News Medical reports on a roundtable that looked for solutions for childhood obesity. Todd McGuire, CTO of
incentaHEALTH of Denver, was one of the participants.
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"Teaching healthy practices in school is of vital importance but we all acknowledge that resource limitations often restrict what can be done there, and the engagement of businesses in support of that effort could help," says David L. Katz, MD, MPH, Editor-in-Chief of
Childhood Obesity, Director of Yale University's Prevention Research Center, and Moderator of the Roundtable Discussion. "There is an enormous opportunity to promote health with family as the basic functional unit and reach kids and teachers and adults in other worksites."
Roundtable participants included Deborah Lewison Grant, Co-Founder, FoodFight (New York, NY); Todd J. McGuire, Chief Technology Officer, incentaHEALTH, LLC (Denver, CO); Scott McQuigg, Chief Executive Officer, HealthTeacher, Inc. (Nashville, TN); Karen Voci, Executive Director, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation (Wellesley, MA); and Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD, Professor, Perelman School of Medicine and Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA).
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