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New Research Initiative Aims to Promote Healthy Eating, Prevent Obesity Among Children; Healthy Eating Research Proposals Due by March 7.

AScribe Health News Service,  December, 2005  

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Byline: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

PRINCETON, N.J., Dec. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) today launched Healthy Eating Research, a new program to determine effective changes in policies and environments that can promote healthy eating among children. The five-year, $16-million program is a key component of RWJF's efforts to prevent childhood obesity, and will be directed by Mary Story, Ph.D., R.D., professor in the division of epidemiology and community health at the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health.

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