Obesity and Chronic Disease Committee
Action Plan
This committee's intent is to provide a community-based approach to address the growing problem of overweight and obesity, factors that contribute to the development and complications associated with many chronic illnesses.
Obesity prevention articles and reports
Below are some of the materials that the committee is using to provide guidance or inspiration to the development of new action steps and approaches.
- Barriers to Buying Healthy Foods for People With Diabetes: Evidence of Enviromental Disparities
- Cape Fear Healthy Carolinians Obesity Prevention Program
- Childhood Obesity (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
- Community Guide to Preventive Services (website)
- A Community Intervention Reduces BMI z-score in Children: Shape Up Somerville First Year Results
- Disparities in Access to Fresh Produce in Low-Income Neighborhoods in Los Angeles
- Food store availability and neighborhood characteristics in the United States
- Fruit and vegetable access in four low-income food deserts communities in Minnesota
- Fruit and Vegetable Consumption by Low-Income Americans
- Healthy Foods in Minneapolis Urban Communities: Economic, Policy and Community Strategies to Improve Healthy Food Access
- Household Food Security in the United States, 2002
- Insidious Consumption: Surprising Factors That Influence What We Eat and How Much
- National Summit on Obesity - Building a plan to reduce obesity in America
- Neighborhood Characteristics Associated with the Location of Food Stores and Food Service Places
- Neighborhood Racial Composition, Neighborhood Poverty, and the Spatial Accessibility of Supermarkets in Metropolitan Detroit
- Pilot Programs Bibliography
- The Potential Role of an Urban School Food Network to Advance School Meal Reform
- Rome, Italy: A Model in Public Food Procurement (Briefing Paper)
- Supermarkets, Other Food Stores, and Obesity / The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study
- You Are Where You Shop: Grocery Store Locations, Weight, and Neighborhoods
Standing Meetings
We meet on the First Wednesday of the month, 8:30-10:00 at the Health Department.Meetings in 2008:
- February 6
- March 5
- April 2
- May 7
- June 4
- July 2
- August 6
- September 3
- October 1
- November 5
- December 3