 Target Audience  All Health Care Professionals  Educators  Parents, and many more..  Objective  Discover common ground toward the elimination of childhood obesity in a generation  16 speakers  FREE FOOD

 Focus on physical activity – less controversy  More convenient to be active  Studies on physical activity in schools  Active study breaks increased academic achievement even with lost class time  Stop framing physical activity

 Aim: make sitting as socially unacceptable as smoking or drinking and driving  aIH2NA aIH2NA

 Provide information and tools to parents to make healthy choices for their kids  Increase healthy foods in schools  Ensure families have access to healthy food  Increase opportunity for kids to be active

 Differences in bariatric surgeries  Procedure most often used?  Patients know what they want  LA has 17 ads for lap-band surgery in a 4 mile drive

 Should milk be recommended to help maintain healthy weight?  Promoted for growth, healthy pregnancy, strength, and sports performance  “Milk Your Diet. Lose Weight”  Evidence:  No support for claims that added dairy products facilitate weight loss

 Experiments with Food Labeling  Pre and post labeling in NYC  Consumed MORE calories  Controlled experiments with calorie content or exercise required  Consumers did not like the exercise labeling  Believed consumers don’t fully understand what a “calorie” is

 Author of “Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat: How to Break Your Eat- Repent-Repeat Cycle”  Creator of Am I Hungry? Workshops   Won a book!

 What you eat is largely dependent on why you are eating  Don’t teach people to use exercise as punishment  Never talk about weight management and physical activity in the same session  3 types of eating: Instinctive, Overeating, and Restrictive  Find perfect arc in your pendulum