Tweetchat 8/23/13: Marketing, Obesity & Latino Kids



Salud America! and MomsRising invite you to a #FoodFri tweetchat about marketing, obesity and Latino children at noon central Friday, Aug. 23, 2013. #FoodFri is a weekly tweetchat MomsRising hosts on Twitter every Friday at noon central/1 p.m. eastern to provide a platform for our food policy partners and the larger food justice community to address food in schools, food marketing to children and other topics. Follow this week's tweetchat @MomsRising & Salud America! (Twitter handle @SaludToday) DATE: Friday, August 23, 2013 TIME: 1:00 PM EDT (noon CST) WHERE: On Twitter with hashtag #FoodFri WHO: @MomsRising, @SaludToday and YOU! Be sure to follow @MomsRising, @SaludToday and the hashtag #FoodFri to participate. For other upcoming #FoodFri chats, see here. For ...

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EVENT: New Insights into Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity



The 2012 International Society for Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity Annual Meeting, set for May 23-26, 2012, in Austin, Texas, is a unique opportunity to learn about behavioral nutrition and physical activity, interact with a broad constituency of leaders, and gain new insight into innovations in research, policy and practice. Register here. See a list of key speakers and special features here. Salud America! The RWJF Research Network to Prevent Obesity Among Latino Children, is an event sponsor. Salud America! is led by the Institute for Health Promotion Research at The UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, the team behind ...

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