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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...
...part of its fight against childhood obesity, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is seeding local initiatives like the Healthy Schools Program, which will provide on-site support for more than 8,000 schools by 2010, improving access to healthy food and increasing opportunities for students to exercise. Last year 16 states supported policies to improve physical-education classes, which have been cut back severely in recent years, and just this month Florida governor Charlie Crist signed a bill requiring physical-education programs in the state's elementary schools. Denver has renovated more than 50 school playgrounds, significantly increasing children...
...many of the ads were for just the kinds of nutritional junk that's causing so many of our problems. The $2 billion--plus marketing budget of a company like Coca-Cola dwarfs even the $500 million over five years being spent on childhood obesity by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation...
...American in L.A., a poor white kid in the hills of West Virginia--no one asks to be born into an environment where obesity seems to be the default fate. "This is probably the most important public-health problem facing the country today," says Lavizzo-Mourey of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. "We are committed to doing what it takes, for as long as it takes." So should we all be, until childhood obesity no longer has a geography...
...rack up favors and lives quietly in a modest Tel Aviv home with her husband and two sons. And she has strong views on probity in the public sphere. "I resent the idea that corruption comes with the political system," she tells Time in her glass-and-wood-paneled Jerusalem office. "It doesn...