Obesity

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Prevention of Obesity
The program supports research on environmental and policy strategies to promote healthy eating among children to prevent childhood obesity, especially among the low-income and racial and ethnic populations at the highest risk for obesity


Study Finds Food Companies Aggressively Market Least Healthy Cereals to Children
The findings are part of an extensive analysis of children's cereals conducted by researchers at the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity.
As part of the RWJF-funded Cereal FACTS (Food Advertising to Children and Teens Score) project. The results of this study; were presented at the 2009 Obesity Society Meeting in Washington, D.C.


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