Childhood Obesity

The New Tobacco

Overcoming the childhood obesity epidemic will require changes on the scale of a social movement similar to the shift in attitudes and regulations toward smoking and tobacco. Tobacco control became a successful public health movement because of shifts in social norms and because cigarette companies came to be perceived by many as a common enemy. In contrast, obesity advocates have not identified a common threat or mobilized grass-roots change, nor have they identified strategies that resonate across diverse settings and constituencies. Framing obesity as a common threat can lead to consensus regarding the interventions needed to achieve healthier children and communities.

Health Affairs Issue Highlights RWJF Grantees' Proposed Solutions to the Childhood Obesity Epidemic

  1. 1 Reducing Childhood Obesity Through Policy Change
  2. 2 The Economics of Childhood Obesity
  3. 3 Personal Responsibility and Obesity
  4. 4 Childhood Obesity
  5. 5 Predicting Support for Restricting Food Marketing to Youth
  6. 6 Are 'Competitive Foods' Sold at School Making Our Children Fat?
  7. 7 'Competitive' Food and Beverage Policies
  8. 8 Lessons from Pennsylvania's Mixed Response to Federal School Wellness Law
  9. 9 Barriers to Obesity Prevention in Head Start
  10. 10 Policy Solutions to the 'Grocery Gap'
  11. 11 Federal Food Policy and Childhood Obesity

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