2.  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

3.  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

4.  Aim: make sitting as socially unacceptable as smoking or drinking and driving  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXijq aIH2NA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXijq aIH2NA

5.  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

6.  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

7.  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

8.  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

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

10.  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