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Childhood obesity is topic for UCSF health policy lecture - UCSF News Office- Topic: Childhood Obesity News

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Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, MBA, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will address the issue of childhood obesity on Wednesday, May 21, as featured speaker in the UCSF Chancellor’s Health Policy Lecture Series. A practicing physician with business credentials and hands-on experience developing national health policy, Lavizzo-Mourey was drawn to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation by the opportunity, as she puts it, to “alter the trajectory and to push society to change for the better. The series brings a major figure in health policy to the UCSF campus to raise awareness in the community of the important health policy issues of the day. In addition to her public lecture, Lavizzo-Mourey will meet throughout the day with leaders of UCSF’s four schoolsdentistry, medicine, nursing, and pharmacyUCSF Medical Center, and friends of the University. Several factors have contributed to the rise in obesity, she says, including the dramatic increase in food portion sizes starting with the fast food super-size movement in the 1980s. The portion of Americans’ food budgets spent on meals outside the home increased from 27 percent of household food budgets in 1962 to 46 percent of these budgets in 2002. Read Childhood Obesity

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