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.
National Program
To support and disseminate focused investigator-initiated research and policy analysis to identify effective policy and environmental strategies for reversing the rise in childhood obesity by 2015.
National Program
Program to support efforts of schools and communities to increase access to healthy, lower calorie foods.
March 1, 2013 | Report
Packaged goods companies and restaurant chains can succeed in satisfying both the increased consumer demand for healthier foods and beverages, and improving their bottom lines.
August 1, 2009 | Chart
November 2006 - August 2009
July 1, 2012 | Report
A Fresh Approach to Strengthening the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
May 1, 2012 | Report
A commissioned analysis was undertaken to synthesize findings from recent and ongoing research, together with experts’ science-based opinions, to: 1) determine how to reconcile new federal and California laws requiring water availability in childcar ...
April 5, 2013 | Program Result
Healthy Eating Research aims to reduce childhood obesity by funding studies to examine policy and environmental approaches with potential to improve children's diets - especially children in the groups at the highest risk for obesity.
November 1, 2012 | Journal Article
A restaurant nutrition-labeling regulation was accompanied by some, but not uniform, improvements in two counties—one regulated and one nonregulated.
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Central Valley, Calif. community is among 50 sites making changes in national initiative to prevent obesity.
October 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Expansion of WIC foods was associated with small positive externalities on the food environment.