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... Presenters called for more research to determine the most effective interventions and for continued cooperation across sectors to integrate, as one speaker described it, "health in all policies." From healthier lunches for school children, to mixed-use development that encourages walking over driving, to labeling and other means of giving consumers easy-to-understand information with which to make better health decisions, many actions are being taken to combat obesity in the United States and the United Kingdom. While far from an exhaustive 
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... For instance, in the United Kingdom, data show some disparities in the prevalence of obesity by social class among women. In the United States, data show some disparities in children by ethnic group and education of the head of household.
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... offered the following observations: • overnment programs and policies to address obesity in both G countries must come from a range of departments and agencies, including health, food assistance, transportation, and others. • he national government in the United Kingdom, reflecting its T more vertically integrated role relative to that in the United States, has developed a cross-government strategy called Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives.
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... PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT Another workshop panel emphasized strategies to increase people's everyday physical activity by, for example, promoting walking, biking, and use of public transit for commuting and shopping. Harriet Tregoning (Washington, DC, Office of Planning)
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... • chool systems offer physical education classes and recesses/activity S breaks during the school week, but few consider these an integral part of education, especially as students progress from elementary through high school. • he UK Food Standards Agency efforts in salt reduction have T resulted in reformulated products, improved messaging about nutrition to consumers at the point of purchase, and other changes that can promote better health.
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... • ap into resources from multiple sources, such as philanthropies, T grants, and new commercial and residential development, espe cially in this era of declining public revenues. CLOSINg REMARKS At the end of the day, Jackson and Dietz summarized some of the main messages of the workshop.
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