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 epidemic—a health and economic burden America cannot sustain. To elevate the dialogue, TIME and ABC News are drawing together leaders across sectors and disciplines—medicine and science, government, education, business, academia, media and entertainment—to 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






THE SPEAKERS
The summit featured dozens of distinguished speakers, including:
Andrew Weil, M.D., Director, Program in Integrative Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Arizona
Ann M. Fudge, Chairman and CEO, Young & Rubicam Brands
Kelly D. Brownell, Ph.D., Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders
Lynn C. Swann, Chairman, President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports
Mike Huckabee, Governor of Arkansas
Vice Admiral Richard H. Carmona, M.D., Surgeon General, USA
T. Berry Brazelton, M.D., Children's Hospital, Boston



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