Report Responds to Urgent Need for Comprehensive National Strategy to Combat Childhood Obesity

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Reversing the rapid rise in obesity among American children will require a multipronged approach by schools, families, communities, industry, and government that would be as comprehensive and ambitious as national anti- smoking efforts, according to a new report from the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

"Several of our recommendations challenge entrenched aspects of American life, but if we are not willing to make some fundamental shifts in our attitudes and actions, obesity's toll on the nation will only worsen," said Jeffrey Koplan, vice president for academic health affairs, Emory University, and former director of the CDC. Koplan chaired the committee that developed the report in response to a request from Congress for an obesity prevention plan based on sound science and the most promising approaches.

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Report Responds to Urgent Need for Comprehensive National Strategy to Combat Childhood Obesity

The report calls for all schools to apply nutritional standards developed at the nation...

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