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The National Policy & Legal Analysis Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity (NPLAN) provides leaders in the childhood obesity prevention field with focused legal research, model policies, fact sheets, toolkits, training and technical assistance to explain legal issues related to public health. Our goal is to help create strong childhood obesity policy interventions that will reverse the epidemic by 2015.

NPLAN Updates

  • Upcoming Webinar: Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes and Fees
     
    Free Webinar: September 21, 1:00 - 2:30 pm ET / 10:00 - 11:30 am PT  Register Now
    Today almost one-third of children in the United States are obese or overweight. Many studies have demonstrated a link between obesity and the consumption of sodas and other sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB). According to nutritional standards, sugar-sweetened beverages such as non-diet soft drinks,...
  • Walk on over to our SRTS & Liability Webinar Resources

    Did you miss our August webinar on Safe Routes to School and liability webinar? Want to hear one of the presentations again? Check out the recording and presentations for this webinar and others.

Childhood Obesity News Digest

  • Attacking Obesity by Making Parks Safer
    Chula Vista has been chosen as one of six cities across the nation to attack childhood obesity by addressing violence in parks and public spaces. The goal is to promote active living by creating a safer community.
  • Spoiled System: Eating Healthier Comes With a Price for Families
    The reasons fresh fruits and vegetables are so pricey compared with processed food in a carton are a complicated stew of government subsidies, politics and the whims of Mother Nature. But their combined might, say critics pushing fresh approach for a change in the way money is doled out, moves us away from fruits and vegetables and toward meat, dairy products and the sugar- and sodium-loaded processed foods for which crops like corn and wheat serve as the raw ingredients.
  • Obesity, Diabetes Increasingly Common in Region
    Most California adults are obese or overweight, and more than 2 million have been diagnosed with diabetes, [a new] study reveals. Both conditions increased significantly in just six years, with the prevalence of diabetes alone jumping nearly 26 percent statewide between 2001 and 2007, the study shows.