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April 5, 2013 | Program Result Report
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.
August 30, 2010 | Program Result Report
RWJF provided four grants to enable the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices to enlist governors in tackling the childhood obesity epidemic and encourage state innovation in policies and programs.
March 6, 2009 | Journal Article
This article provides a systematic review of the literature on the relationship between environmental and community factors and childhood obesity. While these factors are thought to contribute to childhood obesity, the nature of the relationship is not well understood.
March 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article is part of a special issue on obesity in the March 2009 edition of The Milbank Quarterly, available free of charge throughout 2009 at Wiley-Blackwell.
December 1, 2008 | Journal Article
The Society of Behavioral Medicine identified childhood obesity as a special focus of its 2007 annual meeting in Washington D.C. The meeting and its activities had a general goal of identifying the causes of obesity from a social and ecological perspective.
May 23, 2013 | Journal Article
In an effort to prevent overweight and obesity due to increased fast-food consumption, new national policy will require restaurants to post calories on their menus.
March 7, 2013 | Commentary
RWJF President and CEO Risa Lavizzo-Mourey sees "pockets of progress toward reversing the childhood obesity epidemic," but says more needs to be done.
February 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Sixteen major food-manufacturing companies, members of the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation, have pledged to collectively remove 1.5 trillion calories a year from the marketplace by the end of 2015.
November 1, 2011 | Report
California making headway in battle against childhood obesity but study shows successes are uneven.
July 1, 2011 | Report
Adult obesity rates increased in 16 states in the past year have doubled or nearly doubled in 17 states since 1995.