Ingredient challenges: Seeking Solutions to Obesity
Such were the provocative insights that provided some of the highlights to “Obesity: Understanding Issues, Seeking Solutions,” a Saint Joseph's University (Philadelphia) Erivan K. Haub School of Business national conference held June 4, 2004. There, a panel of industry experts addressed recent findings on the causes of childhood obesity, food industry challenges, litigation, consumer and industry perspectives and, most importantly, solutions.
“What's different is that women left the home and went to work--there's been a change in home and family meal patterns,” asserted Ed Slaughter, director, advertising and trends research, Rodale Inc. (Emmaus, Pa.), as he presented findings from new, unpublished telephone interviews of 700 nationally sampled parents and 372 kids aged ten to 17. The survey was conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates (with offices in Washington and Princeton, N.J.) earlier this year.