Childhood Obesity and Public Policy

February 21, 2008 presentation by Lisa Chamberlain, Sophia Yen, and Michelle Oppen for the Stanford School of Medicine Medcast lecture series.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that the percentage of children who are overweight has more than tripled since 1980. As this epidemic grows, the number of related health disorders in children grows with it. Stanford experts discuss the most critical public health policy changes that are needed.

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• public
• health
• childhood
• obesity
• diabetes
• heart
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• car
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• diet
• policy
• fast
• food
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• high
• fructose
• corn
• syrup
• fat
• snacks
• subsidies
• exercise
• fruits
• vegetables
• school
• lunch
• advertising

[grunder20]

Live healthy and you'll have no worries.

[agapitoflores001]

It should be well regulated to make it effective.

[longfootbuddy]

oh, are you going to force everyone to diet now?

[andada3]

@gldowa

It's called a vocal pause, you idiot. She is delivering extemporaneously. When you take higher speech courses they teach you not to worry about saying "um" and just talk like you are having a normal one-on-one conversation. I'd bet anything you couldn't get through a one minute speech without saying um!

[gldowa]

As soon as Michelle Oppen started talking, all I could hear was, "um blah blah um blah um blah blah." Every "um" drove me closer and closer to the brink of insanity, and I could not listen to her for more than a few minutes. The subject matter is very interesting, but she really needs to take some public speaking lessons. I wish I could comment more on the content, but I just could not bring myself to listen to her a second more.

[alphacause]

continued from prior post) I suggest that we include, in our academic standards for promoting a student to the next grade, and as a standard for graduation from middle/high school, weight standards. Hence, just as we use grades and standardized testing (in some states) to determine whether a child moves on from the 6th grade to 7th grade, so we need to start incorporating weight standards as part of the criteria as well. That means if Johnny is 50 lbs overweight, he doesn't pass or graduate

[alphacause]

The obesity epidemic among children is so out of hand, that I would say of all issues that threaten the future of this nation, the rapidly growing obesity problem of our youth will be the one culprit that, more than any other problem, will likely break this country in the future more so than terrorism, the deficit, global warming, or the machinations of foreign governments. The problem is so extreme, that I would propose a radical solution. (see in next post)

[smurfp4444]

Is food our next tabbacco ??????