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In addition to mortgage rescues, banking bailouts and health care reform, some people would like to know what President-elect Barack Obama intends to do about the nation's growing girth.
Not to worry. A think tank called the Public Health Advocacy Institute, housed at Northeastern University's School of Law, sent a list of nearly 50 obesity-related legal and policy recommendations to Obama's Health and Human Services transition team this week.
Among the group's recommendations:
• Issue an executive order demanding that all executive-branch agencies consider the effect of major federal legislation on the obesity epidemic, similar to the Environmental Justice Executive Order of 1994.
• Impose federal taxes, both sales and excise, on purchases of unhealthy foods and beverages and earmark the revenue for obesity programs.
• Prohibit and remove all commercial promotion of food in schools and educational settings receiving federal funds.
• Provide funding through the 2009 reauthorization of the federal Child Nutrition Bill to establish a garden at every school.
• Establish strict federal regulations limiting food and beverage advertising to children, including on the Internet.
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