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The goal of the Healthy Options, Healthy Meals™ (HOHM) initiative is to increase access to nutritious foods for low-income families by assisting food banks in their efforts to improve the nutritional quality of their food inventory.
The goal of the Healthy Options, Healthy Meals™ (HOHM) initiative is to increase access to nutritious foods for low-income families by assisting food banks in their efforts to improve the nutritional quality of their food inventory.
The CWH will collaborate on 3 Special Projects as part of Network for a Healthy California’s work to expand and strengthen selected priority initiatives and programs focused on the Network target populations.
•Healthy Foods, Beverages and Physical Activity Intervention and Evaluation Plan
For the "Evaluation of the WIC Nutrition Education and Food Package Impact Study" (NEFPI), the CWH evaluated cross-sectional data collected from adult WIC participants at three time points following the implementation of the new WIC food package.
For this nationwide study of communities that examines childhood obesity programs and policies, "Studying Community Programs to Reduce Childhood Obesity", CWH will contribute to the overarching study design and provide scientific leadership (jointly with other team members) in the areas of: childhood obesity research; crafting the study objectives, logic model, and hypotheses while working with NH
The 2010 California Obesity Prevention Plan is a call to action for stakeholders from all the identified sectors—State, Local, and Tribal Governments; Employers; Health Care; Families; Community Organizations; Schools; Child Care; Food and Beverage Industry; and Entertainment and Professional Sports—to work together to improve the health of all Californians.
Associated with a tripling in obesity since 1970, type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in children has risen 9-10 fold. There is a critical need of protocols for trials to prevent T2DM in children. Evaluations completed to date suggest that Taking Action Together may be an effective intervention, and results warrant an expanded evaluation effort.
A community based lifestyle intervention program to reduce the risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus in overweight African American (AA) children was assessed for potential for effectiveness in a non-randomized pilot study, After one year, this community based intervention program effectively improved insulin resistance and thus reduced risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus in overweight AA boys but did n
A systematic literature review was conducted to determine whether sweetened beverage intake increases the risk for obesity, and the extent to which it has contributed to recent increases in energy intake and adiposity in the USA. All lines of evidence consistently support the conclusion that the consumption of sweetened beverages has contributed to the obesity epidemic. It is estimated that sweetened beverages account for at least one-fifth of the weight gained between 1977 and 2007 in the US population. Actions that are successful in reducing sweetened beverage consumption are likely to have a measurable impact on obesity.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta have a new website, LEANWorks! [where LEAN stands for "Leading Employees to Activity and Nutrition"], designed to help businesses address obesity. CDC LEANWorks! was developed in direct response to organizations asking CDC for help in addressing the obesity epidemic.
