Preventing Childhood Overweight

and Obesity

Cooperative Exentsion: Making A Difference in Nutrition

and Fitness in Families, Youth, and Communities!

A Southern Region Conference hosted by Family, Youth & Community Sciences University of Florida and the National Association of State Universities and Land-grant Colleges

August 1, 2006: The Society for Research in Child Development has a new Social Policy Report on childhood obesity that reviews recent research and provides policy recommendations.  The brief is available on-line as a free Adobe Acrobat document: http://www.srcd.org/documents/publications/SPR/spr20-2.pdf