Brookings Future of Children Event Announcement: Childhood Obesity
U.S. Newswire, March, 2006
News Advisory:
WHAT: Future of Children Event Announcement: Childhood Obesity
WHEN: Tuesday, March 14, 9 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
WHERE: Falk Auditorium, The Brookings Institution, 1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20036
Over the past three decades, the share of children who are overweight or obese has doubled to nearly 30 percent. This rapidly increasing incidence of obesity among American children poses significant public health hazards, and medical costs as a result of this obesity epidemic are rising. Researchers have identified many possible causes of increasing obesity among children, but they have found few solutions on how to prevent obesity.
Nonetheless, national, state, and local policymakers-along with parents, schools, the medical...
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