New White Paper on Health, Behavioral Design, and the Built Environment

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Food and physical activity are both continuous and cumulative habits. Small changes every day can drastically improve your health and quality of life.

However, the built world, whether intentional or not, influences the human experience. Many people live and work in places that impede or reduce physical activity and sell or promote unhealthy food.

The National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research (NCCOR) brings together four of the nation’s leading research funders—the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)—to accelerate progress in reducing childhood obesity in America.

Their new white paper builds on a series of behavioral design meetings NCCOR hosted in 2015–2016 that brought together experts from a variety of fields, including architecture, environmental psychology, art, landscape architecture, human behavior, and philosophy and ethics.

Share this with childhood obesity researchers and practitioners to encourage them to consider the role of behavioral design enabling and promoting healthy eating and active living.

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