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Creating Healthy Communities for Everyone: The Time is Now
Today marks the release of the “F as in Fat 2010″ report by the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. As the advisory board chair for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation...
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Ray LaHood wrote about our Keeping Kids Moving Event!
On his always interesting Fast Lane blog, US Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today wrote about our Keeping Kids Moving: How the Federal Transportation Bill Can Help Stop Childhood...
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Reflecting on Childhood Obesity Awareness Month
A commentary on Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, by Joseph W. Thompson, MD, MPH, Director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity As the nation continues to observe...
View ArticleVideo: Childhood Obesity and Disparitites, Five Questions with Angela Glover...
“We have to make sure that no one is left behind,” says Angela Glover Blackwell, founder and CEO of PolicyLink and National Advisory Board chair for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to...
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A Victory for Healthy Kids
Statement on the passage of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 by PolicyLink Founder and CEO Angela Glover Blackwell. Ms. Blackwell also serves as advisory board chair of the Robert Wood...
View ArticleBeyonce Surprises “Lets Move” Kids
So, this is just great. In honor of First Lady Michelle Obama’s anti-obesity initiative, students at Harlem’s PS 161 were holding a Let’s Move flash mob and dancing to Beyonce’s “Get Me Bodied.” They...
View ArticleFair Food: Growing A Healthy, Sustainable Food System For All
In a very comprehensive and insightful way, Fair Food examines the problems of a broken food system, and puts forth bold – and doable – strategies to redesign a system that is healthy for people,...
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Props to Disney for Doing the Right Thing
Kudos to the Walt Disney Company for deciding to end promotion of candy, sugar sweetened drinks, and other unhealthy foods and beverages on Saturday morning TV! And what’s more, the company is making...
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