Reports

• The State Obesity Report cards are now available for download from the Data Resource Center, in the form of an interactive map.

• THE ANNALS, VOLUME 615, ISSUE 1 "THE EPIDEMIC OF CHILDHOOD OVERWEIGHT"

  This special issue of The Annals is dedicated to exploring the topic of childhood overweight and obesity. It brings together researchers, practitioners, and policy makers in a forum designed to identify the contexts of a child’s life that help to determine weight status, including the home, the community, and the school, as well as the larger contexts of children’s development influenced by media and culture. The authors are health care practitioners, social scientists, philanthropists, advocates, and policy makers. view the articles...

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• RWJF-Supported Study Details Children's Easy Access to Unhealthy Foods

• Click here to read the Let's Go! Fall Forum Report

• Institute of Medicine Report - Nutrition Standards for Foods in Schools: Leading the Way toward Healthier Youth

• Using Pedometers to Increase Physical Activity and Improve Health: A Systematic Review (2007)

• Chenoweth & Associates, Inc. Study - A Lifestyle We Can’t Afford: How physical inactivity and excess weight are costing Maine billions of dollars each year

• The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity (2001)

• Physical Activity and Health: A Report of the Surgeon General (1996)

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Guidelines for Schools and Community Programs to
  Promote Lifelong Physical Activity Among Young People (1997)

• Healthy People 2010 (2000)

• Institute of Medicine report on Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance (2005)

• The Future of Children: Childhood Obesity (2006)