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This document describes a set of 5 recommendations and supporting strategies to accelerate progress toward obesity prevention in the next decade. The document also identifies potential measures to access progress toward this goal.
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Field-Based Summary or Case Study. Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention: These would include elements such as routine screening of body mass index and obesity training for medical school students and nurses. Doctors and nurses also need to serve as role models for their patients and provide leadership for obesity prevention efforts in their communities, the report said.
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Insurers and employers should develop initiatives that offer incentive to maintain a healthy lifestyle, the committee wrote. Schools should be the focal point of change, it added, by making sure students get at least 60 minutes of exercise every day and by implementing strong nutritional standards for all food sold in their cafeterias. Michael Jacobson, executive director of the nutrition advocacy group Centers for Science in the Public Interest, said the report "provides an excellent blueprint for solving America's costly obesity problem.
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The report was also lauded by the American Heart Association. In a statement, AHA CEO Nancy Brown said all five recommendations "must be pursued fervently if we as a nation are to triumph over obesity," adding that the organization "has long been committed to raising the public's awareness about the powerful link between obesity and cardiovascular disease. But the Center for Consumer Freedom, a nonprofit group supported by restaurants and food vendors, called the report's endorsement of policies such as soda taxes and restaurant zoning laws "misguided.
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Justin Wilson, a senior research analyst with the organization, said in a statement. It is arrogant and absurd to suggest that Americans are too stupid to make their own food choices. Glickman is the executive director of congressional programs at the Aspen Institute in Washington.