Emmestyle

Back from my NBC-TV KNAZ flagstaff days!!! Love the hair:0

What a beautiful Easter this weekend! I hope those of you who celebrate Easter had a wonderful time with friends and family!

Sponsored by:

NATIONAL EATING DISORDERS ASSOCIATION and STOP Obesity Alliance

Hosted by: NYC Campus of Pace University

Friday April 2, 2010

One Pace Plaza, New York, NY

Multipurpose Room on the B level (Enter the building on 3 Spruce Street, between Nassau and Gold Streets

8:30 am Registration/breakfast

9:00-11:00am Panel discussion

FREE to public, all are welcome. Please register, space is limited: www.myneda.org, or click Weighty Matters Flyer, found above in upper right corner.

How should we be talking about weight, size and health? Are we missing the mark?

Join our impressive panelists, a unique mixture of leaders from the media, communications, eating disorder and obesity fields. Increasing public concern about the rise in obesity has led to societal confusion about what’s healthy and has created an unrealistic pressure to be thin. Coming together for the first time, this panel will make recommendations on how to effectively and responsibly communicate the connection between health and weight to the public. This roundtable will also address current perception, dialogue and images in media and entertainment which may be resulting in an increase of body image issues, eating disordered behaviors and obesity. Moderated by Diana Williams, WABC-TV

Susanna Schrobsdorff Executive Director, Newsweek Education

Dr. Max Gomez Medical Reporter, WCBS-TV

Emme Model and Activist, NEDA Ambassador

Ovidio Bermudez, MD Past President, NEDA, also representing AED, IAEDP, BEDA

Wendy Naugle Deputy Health Editor, Glamour Magazine

Donna Ryan, MD President, The Obesity Society

Joseph Nadglowski, Jr. President, Obesity
Action Coalition

Jen Drexler Partner, Just Ask A Woman

I felt Mo'nique's acceptance speech for best supporting actress stands far above the rest....in her beautiful electric blue ruched asymmetric dress.

I also feel compelled to thank Mo'nique's husband Sidney Hicks, for encouraging her to take on this role because it was an important role to play despite not being the most popular choice at the time.

Effects Of Family Meals, Sleeping And Screen Time On Obesity In Preschoolers - American Academy Of Pediatrics

Article Date: 08 Feb 2010 - 0:00 PST

Preschool children exposed to three household routines -- regularly eating family meals, getting adequate sleep, and limiting screen-viewing time -- had a roughly 40 percent lower prevalence of obesity than those exposed to none of these routines. The study, "Household Routines and Obesity in U.S. Preschool-Aged Children," published in the March issue of Pediatrics (appearing online Feb. 8), involved a cross-sectional analysis of 8,550 4-year-old U.S. children in which researchers examined the association between childhood obesity and three household routines. Eighteen percent of all the children in the study were obese.

Among those exposed to all three household routines, the prevalence of obesity was 14.3 percent, compared with 24.5 percent among those exposed to none of the routines. Each routine by itself was associated with lower risk of obesity, and the more routines children had the lower was their risk for obesity.

The association between having these routines and a lower risk of obesity was seen in both higher and lower income households and for children with and without an obese mother. Study authors suggest that these household routines offer a promising approach to preventing childhood obesity and the routines may also benefit other parts of children's development.

Source American Academy of Pediatrics

Thank you Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity (www.yaleruddcenter.org) for highlighting this article in your newsletter!