Leading the Way for Children’s Health

Posted by on March 10, 2014

Leading the Way for Children’s Health

July 2012 – June 2013 Annual Report or the Alliance for a Healthier Generation

For the first time in three decades, we are starting to see some data indicating that, for some populations in some states and localities, the incredibly high rates of child obesity are starting to decline. The declines are modest and, for the most part, not evident in the populations at highest risk. However, after two decades of consistent increases in child obesity rates, followed by a number of years in which the rates stayed flat, any declines are a cause for celebration. After celebrating, we need to get back to work. In order to avoid catastrophic public health and economic consequences, we must dramatically reduce our current high rates of child obesity. And we need to do it across all populations.

https://www.healthiergeneration.org/_asset/nhlqzr/alliance-annual-report-2012-13.pdf