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Obesity Consortium of Minnesota

The Obesity Consortium of Minnesota was established to facilitate multidisciplinary collaboration and foster cooperation in obesity research, education, and outreach efforts at the University of Minnesota. The Consortium links three obesity centers at the University: Obesity Prevention Center, Minnesota Obesity Center, and Transdisciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer.

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A Conference on Measuring Childhood Obesity

Sponsored by the University of Minnesota School of Nursing and the University of Minnesota Obesity Prevention Center, this was a conference that took place on March 24, 2008 titled, Measuring Childhood Obesity: Public Health Surveillance OR School-based Screening and Parent Notification? A local, state and international perspective.

The University of Minnesota School of Nursing archived the conference proceedings and presentations.

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Seminar Series: Minnesota Obesity Center

A seminar series, titled “Health Behaviors: Molecules to Policy,” is being sponsored by the Obesity Prevention Center, the Cancer Center and Minnesota Obesity Center. The goal of the series is to discuss research issues that cross-cut energy balance related health behaviors, primarily smoking, eating, alcohol and physical activity.

The web page includes links to descriptions of past speaker series events starting from 1996.

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Minnesota Obesity Center

The Minnesota Obesity Center is a Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC) funded by the National Institute of Diabetes, and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health.

The Minnesota Obesity Center has 73 active researchers with 137 funded projects in obesity, energy metabolism and eating disorders, generating over $34 million per year in grant support for their investigations.

The Center incorporates researchers who are studying the causes and treatments of obesity

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Research Highlights: Obesity

Highlights of and links to current research on obesity by researchers at the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health.

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Public Health Advances: Obesity Archives

Public Health Advances is a blog out of the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health. This link takes you to all of the archived blog posts related to obesity. Posts include information on new research findings, public policy initiatives, and projects by current students and alumni of the School of Public Health.

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Obesity data for Minnesota

Data graphs show obesity rates in Minnesota broken down by geography (region and county), income, age, gender and education. Also comparisons with other states.

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Strategies for reducing obesity through system-change

Obesity in Minnesota is becoming a major health concern. Learn about effective strategies your community can employ to reduce obesity.

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Minnesota Initiative on Food and Health Ethics

In September 2009, the Caux Round Table (CRT) hosted its first conference on the subject of food and health ethics. An array of key issues involving the food and health sectors was explored. The conference generated ongoing discussion about the centrality of ethical concerns as production, consumption and distribution systems are revised and reworked in order to address urgent problems related to our food and health, such as the crises of obesity and diabetes.

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Jeanette Leehr
2010-10-29 18:19
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Community Blooms

“Community Blooms” is a cooperative community garden project designed on a financially self-sustaining model that provides nutritious produce to low-income families. Surplus produce is donated to the local food shelf during the week and produce collected on Saturdays is sold at a local farmer’s market. As a community co-op garden participants develop relationships that support the goal of providing affordable nutritious food for everyone in a neighborhood setting.

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Allan Bakke
2010-10-29 12:51
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