Childhood Obesity Prevention

Let’s Move — Childhood Obesity Prevention from Pregnancy and Infancy Onward

Posted by NEJM • April 14th, 2010 • Printer-friendly

Janet M. Wojcicki, Ph.D., M.P.H., and Melvin B. Heyman, M.D., M.P.H.

First Lady Michelle Obama unveiled her “Let’s Move” campaign against childhood obesity on February 9, 2010. The program’s main antiobesity strategies are empowering parents and consumers by revamping the nutritional labeling of products by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), improving the nutritionalstandards of the National School Lunch Program, increasing children’s opportunities for physical activity, and improving access to high-quality foods in all U.S. communities (www.letsmove.gov)./.../