| A HRSA-sponsored seminar on Overweight
and Obesity in Children and Adolescents, accessible online
and by phone, is scheduled for Thursday, April 4, between 2-3
p.m. Eastern Time.
The
session, made possible through the Maternal and Child Health
Bureau’s DataSpeak
technology, will examine the issue of overweight
and obese children and adolescents, whose numbers in the United
States have nearly doubled since 1980.
Van
Hubbard, M.D., Ph.D., director of the National Institutes of
Health’s Division of Nutrition Research Coordination, will provide
highlights of the Surgeon General's 2001 report on the topic.
Bonnie Spear, Ph.D., R.D., associate professor of pediatrics
at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, will describe Bright
Futures guidelines for promoting physical activity among children
and adolescents. Bright
Futures in Practice: Physical Activity is available through
the HRSA Information Center by calling 1-888-ASKHRSA.
The next DataSpeak conference
on the health
of U.S. immigrants is set for June 13.
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