part of our fall 2015 Food Policy for Breakfast Seminar Series

A Conversation with:

Dr. Jim Krieger, Executive Director, Action for Healthy Food, a non-profit founded in late 2014 to reduce the burden of obesity and chronic disease. It focus on promoting healthy food consumption and accessibility while reducing exposure to and consumption of unhealthy foods. An important focus is reducing consumption of excessive sugar. Krieger is also Clinical Professor of Medicine and Health Services at University of Washington.

Marlene Schwartz, PhD, Director for the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity and Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Connecticut. The Rudd Center is a multi-disciplinary policy research center dedicated to providing high-level expertise and guidance on obesity prevention and food related policy.

Moderated by Nicholas Freudenberg, Distinguished Professor of Public Health at Hunter College and the CUNY School of Public Health and Director of the NYC Food Policy Center at Hunter College.

In 2012, the ten major food companies spent about $7 billion advertising mostly unhealthy food. Each year, the food and beverage industries spend about $2 billion marketing to children and adolescents, again mostly unhealthy products. In addition, in the last decade, food companies have spent billions to defeat or weaken public health measures to improve nutrition. How can health professionals and food advocates respond to these practices? What strategies have proved effective in countering the harmful effects of the food and beverage industry’s business and political practices?

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Programming begins promptly at 9:00am – arrive at 8:45 for coffee and open networking.

*Note new location, CUNY Graduate Center: 365 Fifth Avenue @ 34th Street, New York, NY 10016, Room C201/202/203, C Level