Deadline- August 9, 2012
Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). The program supports research on environmental and policy strategies with strong potential to promote healthy eating among children to prevent childhood obesity, especially among lower-income and racial and ethnic populations at highest risk for obesity. Findings are expected to advance RWJF’s efforts to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015.
Today, more than 23 million U.S. children and adolescents—nearly one in three young people—are either overweight or obese.
Changes in children’s food environments over the past few decades have increased the availability, appeal, affordability, and consumption of foods and beverages that are low in nutrients, but high in fat, sugar, and calories. Few children and adolescents in the United States consume diets that meet national guidelines for good health as recommended in the federal Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2010, with many youths consuming excess fat, added sugars, and calories. Paralleling changes in the food environment are social and environmental changes that have reduced opportunities for children to be physically active.\
This call for proposals (CFP) is for two types of awards aimed at providing key decision- and policy-makers with evidence to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic.
Eligibility –
- Preference will be given to applicant organizations that are either public entities or nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
- Applicant organizations must be based in the United States or its territories. The focus of this program is the United States; studies in other countries will be considered only to the extent that they may directly inform U.S. policy.
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