Legal Strategies in Childhood Obesity Prevention Workshop Summary (2011) / Chapter Skim
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All options for addressing the childhood obesity epidemic must therefore be explored. In the United States, legal approaches have successfully reduced other threats to public health, such as the lack of passive restraints in automobiles and the use of tobacco.
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Rising obesity rates have already contributed significantly to the growth in health care costs; according to a recent estimate, 1 The members of the planning committee for the workshop included Kelly Brownell of Yale University, William Dietz of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Robert Garcia of The City Project in Los Angeles, Mary Story of the University of Minnesota, Stephen Teret of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Joseph Thompson of the Robert Wood Johnson Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity. The planning committee's role was limited to planning the workshop and did not include the preparation of this summary; this summary was prepared by a rapporteur, in collaboration with IOM staff, as a factual account of the presentations and discussions that took place at the workshop.
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Rules and administrative codes issued by government agencies that have the full force and effect of law. annual direct health care costs in the United States total $168 billion (Cawley and Meyerhoefer, 2010)
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It was the involvement of legal and regulatory officials that yielded this rapid result. Another example involves the Cocoa and Rice Krispies cereal line, whose labels announced during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic that it "now helps support your child's immunity." After San Francisco city attorneys pursued Kellogg's for its labeling, with accompanying protests from various nongovernmental organizations and public health officials, the company changed its labeling.
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The trajectory and reach of the childhood obesity epidemic reflect changes in the society in which we live, and solving the problem will require similarly pervasive societal changes. Legal strategies are one approach, but they must be complemented by a wide range of other carefully considered interventions.
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