Sentences with phrase «public efforts obesity»
Thanks to big governmental financial and public efforts obesity rates are stabilizing.
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Beloved welcome the efforts as they contribute to tackling childhood obesity, as well as encourage public discussion about improved nutrition.
Public health experts developed the traffic light system in the UK in 2006 in an effort to help combat rising levels of obesity and diseases such as heart disease, stroke and diabetes.
Ensuring quality, inspiring demand and improving access to school food is a three-fold effort to address public health concerns resulting from hunger, malnutrition, and obesity among D.C. school children and their families.
, President Obama established the first - ever Task Force on Childhood Obesity to develop a national action plan to mobilize the public and private sectors and engage families and communities in an effort to improve the health of our children.
To amplify our efforts, USDA is joining with First Lady Michelle Obama in aggressively promoting the Let's Move campaign, which will combat the epidemic of childhood obesity through a comprehensive approach that builds on effective strategies, and mobilizes public and private sector resources.
I point that out to show that nutrition and weight management are not inherently «anti fat,» it's just that with the obesity rate doubling in the past 30 years in this country, it is not surprising that most public health nutrition efforts are concentrated on that particular problem.
Caroline Flint has been appointed a new minister for fitness, to coordinate the government's efforts to tackle public health and rising obesity.
«All the public health campaigns in this country required concerted efforts over many years,» says pediatrician David Ludwig, director of the New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center at Boston Children's Hospital.
«Our study findings highlight the need for more public health efforts to reduce maternal obesity, appropriate gestational weight gain and to promote breastfeeding.»