Alliances for Obesity Prevention Finding Common Ground: Workshop Summary (2012) / Chapter Skim
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1 Background and Rationale
1 Background and Rationale
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The report did not mention obesity, but Kumanyika immediately realized that such a network would have an incidental co-benefit for prevention of childhood obesity by getting children to engage in more physical activity. Thus a public policy intervention designed for one purpose could serve another.
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It should be noted that, given limitations of both time and scope, the workshop could not address all issues related to alliances for obesity prevention. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND OBESITY PREVENTION The chair of the workshop planning committee, Thomas Robinson, Irving Schulman Endowed Professor in Child Health at the Stanford University School of Medicine, has worked extensively on alliances between organizations to prevent childhood obesity, and he elaborated on the rationale for the workshop.
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"It's about the costumes, it's about the music, it's about learning about your cultural heritage, it's about the importance of doing dances that your parents did when they were growing up in Mexico." Another example involves overweight children on sports teams. These children tend not to join sports teams, but they may be much more likely to do so if they are joining a league that is just for overweight
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Thus one study of team sports for overweight children found that body mass index (BMI) declined in the intervention group compared with a control group even when the controls received nutrition and health education (Weintraub et al., 2008)
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As an example of this last factor, Robinson described an experiment he conducted at Stanford with a class called Food and Society. The course covers agricultural policies, labor issues, consumerism, animal rights, animal welfare, environmental issues, and other topics related to food and agriculture that are not necessarily directly related to nutrition and health.
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The first panel looked at groups and programs focused on food and nutrition; the second looked at groups and programs focused on physical activity and the built environment. Together, these two panels represented a sizable list of potential allies in the effort to prevent childhood obesity, and pointed toward a much larger list.
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