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Parents & Schools on OPEN/net
Hosted by Charles Coble
TUESDAY, April 1, 2008
8-9:00 pm

Child Nutrition and Obesity Prevention

More and more of North Carolina's children are overweight or obsese. Determining how this has happened is fairly straightforward - our young people are consuming more calories than they burn. But why this has happened and what we can do as a community to address this alarming trend is more complex. The family, the community, the school all have roles to play as we work together to try to reverse the trend and help our children live well and learn well. Join us for this hour of Parents and Schools on OPEN/net to discuss child nutrition and obesity prevention. Here to talk with you will be:

Sheree Vodicka, Healthy Weight Communications Manager for the Physical Activity and Nutrition Branch of the NC Division of Public Health;
Marie Shelton, Healthy Weight Communications Specialist with the Physical Activity and Nutrition Branch;
Marilyn Moody, Senior Director of Child Nutrition Services for the Wake County Public School System; and
Heidi Carter, a Board member of Durham Public Schools Board of Education, and a member of the Eat Smart Move More Advisory Council to the State Department of Public Health and of the DPS School Health Advisory Council.

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