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Curtatone serving on national board attacking childhood obesity - Somerville Journal- Topic: Childhood Obesity News

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The committee will research efforts by local governments across the country to curb childhood obesity and will produce a study containing best practices to share with local leaders. The committee will hold three meetings over the next year, beginning with the initial meeting on November 10th and 11th. The committee will produce a report in 2009 to be published by the national Academies Press and will be shared with mayors; county, city, or township commissioners or other officials; local health departments; local boards of health; city planners; and other relevant local commissions and public entities. Established in 1970 under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine provides independent, objective, evidence-based advice to policymakers, health professionals, the private sector, and the public. Read Childhood Obesity

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