Topic: Building Health into our Neighborhoods:
How individual and community action intersect to reduce obesity
February 12, 2010
Hosted by Mike & Kathren Cavanaugh . . Read the dinner and discussion summary here
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Philip Wu, M.D Clinical Pediatric Lead for Kaiser's Care Management Institute Weight Management Initiative |
Noelle Dobson Project Director, Healthy Eating Active Living Initiative, Community Health Partnership: Oregon's Public Health Institute |
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"As the national health care reform debate continues, the 20th anniversary edition of America's Health Rankings has reported that obesity has increased nearly 130 percent in the past 20 years. Currently, 27 percent of the population is obese -- more than one in four Americans.If current trends continue, 103 million American adults -- or 43 percent of the population -- will be considered obese in 2018."
The Star Press, Kathy Kirby, January 17, 2010
Guests considered the following questions and articles:
1. How does the built environment affect our health and how has this changed over the past century?
2. What responsibility do communities versus individuals have in solving the obesity epidemic?
3. What is "active transportation?"
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Because together, we can do more.