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A 2007 American Journal of Clinical Nutrition article, "APPLE project: 2-y findings of a community-based obesity prevention program in primary school-age children", stated, "A relatively simple approach, providing activity coordinators and basic nutrition education in schools, significantly reduces the rate of excessive weight gain in children ...
Offering teens ages 12 and older obesity weight loss medications. Advising that teens ages 13 and older with severe obesity, which they define using Body Mass Index (BMI), be assessed for weight ...
Chefs Move to Schools was founded in May 2010 as part of First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move campaign. [31] The Chefs Move to Schools program is a nationwide effort to teach culinary skills to school children and to get them to try new, healthful food options. [31]
A director of nutrition policy for the Center for Science in the Public Interest said, "It's very comprehensive with lots of detailed recommendations that could make a real dent in childhood obesity. It lays out the steps that the federal government, schools, parents and food companies can take. These are not pie-in-the-sky recommendations.
A 2010 federal law that boosted nutrition standards for school meals may have helped curb obesity among America’s children _ even teenagers who can buy their own snacks, according to a study ...
To help parents determine what beverages to keep on hand, the Healthy Eating Res earch — a national program through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) that seeks to prevent childhood ...
The NPLAN advocates for a soda tax, specifically an excise tax, and have published model legislation which earmarks the funds raised to go to programs to prevent and treat obesity. [5] According to the American Public Health Association, they provide "legal technical assistance focused on childhood obesity prevention policy." The Network has ...
Only 13 percent of American children walk or bike to school; once they arrive, less than a third of them will take part in a daily gym class. Among adults, the number of workers commuting more than 90 minutes each way grew by more than 15 percent from 2005 to 2016, a predictable outgrowth of America’s underinvestment in public transportation ...