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Date:7/29/2009

ce the nationwide prevalence of childhood obesity by 2015 and to empower children nationwide to make healthy lifestyle choices. The alliance works to positively affect places that can make a difference in a child's health: homes, schools, restaurants, doctor's offices, and communities. The alliance's Healthy Schools Program provides real tools and solutions to help schools become healthier places to learn and work. The Healthy Schools Program supports administrators, teachers, parents, and students in more than 5,000 schools across the nation to implement policies and programs that enable students to eat better and move more.

Baptist Health South Florida

• Baptist Health South Florida's Wellness Advantage is a comprehensive program offering health-related services to more than 13,000 employees. This program helps keep the non-profit health care organization's health care costs, including medical plan premiums and health care service utilization rates, as low as possible. Guided by a mission to have the healthiest workforce in America, Wellness Advantage offers free employee clinics, fitness centers, healthy menus and vending selections, and innovative disease management services.

Center for Science in the Public Interest

• The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has been a strong advocate for nutrition and health, food safety, alcohol policy, and sound science. CSPI has a reputation as an influential and independent science-based organization and is credited with leading the efforts for nutrition facts requirements on packaged foods, trans-fats labels, and improving school foods. Most recently, CSPI assisted New York City in adopting the nation's first ordinances to ban trans-fats from restaurants and list calorie information on menus and menu boards. CSPI is working on similar measures in other cities and states and in Congress.

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