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Issue 15: Obesity crisis or soda scapegoat? The debate over selling soda in schools

Saturday, January 01, 2005

In 1999 a Venice High School student asked a simple question: Can the school sell 100% fruit juice in its vending machines? No, said the school — our soda contract forbids it. The ensuing battle led the Los Angeles School Board to ban the sale of soda on its campuses. In Issue 15, we dissect the debate in news coverage of the soda sales bans and find that by acknowledging the complexity of the obesity crises, supporters of the soda sales bans may be undermining their own arguments.

Auto hazard control: Lessons for addressing obesity from the history of auto hazard control

Friday, October 08, 2004

Death and injury from motor vehicle crashes had reached epidemic levels by the 1950s and continues at unacceptably high levels today. The lessons learned in failed and successful attempts to reduce auto crash losses can provide guideposts for obesity control efforts.

Accelerating policy on nutrition: Lessons from tobacco, alcohol, firearms and traffic safety — preliminary report [pdf]

Friday, January 09, 2004

This preliminary report captures advice from a meeting that uncovered practical experience from specific policy battles in tobacco, alcohol, firearms, and traffic safety to help public health funders and practitioners identify how to speed up progress on obesity. These lessons are integrated into the final report. The appendix outlines the components of an infrastructure to support policy advocacy to prevent and reduce obesity.

Alcohol: Lessons for addressing obesity from the history of alcohol control

Friday, January 09, 2004

Alcohol policy work has a number of important similarities to nutrition and fitness policy. Looking back at its successes and challenges holds important lessons for advocates wanting to shape policy on childhood obesity.

Guns: Lessons for addressing obesity from a public health approach to gun violence

Friday, January 09, 2004

This memorandum reviews the history of the public health approach to gun violence prevention, with a focus on certain aspects of firearm policy-making in the United States, to determine what lessons from those experiences may relate to policy changes regarding nutrition and obesity.

Obesity: Environmental strategies for preventing childhood obesity

Friday, January 09, 2004

Childhood overweight and physical inactivity have reached epidemic levels in the United States, and they are taking a terrible toll on health. This memo explores the prevalence of the problem, its causes and implications, and some of the issues that are blocking the development of a strong consumer-based movement aimed at prevention.

Tobacco: Lessons for addressing obesity from the history of tobacco control

Friday, January 09, 2004

Understanding the shift in tobacco control from primarily behavioral approaches toward policy approaches can provide insight into a winning strategy that can be applied to obesity prevention.

Accelerating policy on nutrition: Lessons from tobacco, alcohol, firearms and traffic safety — appendix [pdf]

Friday, January 09, 2004

This appendix to the preliminary report outlines the components of an infrastructure to support policy advocacy to prevent and reduce obesity: policy advocacy support, bridging, and media advocacy. It also describes 20 research questions for accelerating progress on obesity.

Making the case for early care and education: A message development guide for advocates [pdf]

Thursday, January 01, 2004

We wrote this handbook to help the national child care community communicate effectively with journalists and others. The guide summarizes public opinion and media research on child care and provides a menu of tested messages for advocates. It is modeled after a similar document created in the 1980s by the Advocacy Institute to assist tobacco-control advocates. The appendix contains a report from Ethel Klein, who conducted the public opinion research BMSG commissioned for the message guide.

Mobilizing support for child care: Five key messages [pdf]

Thursday, January 01, 2004

This appendix to Making the Case for Early Care and Education: A Message Development Guide for Advocates contains a report from Ethel Klein of EDK Associates in New York, who conducted the public opinion research BMSG commissioned for the message guide.

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