Top Policy Groups Take Action To Create Healthy Communities, Prevent Childhood Obesity

If they are the "top policy groups" and they are just now "tak(ing) action," then what have they been doing all along?

"Eleven of the nation's most prominent policy-maker groups have endorsed a host of comprehensive policy strategies and environmental changes to create healthier communities and help reverse the childhood obesity epidemic. Their support will be announced next week at the second Childhood Obesity Prevention Summit hosted by Leadership for Healthy Communities.

More than 200 elected and appointed officials and other leaders will attend the biennial summit, which will take place May 7-8 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington. Representing states, schools and localities nationwide, they will focus on policy options that advance healthy eating and increased physical activity.

'The need for action is clear,' the organizations declare in an unequivocal joint statement. Signed by each group's executive director, it concludes, 'When policy leaders unite for a common purpose, it enables communities to tap into a larger network of social and financial resources. Together, they can support healthy schools, healthy communities and healthy children.'"

Not quite.

When these "policy leaders unite for a common purpose," it will only cause a more spectacular crash and burn.