Preventing Obesity Through Public Policy
Roberta Friedman, Director of Public Policy at the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity, and Kelly Brownell, Rudd Center Director, discuss preventing obesity through public policy.
The Rudd Report: Shape Up Somerville - A Social Movement
enApril 29, 2009
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About this Episode
Christina Economos, Chair, Childhood Nutrition; Assoc. Dir., John Hancock Center for Physical Activity & Nutrition, Tufts Univ., talks to Kelly Brownell, Dir., Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity, about Shape Up Somerville.
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