{"id":6340,"date":"2012-05-08T17:11:48","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T03:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=6340"},"modified":"2021-04-16T13:17:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T23:17:06","slug":"president-greenwood-helps-lead-national-effort-to-prevent-obesity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2012\/05\/08\/president-greenwood-helps-lead-national-effort-to-prevent-obesity\/","title":{"rendered":"President Greenwood helps lead national effort to prevent obesity"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_6349\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6349\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/dc.jpg\" alt=\"President Greenwood at table\" width=\"620\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/dc.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/dc-260x167.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6349\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President M.R.C. Greenwood at the Institute of Medicine&#8217;s obesity prevention report press conference on May 8<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>President <strong>M.R.C. Greenwood<\/strong> was in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, May 8 for the release of the Institute of Medicine&#8217;s obesity prevention report, which urges the country to accelerate efforts to reduce obesity.<\/p>\n<p>The report was released at a conference for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On May 8, President Greenwood will also appear on the <em>NBC Nightly News<\/em> with Brian Williams on KHNL, Cable Channel 8 and on PBS&#8217;s <em>NewsHour<\/em>, on <abbr>PBS<\/abbr> <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>, Cable Channel 10.<\/p>\n<p>Other media coverage of the IoM report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><abbr>USA<\/abbr> Today<\/em>, May 8, 2012: &ldquo;Multiple strategies needed to fight obesity, study suggests&rdquo;<\/li>\n<li><em>Big Island Video News<\/em>, May 8, 2012: &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigislandvideonews.com\/2012\/05\/08\/hawaiis-role-in-solving-the-weight-of-the-nation\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>&#8217;s role in solving the &#8217;Weight of the Nation&#8217;<\/a>&rdquo;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President M.R.C. Greenwood in Washington, D.C. for release of the Institute of Medicine&#8217;s obesity prevention report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,24],"tags":[947],"class_list":["post-6340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","category-uh-in-the-news","tag-uh-system","entry","no-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6340"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139598,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6340\/revisions\/139598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}