How Did a Latino-Majority City Cut Obesity Rates from 35% to 29%?

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SA! E-n Summer 2013 coverHow do…

…city officials cut obesity rates from 35% to 29%? (Pg 1)

…Latino families go “a day without sugar”? (Pg 3)

Bodegas add healthier foods? (Pg 5)

Find the answers and more in the new Salud America! E-Newsletter.

Salud America! The RWJF Research Network to Prevent Obesity Among Latino Children is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The program aims to unite and increase the number of Latino stakeholders engaged in community change and research on environmental and policy solutions to the epidemic.

The network is directed by the Institute for Health Promotion Research at The UT Health Science Center at San Antonio.

For more info, go here.

By The Numbers By The Numbers

20.7

percent

of Latino kids have obesity (compared to 11.7% of white kids)

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