United States shifts focus to food marketing in battle to reduce childhood obesity

N Benac - 2010 - Can Med Assoc
Three months after First Lady Michelle Obama launched a national crusade against
childhood obesity in the United States, the government backed it up with a report packed …

[PDF][PDF] First lady michelle obama launches let's move: America's move to raise a healthier generation of kids

K Sebelius, HS Donovan, LS Solis - 2010 - calsna.org
THE WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON–First Lady Michelle Obama today announced an
ambitious national goal of solving the challenge of childhood obesity within a generation so …

Obesity Epidemic Requires Federal Intervention:“Healthy Kids” Key to Nation's Healthy Future

JP Moran - Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
The Healthy Kids Act (HR 4053) legislation does three things:(1) establishes an office of
Childhood Overweight and Obesity Prevention and Treatment within the Department of …

Let's Move! Raising a healthier generation of kids

FLM Obama - Childhood obesity, 2012 - search.proquest.com
When i first decided to focus on the issue of childhood obesity, i wondered whether it was
really possible to make a difference. i knew the conventional wisdom on this issue …

The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act--building healthier schools

TJ Vilsack - Childhood Obesity, 2012 - search.proquest.com
Some weeks before his swearing in, I met with President Obama to chart the course for
USDA. Of the many issues I would be covering as his Secretary of Agriculture, his first …

[PDF][PDF] Industry needs the intervention, not our kids: A cautionary approach toward the new AAP recommendations and the DGAC 2025

A Naik, A Carriedo - World Nutrition, 2023 - worldnutritionjournal-org.wphna.org
Childhood obesity is again centerstage in 2023, as we examine two developments from
public health authorities in the US with multidimensional and long-term implications for …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping the childhood obesity epidemic; a geographic profile of the predicted risk for childhood obesity in communities across the United States

SK Long, L Hendey, K Pettit - 2007 - stacks.cdc.gov
The prevalence of childhood obesity has nearly tripled over the past 25 years, so that more
than 1 in 6 children between the ages of 6 and 19 are obese today. 1 In response to this …

[PDF][PDF] Battling childhood obesity in the US: An interview with Robert Wood Johnson's CEO

M Miller, L Taliento - The McKinsey Quarterly, 2009 - mckinsey.com
Obesity used to be a privilege reserved for wealthy people in wealthy countries. Now,
however, this and other lifestyle diseases also afflict better-off people in poorer countries …

[PDF][PDF] Treating obesity seriously in Mexico: realizing, much too late, action must be immediate

S Barquera, M White - Obesity, 2018 - researchgate.net
Mexico declared an epidemiological alert in 2016 after realizing, much too late, its critical
situation, with more than 72% of its adult population with overweight or obesity and nearly …

[CITATION][C] Special report: how Washington went soft on childhood obesity

D Wilson, J Roberts - Reuters, Accessed June, 2012