[Youth-list] Foundation Commits $500 Million to Reverse Childhood Obesity

[Elizabeth Shack]

Foundation Commits $500 Million to Reverse Childhood Obesity    About 25 million kids and teens in the United States are overweight or obese. Unless we take action now to reverse this alarming trend, we're in danger of raising the first generation of American children who will live sicker and die younger than their parents' generation.  
  Childhood obesity is one of the most urgent and serious health threats confronting our nation. It deserves a serious response.
  That's why the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will commit at least $500 million over the next five years to fight childhood obesity. The Foundation's goal is to reverse the epidemic in the United States by 2015.
  This is the largest commitment any foundation has made to combat childhood obesity. As we embrace this new challenge, we expect to build on the lessons drawn from our past work on other critical health issues, such as preventing tobacco use and helping to roll out the nation's 9-1-1 emergency response system.
  Childhood obesity affects all of us—every race and ethnic group, all income levels and every area of the country. It's going to take all of us—government, schools, food and beverage companies, health care providers, families and other foundations—to turn the tide.
   
  Learn more about the Foundation's commitment to reverse the epidemic of childhood obesity.

  Go to:  
  http://www.rwjf.org/portfolios/features/featuredetail.jsp?featureID=2276&type=3&iaid=138

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