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Workshop speakers individually noted that although the reasons for this turnaround are as complex and multifaceted as the reasons for the dramatic rise in obesity rates in recent decades, interventions to improve nutrition and increase physical activity are almost certainly major contributors. Yet major problems remain.
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On January 7, 2014, the roundtable held its first public event, a halfday workshop titled "The Current State of Obesity Solutions in the United BOX 1-1 The Institute of Medicine and the Obesity Crisis At the inaugural public event of the newly formed Roundtable on Obesity Solu tions, Harvey Fineberg, president of the Institute of Medicine, lauded the recent declines in obesity rates among some population groups in the United States. "But how do we make the decline of obesity not the exception but the norm?
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The workshop was planned by Lisa Gable, president of the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation; Shiriki Kumanyika, associate dean for health promotion and disease prevention at the University of Pennsylvania; Russell Pate, professor of exercise science at the University of South Carolina; Bill Purcell, attorney at law, Jones Hawkins & Farmer, PLC; Loel Solomon, vice president for community health at Kaiser Permanente; and Mary Story, professor of global health and community and family medicine at Duke University. This workshop summary describes the major observations, conclusions, and suggestions made by the presenters during their talks and subsequent discussions with workshop participants.
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, health care institutions (Chapter 6) , communities and states (Chapter 7)
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