Last December, we noted that some cities and states have begun to measure declines in their childhood obesity rates. As The New York Times put it then, these declines “offer the first indication that the obesity epidemic, one of the nation’s most intractable health problems, may actually be reversing course.”
On July 9, more than 250 people gathered in the gym of the National Capital Y in Washington, D.C., to hear from leaders representing four states and five cities or counties recording declines in their childhood obesity rates.
