Hugh Price and Oliver Sloman, writing in the Houston Chronicle, urge health care workers, schools, and communities to work together to combat childhood obesity. In addition to his position as senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, Price is co-chair of ASCD’s Commission on the Whole Child. Read the Commission’s report, The Learning Compact Redefined: A Call to Action.
Over the past few decades, a steady and dramatic increase in obesity has occurred throughout the entire U.S. population, particularly among children and youth. Currently, one third of American children and youth are either obese or at risk of becoming obese. Learn more about this issue and what it means to be healthy.
