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EXPLORING THE ROLE OF ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITY IN OVERWEIGHT CHILDREN
02 March 2007 - Cornell University
| The proportion of overweight children in the United States has almost doubled since the mid 1980’s, largely owing to the impact of social influences on children’s diet and physical activity patterns. |
The proportion of overweight children in the United States has almost doubled since the mid 1980’s, largely owing to the impact of social influences on children’s diet and physical activity patterns. Overweight Issues in Childhood, the Role of Environment & Community. The cost to attend is $10. Preregistration is required. The videoconference features nationally recognized experts discussing the impact of social influences on children’s diet and physical activity patterns that lead to overweight problems in children. Speakers will focus on successful efforts in combating childhood obesity that demand a coordinated effort by parents, school systems, communities and government representatives. The five-hour program will be carried live with time scheduled for questions from the satellite viewing audience. Nutritionists, registered dieticians, nurses, dietetic technicians, physicians, exercise physiologists, physicians’ assistants, family and consumer scientists, health educators and other health care providers will find the conference of particular interest. The $10 registration fee includes an information packet; all program related fees, refreshments and a certificate of attendance.
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Once called "the first American university" by educational historian Frederick Rudolph, Cornell University represents a distinctive mix of eminent scholarship and democratic ideals. Adding practical subjects to the classics and admitting qualified students regardless of nationality, race, social circumstance, gender, or religion was quite a departure when Cornell was founded in 1865.Today's Cornell reflects this heritage of egalitarian excellence. It is home to the nation's first colleges devoted to hotel administration, industrial and labor relations, and veterinary medicine. Both a private university and the land-grant institution of New York State, Cornell University is the most educationally diverse member of the Ivy League. On the Ithaca campus alone nearly 20,000 students representing every state and 120 countries choose from among 4,000 courses in 11 undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools. Many undergraduates participate in a wide range of interdisciplinary programs, play meaningful roles in original research, and study in Cornell programs in Washington, New York City, and the world over. In his first inaugural address, at the Weill Cornell Medical College campus in Qatar in October 2004, Jeffrey Lehman, the first Cornell alumnus to become its president, articulated a vision projecting Cornell as "the transnational university of the future." |
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