Childhood Obesity

N.C. shut out of childhood obesity grants (The Fayetteville Observer)

3 Dec 2008

North Carolina has been shut out of a first round of foundation grants to fight childhood obesity, even though the state has been identified as one of 15 where kids pack on pounds.

Good, Bad And Ugly In Food Marketing Focus Of $6.4 Million Childhood Obesity Grant To Rudd Center At Yale (Medical News Today)

3 Dec 2008

The link between food marketing and the growing childhood obesity epidemic is the focus of a $6.4 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University. Principal investigators, Rudd Center Director Kelly D.

$44 Million National Program Aims to Reverse Childhood Obesity (PNN)

3 Dec 2008

As the first investment of a new $44 million initiative, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has awarded grants of up to $400,000 to nine communities across the country that will serve as leading sites for its most ambitious effort yet to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic.