1 Neighborhood Data from 2000 Census at www.census.gov and “Children's Commission of Philadelphia 2005 Community Report Card on Lower North Philadelphia.” www.philasafesound.org/CRC_Lower_North.pdf.pdf Return to President's Message
2 “Food Insecurity in Households With Children: Food Assistance Research Brief.” USDA Economic Research Service, 2001 data. www.ers.usda.gov/publications/fanrr34/fanrr34-13/fanrr34-13.pdf Return to President's Message
3 Ibid. Return to President's Message
4 “Food Security in the United States: Conditions and Trends.” USDA Economic Research Service, 2005 data. www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/FoodSecurity/trends.htm Return to President's Message
5 Ibid. Return to President's Message
6 Ibid. Return to President's Message
7 “Poverty and Obesity: The Role of Energy Density and Energy Costs.” American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, January 2004. www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/79/1/6 Return to President's Message
8 Calorie-Count, from About.com. www.calorie-count.com/calories/item/83644.html Return to President's Message
9 “A Look At Convenience Store Fare.” Reno Gazette-Journal, April 18, 2005. www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2005/04/18/97407.php Return to President's Message
10 Popeye's Nutrition Index, www.popeyes.com/nutrition/index_nutr2005.asp. Price from telecon to Popeye's outlet, November 29, 2006. Return to President's Message
11 “Food Geography: How Food Access Affects Diet and Health.” www.TheFoodTrust.org Return to President's Message
12 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Centers for Disease Control, January 13, 2006. http://iier.isciii.es/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm5501.pdf Return to President's Message
13 “Resident Population Projections by Sex and Age, 2005 to 2050.” U.S. Census Bureau, Statistical Abstract of the United States, 2006. Table 12, www.census.gov/prod/2005pubs/06statab/pop.pdf Return to President's Message
14 “Mean Body Weight, Height, and Body Mass Index, United States 1960–2002.” Advance Data No. 347. October 2004. www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/ad/ad347.pdf Return to President's Message
15 TIME/ABC News Summit on Obesity. www.time.com/time/2004/obesity/ Return to President's Message
16 RWJF/Harvard School of Public Health survey, reported online at RWJF Research Highlight, April 2006. . www.rwjf.org/research/researchdetail.jsp?id=2571&ia=138 Return to President's Message
17 The Health Consequences of Smoking, A Report of the Surgeon General 1983. www.philip-morris-slovakia.sk/global/downloads/SH/Surgeon_General_1983.pdf Return to President's Message
18 “Tobacco Use Among Adults - United States, 2005.” CDC MMWR Weekly, October 27, 2006. . www.cdc.gov/MMWR/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5542a1.htm Return to President's Message
19 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, cited in “A New Strategy to Deter Drunken Driving.” New York Times, November 20, 2006. Return to President's Message
20 “Perspectives in Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Seat Belt Use - United States.” CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, May 16, 1986. . www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00000732.htm Return to President's Message
21 “Seat Belt Use Lags Among Rural Men,” USA Today, May 15, 2006. Citing data from National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-05-14-seat-belt-cover_x.htm Return to President's Message
22 “Overweight and Obesity Threaten U.S. Health Gains.” Press release, December 31, 2001. www.surgeongeneral.gov/topics/obesity Return to President's Message
23 “Study Finds Major Energy Gap Contributes to Obesity Among U.S. Teens.” Draft press release regarding research by Harvard School of Public Health, published December 1, 2006 in Pediatrics. Return to President's Message
24 Ibid. Return to President's Message
25 “U.S. Food Consumption Up 16 Percent Since 1970.” Amber Waves, November 2005, USDA Economic Research Service. www.ers.usda.gov/AmberWaves/November05/Findings/USFoodConsumption.htm Return to President's Message
26 “Prevalence of No Leisure-Time Physical Activity—35 States and the District of Columbia, 1988—2002.” CDC MMWR, February 6, 2004. www.cdc.gov/MMWR/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5304a4.htm Return to President's Message
27 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey 2005. CDC (issued every 5 years). www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/yrbs/pdf/trends/2005_YRBS_Physical_Activity.pdf Return to President's Message
28 “Food Marketing to Children and Youth: Threat or Opportunity? (2006)” Institutes of Medicine. www.nap.edu/catalog/11514.html Return to President's Message
29 “Soft Drinks as Top Calorie Culprit.” Science News, June 18, 2005. www.sciencenews.org/articles/20050618/food.asp Return to President's Message
30 “‘Media Multi-tasking' Changing the Amount and Nature of Young People's Media Use.” March 9, 2005 news release re: “Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8–18 Year-olds—Report.” Roberts, et al., Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. www.kff.org/entmedia/entmedia030905nr.cfm Return to President's Message
31 “Trends in the Association of Poverty With Overweight Among U.S. Adolescents, 1971–2004.” Miech, et al., JAMA, May 24/31, 2006. http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/295/20/2385 Return to President's Message
32 Food Marketing to Children and Youth. IOM. Return to President's Message
33 Food Fight. Kelly D. Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, Contemporary Books, 2004, plus “Americans Are Obsessed with Fast Food: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal.” CBS News interview with Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, January 18, 2001 www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/31/health/main326858.shtml Return to President's Message
34 “U.S. Per Capita Food Supply Trends.” Food Review, Vol. 25(3), Winter 2002. . USDA Economic Research Service. www.ers.usda.gov/publications/FoodReview/DEC2002/frvol25i3a.pdf Return to President's Message
35 “Prevalence and Trends in Overweight Among U.S. Children And Adolescents, 1999–2000,” JAMA, October 9, 2002. http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/288/14/1728?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=1&andorexacttitle=and&andorexacttitleabs=and&andorexactfulltext=and&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=relevance&volume=288&firstpage=1728&resourcetype=HWCIT Return to President's Message
36 “The Facts About Overweight and Obesity Health Disparities (2001).” Office of the U.S. Surgeon General. www.surgeongeneral.gov/topics/obesity/calltoaction/fact_glance.htm Return to President's Message
37 “Obesity Associated with High Rates of Diabetes in the Pima Indians.” National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse. http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/pima/index.htm Return to President's Message
38 “Effect of Youth-Onset Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus on Incidence of End-Stage Renal Disease and Mortality in Young and Middle-Aged Pima Indians.” Pavkov, et al., JAMA, July 26, 2006. http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/296/4/421 Return to President's Message
39 Healthy People 2010, “Progress Overview: Nutrition and Weight.” U.S. Department of Health & Human Services – Public Health Service, January 21, 2004. www.healthypeople.gov/data/2010prog/focus19/default.htm Return to President's Message
40 “Progress In Preventing Childhood Obesity: How Do We Measure Up?” Institute of Medicine Report Brief, Draft 6. . August 24, 2006. Return to President's Message
41 Ibid. Return to President's Message
42 The Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine, January 2004. . Study comparing 15-year-olds in 15 European countries, Israel and the United States. Return to President's Message
43 “‘Adult' diabetes on the Rise in Kids.” MSNBC Interactive, October 30, 2006. . www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3341561 Return to President's Message
44 “Prevention of Pediatric Overweight and Obesity.” American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Nutrition, Pediatrics, August 2003. http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/pediatrics;112/2/424 Return to President's Message
45 “Overweight and Obesity Threaten U.S. Health Gains.” U.S. Surgeon General, press release, December 13, 2001. www.surgeongeneral.gov/topics/obesity Return to President's Message
46 “The Impact of Obesity on Rising Medical Spending.” Thorpe, et.al, RAND, Health Affairs Web Exclusive, October 20, 2004. http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/reprint/hlthaff.w4.480v1.pdf Return to President's Message
47 Quality of Life Content from “Health-Related Quality of Life of Severely Obese Children and Adolescents.” Shimmer, et al., JAMA, April 9, 2003. Return to President's Message
48 “Associations Between Overweight and Obesity With Bullying Behaviors in School-Aged Children.” Janssen, et al., Pediatrics, May 2004. http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/113/5/1187 Return to President's Message
49 Ibid. Return to President's Message
50 Ibid. Return to President's Message
51 “Increasing Obesity Rates and Disability Trends.” Sturm, et.al., Health Affairs, March/April 2004. http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/23/2/199 Return to President's Message
52 “The Health and Cost Consequences of Obesity Among the Future Elderly.” Lakdawalla, et al., RAND, Health Affairs Web Exclusive, September 26, 2005. http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.w5.r30 Return to President's Message
53 Thorpe, et.al., RAND, Health Affairs Web Exclusive. Return to President's Message
54 See Data Presentation, Edward Sondik, Director, National Center for Health Statistics. Healthy People 2010 Progress Review, January 23, 2004. (Slide # 2, Bullet #2.) www.cdc.gov/nchs/ppt/hpdata2010/focusareas/fa19.ppt#2 Return to President's Message
55 Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity: How Do We Measure Up? Committee on Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity, Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine. Released September 13, 2006. Return to President's Message
56 “Measuring Success.” The Food Trust. www.thefoodtrust.org/php/about/measuring.success.php Return to President's Message
57 “Food Geography: How Food Access Affects Diet and Health.” The Food Trust & The Philadelphia Health Management Corp., February 23, 2006. www.thefoodtrust.org/catalog/download.php?product_id=120. NOTE: Only Boston is worse, per “Grocery Shortage,” by Athena D. Merritt, Philadelphia Business Journal, February 24, 2006. www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/stories/2006/02/27/story1.html Return to President's Message
58 “In Cities, Healthful Living Through Fresher Shopping.” Washington Post, October 15, 2006. www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/14/AR2006101400859_pf.html Return to President's Message
59 See endnote 57, above. Return to President's Message
60 “New Rx: Help people to avoid getting sick.” Steve Sternberg, USA TODAY, October 18, 2006. www.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/2006-10-17-healthier-communities_x.htm Return to President's Message
61 Ibid. Return to President's Message
62 “Overweight and Obesity: State-Based Programs.” CDC. www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/obesity/state_programs/index.htm Return to President's Message
63 “HOUSE CALL WITH DR. SANJAY GUPTA: Bill Clinton and Weight.” CNN, Aired August 6, 2005, 8:30 ET. www.transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0508/06/hcsg.01.html Return to President's Message
64 “Clinton Targets Childhood Obesity, “CBS News, May 3, 2005. www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/05/04/earlyshow/health/health_news/printable692856.shtml Return to President's Message
65 “Candidate's Health: Doctors Call Clinton Healthy; Campaign Offers New Details.” New York Times, October 15, 1992. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE1DD143EF936A25753C1A964958260&sec=health&pagewanted=print Return to President's Message
66 Quit Digging Your Grave with a Knife and Fork. Mike Huckabee, Center Street 2005. Return to President's Message
67 “Obesity: A Looming National Threat?” CNN.com, March 24, 2006. www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/diet.fitness/03/24/hb.obesity.epidemic/index.html Return to President's Message
68 “Tracking Progress: The Third Annual Arkansas Assessment of Childhood and Adolescent Obesity.” Arkansas Center for Health Improvement. www.rwjf.org/files/publications/other/ACHI_2006.pdf Return to President's Message
69 Ibid. Return to President's Message
70 “Arkansas Governor Wages War on Junk Food in School.” Melissa Drosjack, Fox News, October 4, 2006. www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,217886,00.html?sPage=fnc.politics/government Return to President's Message
71 “Arkansas' Children Shed a Pinch of Their Fat; Weight War Works, Huckabee declares.” Nell Smith, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, August 17, 2006. http://library.ardemgaz.com/ShowArchiveStory.asp?Path=ArDemocratNW/2006/08/17&ID=Ar01102&Qry=BMI Return to President's Message
72 Interview by Susan Dentzer, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, June 15, 2004. www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/health/jan-june04/thompson_ex.html Return to President's Message
73 “Trails met, ‘Big Dam Bridge' Opens.” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, October 1, 2006. http://library.ardemgaz.com/ShowArchiveStory.asp?Path=ArDemocrat/2006/10/01&ID=Ar01701&Qry=pedestrian+bridge Return to President's Message
74 “Are We Drinking Too Much Soda.” Colorado State University Cooperative Extension. www.ext.colostate.edu/PUBS/columncc/cc010821.html Return to President's Message
75 From 1935's “Try Reality,” cited in Robert Wood Johnson: The Gentleman Rebel, by Lawrence G. Foster. Lillian Press 1999, page 224. Return to President's Message
76 “Program to Help Schools Create a Healthier Environment for the Nation's Students.” Alliance for a Healthier Generation. Press release, February 13, 2006. www.clintonfoundation.org/021306-nr-cf-hs-hk-usa-pr-program-to-help-schools-create-healthier-environment-for-students.htm Return to President's Message
77 School anecdotes from “Success Stories.” Alliance for a Healthier Generation Healthy Generations. www.healthiergeneration.org/engine/renderpage.asp?pid=s018 Return to President's Message
78 “The California Endowment Commits $26 Million To Prevent Childhood Obesity.” Press release, October 14, 2004. www.calendow.org/news/press_releases/2004/10/101404.stm Return to President's Message
79 “Banning Junk Food and Soda Sales in the State's Public Schools.” Isaacs & Swartz/The California Endowment, October 2006. www.calendow.org/reference/publications/pdf/npolicy/61024_CAE_BanningJunkFood7.pdf Return to President's Message
80 Gardner. www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/johnwgard134413.html Return to President's Message
81 “Epilogue.” Kennedy, Theodore C. Sorenson. 1965. Return to President's Message
Photographs:
The environmental photographs included in this message feature neighborhoods and markets in Philadelphia, PA.
The community- and school-based photographs feature initiatives developed and run by our grantee The Food Trust. The Food Trust is responding to the epidemic of diet-related disease and malnutrition by working to increase access to affordable and nutritious food and helping people to improve their diets. Founded in 1992, the Trust's mission is to ensure that everyone has access to affordable, nutritious food.
The initiatives featured in the message include:
Corner Store Campaign which uses social marketing and education to increase demand for healthy snacks, works with the food industry to increase the availability of healthier choices in stores, and promotes participation in the school meals programs.
The Kindergarten Initiative works with students through the classroom, integrating nutrition concepts into the regular school curriculum, providing healthy fruit and vegetable snacks grown by local farmers, and involving parents and community members in nutrition education.
Recreation Center Program which uses interactive, lively teaching techniques to engage children in nutrition education and physical activity after school in Philadelphia's recreation centers.
Featured schools: Cole Manor Elementary and Gotwals Elementary in Norristown, PA.
Featured markets: Romano's Market, Progress Plaza and Reading Terminal
Photographer: David Burnett, New York, NY
Exclusions:
- page 2, image one – © Veer Inc.
- page 6, image three – © Craig Terry
- page 10, image one – © Joan Liftin
- page 24, Risa Lavizzo-Mourey – © Ricardo Barros