Thursday, September 14, 2006

Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity Report

From the Institute of Medicine press release: "The Institute of Medicine's (IOM) Committee on Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity report, Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity: How Do We Measure Up?, examines the progress made by obesity prevention initiatives in the United States over the past two years."

You can read the report on the National Academies Press website. A report brief and fact sheets are also available. The report also references a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) campaign, VERB.

Source: Neergaard, Lauran. "Progress slow in fighting childhood obesity, scientists say." Missoulian September 14, 2006. A6.

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