Conference Shared Ways to End the Obesity Epidemic

BY CLAIRE MITCHELL | SEP 29, 2010
" 'The status quo cannot remain,' implored Sam Kass, senior policy advisor for Healthy Food Initiatives and White House chef, during his keynote address that kicked off the 33rd Annual National Food Policy Conference last week. --------- The status quo to which Kass was referring is the 1 in 3 children in the US currently reported by the Centers for Disease Control to be obese, the $215 billion spent on annual economic costs associated with obesity, the portion sizes at restaurants that have expanded to be 2 to 5 times larger than historical servings, the 27 percent of people ages 17-34 who are ineligible for military service due to obesity, and the fact that for the first time in our history, the current generation of children may have a shorter life span than their parents.

Those statistics are just some of the reasons why this year's Food Policy Conference focused primarily on childhood obesity."

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2010/09/do-it-for-the-kids/