Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation

Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation Introduced

October 5, 2009

WASHINGTON - A food and beverage industry coalition formed to battle obesity is set to launch here this morning.

Called the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation, its objective is to reduce obesity, especially in children aged 6 to 11, by 2015.

The foundation is made up of 40 companies including retailers like United Supermarkets, manufacturers including Kellogg Co. and PepsiCo, non-profit organizations and trade associations. Members have committed $20 million to the effort.

It will promote ways to help people achieve a healthy weight through energy balance, while focusing on the marketplace, the workplace and schools.

The foundation will partner with organizations like the American Council for Fitness and Nutrition Foundation, the American Dietetic Association Foundation and Girl Scouts of the USA.

Media & Press Contact

Emily Cullum
Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation
1350 I Street N.W., Suite 300
Washington, D.C. 20005
Office: (202) 295-2316
[email protected]

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thought leaders

I know that a number of you… have come together to create the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation to help address the issue of childhood obesity. So there are so many good examples, wonderful examples, of folks beginning to move in the right direction. It’s very exciting.

Excerpt from First Lady Michelle Obama’s remarks at the GMA Science Forum

I look to the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation as a resource to teach children these basics of healthy living—calories in and calories out—and inspire them to live in this balanced way.

Shannon Miller, Gymnast
Olympic Gold Medal Winner

I’m excited about working with the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation to help motivate and educate young people and their families on the importance of living a healthy lifestyle. It’s great to collaborate efforts so we can work as a team to impact the issues surrounding the childhood obesity epidemic and inspire kids to be active, eat healthy, and make healthy lifestyle choices.

Paul Pierce, Captain of the Boston Celtics

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