Bill Clinton & Governor Schwarznegger at Obesity Summit: Fighting Obesity by Changing Environment

Convening the 2010 Governor’s Summit on Health, Nutrition and Obesity: Action for Healthy Living, in Los Angeles on February 24, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and President Bill Clinton will bring diverse stakeholders — including members of the California Convergence — to discuss the best policy and practices to combat obesity and
improve the health and physical fitness of Californians.

The announcement applauds some of the nation’s most innovative and successful strategies, developed in California to promote health and nutrition through policy and change in the food and exercise environment, including:

• tough school nutrition reforms and fresh foods for school lunch menus
• restaurant nutrition listings for chains of 20+ outets
• transfat ban
• first-ever PE standards

Learn more about The City Project’s campaign to enforce physical education and civil rights standards in public schools here . . .

Learn more about the campaign to keep California State Parks Open for All . . .