Nemours Children’s Hospital and the Winter Park Health Foundation (WPHF)–with a little help from 50 wiggly preschoolers–today launched a childhood obesity prevention initiative in Eatonville, Maitland and Winter Park child care settings in hopes of growing a healthier generation. The expansion of this one-of-a-kind initiative into 14 child care centers in Winter Park, Eatonville and [...]
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Regional Approach to Cutting Childhood Obesity Gets Attention
Key health care stakeholders and advocates for children from throughout Central Florida attended a recent work session in Orlando with representatives of the Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children (CLOCC), and informally agreed they would like to try to replicate the CLOCC program locally. And they also agreed they would like to focus on [...]
Florida on the Move’s Obesity Summit Draws a Capacity Crowd
Healthy People, Healthy Community, a Summit on Obesity sponsored by Florida on the Move with the support of AstraZeneca September 30 drew a capacity crowd from throughout Florida and as far away as Georgia and Indiana. The speakers alternately sized up the obesity problem and the impact it has on individuals and businesses, discussed ways [...]
CENTRAL FLORIDA GETS MOVING!
On National America On the Move Day, Community Leaders Announce “Florida on the Move” — A program to help Floridians get fit and lose weight. Orlando, FL, November 5, 2004 — Central Florida leaders–hoping to rein in on the sharp rise in obesity among residents–today announced Florida’s affiliation with America on the Move (AOM). Beginning [...]
Team Orlando: Central Florida Leaders Join Obesity Summit
Eighteen Central Florida community leaders today joined another 400 representatives from around the country to look for answers to the nation’s obesity epidemic at the national Summit on Obesity today through June 4 in Williamsburg, Virginia. The first comprehensive meeting of its kind, the Summit on Obesity is being hosted by TIME Magazine, along with [...]
