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...environment makes it easier or harder for healthy choices to be the default choices," says Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which last year pledged $500 million to end the rise in childhood obesity by 2015. "And adults create the environment that kids live...
...that's a $2,500 price increase each year. What's more, the study found, the number of private companies offering health benefits to employees shrank by 30,000. "Providing insurance coverage takes a bigger bite from the family budget every year," says Robert Wood Johnson's CEO Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey...
...test” is a concern of parents who consider leaving the public school system. “I feel the teachers are under incredible pressure in terms of the amount of testing they have to administer from the state as well as the district,” said Risa Lavelle, a parent of three, who said she is looking for a more “creative approach” that would utilize more one-on-one student learning and non-traditional teaching methods. “Teachers are willing to learn, change, grow, but I just feel they?...
...corporate and public-policy fields to unravel how Americans got themselves into such a fix and how to get out of it. Last week the American Diabetes Association named Naughton, along with childhood nutritionist Christina Economos and professor of nutrition Miriam Nelson, its Women of Valor for 2005. Said Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, CEO of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: "Eileen sets very high standards for herself and everyone around her and is not afraid to do things differently...
...Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, President and CEO, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation spoke of the foundation's effort to fund research into solutions for the crisis, but she warned that research takes time and action is needed now. "We cannot afford to surrender an entire generation to obesity while we're waiting to learn...