Welcome to Preventing Childhood Obesity

Welcome to Preventing Childhood Obesity: An Ecological Approach. This course has been developed by faculty in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University.

In this course, you'll be taking an online journey with other nutrition and health professionals that will help prepare you to better address this critical nutrition issue in your community. We've done our best to make this course stimulating and relevant to your practice.

You'll find a list of the specific learning objectives for each section on the first page of that section and a review of those objectives on the section wrap-up page.

You'll also find a list of the activities to be accomplished for each section on the first page of that section and a list of specific activities on each page.

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