UPDATE from the Campaign to End
Obesity
* A Call to Action: What
Congress Can Do to Address to Obesity Epidemic in
2008 and Beyond and accompanying tools
such as: issue breakdowns by professional
committee and organizations offering expertise on
specific policy items is now available online at
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www.obesitycampaign.org/calltoaction2008.pdf.
* Save the Children will
be holding a briefing on U.S. childhood obesity
prevention and the IMPACT Act on Wednesday, June
11th from 4:00 - 5:00pm in 122 Cannon House Office
Building. Presenters include Eduardo
Sanchez, M.D., M.P.H., Director, Institute of
Health Policy, School of Public Health, University
of Texas Health Science Center, Austin; Christina
Economics, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, New Balance
Chair in Childhood Nutrition; Gerald J. and
Dorothy Friedman, School of Nutrition Science and
Policy, Tufts University; and Taryn Nader,
Legislative Assistance, Office of Congresswoman
Mary Bono Mack (R-CA). The briefing will be
moderated by Susan Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.A. former
U.S. Assistant Surgeon General, Department of
Health and Human Services.
*
The Council of the Obesity
Society has issued a resolution which
concludes that "it is the official position of the
Obesity Society that obesity should be declared a
disease. The Obesity Society will henceforth refer
to obesity as a disease and encourages others to
do so." The resolution and a while paper,
A
White Paper on Evidence and Arguments Commissioned
by the Council of the Obesity Society, appear
in June 2008 issue of
Obesity. To
view the resolution, please visit
www.obesity.org/news/TOS%20OBY_disease_05_19_08.pdf
or for the white paper, visit
www.obesity.org/news/TOS%20OBY_disease_WP_05_19_08.pdf.
