Preventing Childhood Obesity
A Healthy Imperative for Connecticut’s Next Generation

Friday, November 7, 2008
Legislative Office Building, 300 Capitol Avenue, Hartford

 

Links

U.S. Senator Christopher J. Dodd

Dodd, Harkin, Bingaman Call for New Obesity Taskforce (July 23, 2008)

Dodd: "Rising Childhood Obesity Rates are a Medical Emergency" (July 16, 2008)

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

Smallstep for Kids

Smallstep for Adults and Teens

Connecticut Childhood Obesity Council

Connecticut Commission on Children

Playbook for Prevention (PDF) -- See especially the Food and Exercise chapter

Connecticut Department of Public Health

Childhood obesity fact sheet (PDF)

Connecticut Department of Agriculture

Connecticut Grown

Governor's Committee on Physical Fitness

City of Norwalk

NorWALKERS

Yale University

Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity

Tufts University

Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy

Children in Balance

New England Handicapped Sports Association

 

Tipping the Scales in Favor of Our Children (PDF)
Report from Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation