Join the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America, including Commission co-chair Mark McClellan, commissioners Katherine Baicker and Jim Towey, and staff director David R. Williams for a discussion about promoting health by improving access to healthy foods in the places where we live, learn, work and play.

Good nutrition is essential to good health.  Yet, obstacles to eating healthy – unhealthy food environments, lack of resources to purchase nutritious food regularly and lack of healthy food options in the community – represent major challenges for some to choose and maintain healthy eating habits.  Join the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America on August 10, for a discussion about promoting health by improving access to healthy foods.  This one-hour program is designed for those interested in creating environments that enable individuals to maintain a healthy diet and who might be unfamiliar with the Commission and its recommendations.

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Policymakers seeking to restrain the obesity epidemic can glean important lessons from the multipronged effort to combat tobacco use, contends a new report from the Urban Institute and the University of Virginia.On July 28, 2009, The Urban Institute will host a policy forum and webcast addressing these strategies.

Public policy interventions that halved adult tobacco use over four decades could be modified to fight obesity, such as imposing excise taxes on fattening foods, placing simple, graphic nutrition labels on the front of packages, requiring restaurant chains to put nutrition information next to each menu item, and banning the advertising and marketing of junk food. Join us for a lively discussion about what can happen when public health, commerce, and public policy collide.

Panelists will include:

John Calfee, resident scholar, American Enterprise Institute

Arthur Garson, Jr., executive vice president and provost, University of Virginia; former dean, University of Virginia’s School of Medicine

John Holahan, director, Health Policy Center, Urban Institute (moderator)

Matthew Myers, president, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids

Judith Thorman, senior vice president, government affairs, American Beverage Association

When: Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Time: 12:00pm –1:30 p.m.

To attend in Washington, D.C., RSVP at:

http://www.urban.org/events/other2/rsvp.cfm

To listen to the audio webcast or a recording, register at

http://www.visualwebcaster.com/event.asp?id=60564
 

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