CDC Holds Inaugural Conference to Address Obesity Crisis in the United States

WHAT: Weight of the Nation Conference

WHO: The primary audience includes elected and appointed public policy makers;
federal, state and local public health leaders; as well as partners and
researchers engaged in policy-related obesity prevention and control
initiatives.

Weight of the Nation is designed to provide a forum to highlight progress in
the prevention and control of obesity through policy and environmental
strategies. The conference will:

-- Feature an address by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on HHS efforts to combat obesity.
-- Feature comments from Dr. Thomas Frieden, Director, Centers for
Disease
Control and Prevention.
-- Highlight strategies that overcome barriers to the primary prevention
of
obesity for youth and adults in four settings: communities, medical
care, schools, and workplaces.
-- Provide economic analysis of obesity prevention and control efforts,
such as the cost burden of obesity on healthcare system and employers
and the cost effectiveness of prevention.
-- Highlight the use of law-based efforts to prevent and control obesity.

-- Determine promising strategies for the prevention and control of
obesity.

WHEN: July 27-29, 2009

WHERE: Omni Shoreham Hotel
2500 Calvert Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20008

Important instructions: Registration for media is free. Media are asked to
register using the code "press2009won." You will have to verify your press
credentials at the onsite registration table.

For more information about the conference and to view the full program
schedule, visit: www.weightofthenation.org

CONTACT: CDC Division of Media Relations, +1-404-639-3286

/PRNewswire-USNewswire -- July 10/

SOURCE Centers for Disease Control and Prevention