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IMPORTANT UPDATES FROM THE
CAMPAIGN TO END OBESITY
1 ? Senate Health, Education,
Labor and Pensions Committee to Hold Hearing on
Childhood Obesity. On Wednesday, July
16th, the Subcommittee on Children and Families of
the Senate HELP Committee will be holding a
hearing entitled, ?Childhood Obesity: The
Declining Health of America?s Next Generation ?
Part 1?. The hearing will take place at
2:30 pm
in Room 430 of the Dirksen
Senate
Office
Building.
Testifying at the hearing will
be:
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Jeff Levi, Ph.D., Executive Director, Trust for
America?s
Health
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Dr. Francine Kaufman, former President of the
American Diabetes Association, Distinguished
Professor of Pediatrics and Communications at the
University
of Southern
California
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Dr. Margaret Grey, DrPHG, RN, FAAN, Dean and Annie
Goodrich professor, Yale School of
Nursing
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Bruce Lesley, President, First
Focus
For more information, visit http://help.senate.gov/Hearings/2008_07_16/2008_07_16.html
2 ? Trust for
America?s
Health to Release new study examining the benefits
of community-based prevention programs.
Please join the Trust for America?s
Health on July 17th for the release of the study
entitled, ?Prevention for A Healthier
America:
Investments in Disease Prevention Yield
Significant Savings, Stronger
Communities.?
The study was conducted in
partnership with the Urban Institute, the New York
Academy of Medicine, the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation, the California Endowment and the
Prevention Institute.
For more details on the event,
please click here.
3 ? New Resources.
Lastly, the Campaign to End Obesity wanted to
bring to your attention two new resources that
have recently become available.
Click here to view the Yale University
Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity report on
menu labeling and opportunities for public
policy.
Click here
to view the National Association of Counties new
searchable Healthy Counties Database where you can
search for model policies, programs and
initiatives that counties nationwide have enacted
to promote wellness and prevent childhood
obesity. **************************************************************
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