-food children's meals were compared with adult advertisements to assess companies' compliance with self-regulatory pledges.
August 28, 2013 | Program Results Report
Researchers developed a review system to assess the strength of evidence for policy and environmental intervention strategies to increase healthy eating and active living among children ages 3-18.
August 16, 2013 | Report
Thirteen states now have adult obesity rates above 30 percent, 41 states have rates of at least 25 percent, and every state is above 20 percent, according to the report.
August 9, 2013 | Program Results Report
ChildObesity180 brings together top leaders from the business, academic, government, and nonprofit sectors to make a measurable impact on child obesity within a generation.
August 1, 2013 | Journal Article
In this study, strong school district policy was associated with increased odds of not withholding students from recess for poor behavior or completing schoolwork.
August 1, 2013 | Journal Article
State physical education laws with specific time requirements may increase attendance in physical education classes and overall physical activity particularly among girls.