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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, has scheduled its inaugural conference on obesity prevention and control, Weight of the Nation, for July 27-29 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C. Planning for the conference is being done in consultation with the Division of Adolescent and School Health, the Division of Adult and Community Health, the Association of State and Territorial Public Health Nutrition Directors, the Directors of Health Promotion and Education, and the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors.

The conference objectives are to: highlight strategies that overcome barriers to the primary prevention of obesity for youth and adults in communities, medical care, schools, and workplaces; provide economic analysis of obesity prevention and control efforts (e.g., cost burden of obesity on healthcare system and employers, cost effectiveness of prevention); provide forum to share promising, emerging, and best practices for setting specific policy and environmental initiatives impacting obesity; and highlight the use of law-based efforts to prevent and control obesity (e.g., legislation, regulation and policies).

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