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Youth Obesity
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The Youth Obesity Prevention Summit will give BoHS members and their faculty, Family and Consumer Sciences Alliance members and other important partners time to focus on the important and relevant topic of Youth Obesity Prevention. The goal of the Summit is to educate, collaborate and generate an action plan that will strengthen the presence of Human Sciences in addressing the issue of Youth Obesity Prevention. Dr. Alice Lichtenstein of Tufts University is the inspiring opening speaker. She co-authored the article Bring Back Home Economics Education, which begins by stating, “Home economics, otherwise known as domestic education, was a fixture in secondary schools through the 1960s, at least for girls. The underlying concept was that future homemakers should be educated in the care and feeding of their families. This idea now seems quaint, but in the midst of a pediatric obesity epidemic and concerns about the poor diet quality of adolescents in the United States, instruction in basic food preparation and meal planning skills needs to be part of any long-term solution”. View the entire article by clicking here. Dr. Brian Wansink of Cornell University is the distinguished keynote speaker. He directs the Cornell Food and Brand Laboratory and is the lead author of over 100 academic articles and books on eating behavior, including the best-selling Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think, Marketing Nutrition, Asking Questions, and Consumer Panels. Dr. Wansink is known as the Sherlock Holmes of food, constantly investigating why people eat what they do. Wansink’s award-winning academic research on changing eating behaviors has been published in the world’s top marketing, medical, nutrition and obesity journals. Additional Information about Dr. Wansink can be found on his website by clicking here. The Summit will showcase model programs for Youth Obesity Prevention in the human sciences and other disciplines. Experts in medicine, social work and other disciplines will present philosophical models of successful programs and describe opportunities for collaborative research, education and outreach. The Summit will conclude with a response and call to action.
We encourage anyone interested in addressing the important issue of youth obesity to attend the Youth Obesity Prevention Summit. Registration for the Summit is $125 prior to February 10, 2012 and $175 after that.
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