{"id":3358,"date":"2009-07-30T12:17:50","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T10:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=3358"},"modified":"2015-10-17T08:38:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T06:38:22","slug":"weight-of-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=3358","title":{"rendered":"Weight of the Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A highly interesting conference was held in Washington DC in July 2009 to provide a forum to highlight progress in the prevention and control of obesity through policy and environmental strategies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Objectives:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Highlight strategies that overcome barriers to the primary prevention of obesity for youth and adults in communities,<br \/>\nmedical care, schools, and workplaces.<br \/>\n2. Provide economic analysis of obesity prevention and control efforts.<br \/>\n3. Share promising, emerging, and best practices for setting specific policy and environmental initiatives<br \/>\nimpacting obesity.<br \/>\n4. Highlight the use of law-based efforts to prevent and control obesity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program highlights:<\/strong><br \/>\nReport on Cost Burden of Obesity<br \/>\nImproving Health Outcomes: Integrating Obesity Prevention in Health Reform<br \/>\nNexus between Transportation and Obesity Prevention<br \/>\nNexus between Food Systems and Obesity Prevention<br \/>\nCollaboration Fosters Healthy Places and Healthy People<br \/>\nInnovative Policy Initiatives at the Local Level<br \/>\nFocusing State Health Departments on Obesity Prevention<br \/>\nImproving Access To Healthy Places and Healthy Foods &#8211; Impact of Federal Legislation on Obesity Prevention and Control<\/p>\n<p>Find the program including speaker names <a href=\"http:\/\/guest.cvent.com\/EVENTS\/Info\/Custom.aspx?cid=20&#038;e=815f3980-e9c7-4a48-8569-a6daf4e39e8b\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From August 14&#8217;th a webcast from this event will be available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adph.org\/ALPHTN\/index.asp?id=2438\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A highly interesting conference was held in Washington DC in July 2009 to provide a forum to highlight progress in the prevention and control of obesity through policy and environmental strategies. Program Objectives: 1. Highlight strategies that overcome barriers to the primary prevention of obesity for youth and adults in communities, medical care, schools, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,13,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3358"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3362,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358\/revisions\/3362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}