THE TIME/ABC NEWS
SUMMIT ON OBESITY
JUNE 2 - 4, 2004
Presentations from the Summit are now available online. View them on the agenda page or on the bio page.
Click here to read TIME's cover package on America's Obesity Crisis.
Obesity has become an epidemica health and economic burden America cannot sustain. To elevate the dialogue, TIME and ABC News are drawing together leaders across sectors and disciplinesmedicine and science, government, education, business, academia, media and entertainmentto advance knowledge and focus attention on what we can be done to turn this epidemic around.
As we look to the future and where childhood obesity will be in 20 years... it is every bit as threatening to us as is the terrorist threat we face today. It is the threat from within.
- Vice Admiral Richard Carmona
U.S. Surgeon General
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| THE SPEAKERS |
| The summit featured dozens of distinguished speakers, including: |
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Andrew Weil, M.D., Director, Program in Integrative Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Arizona |
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Ann M. Fudge, Chairman and CEO, Young & Rubicam Brands |
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Kelly D. Brownell, Ph.D., Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders |
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Lynn C. Swann, Chairman, President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports |
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Mike Huckabee, Governor of Arkansas |
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Vice Admiral Richard H. Carmona, M.D., Surgeon General, USA |
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T. Berry Brazelton, M.D., Children's Hospital, Boston |
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