Childhood Obesity–Can Faith-Based Organizations Make a Difference?

Faith-based Advocacy to End Childhood Obesity By Rev. Michael O. Minor, EdD, National Director, of H.O.P.E and the NBCUSA Health and Human Services Partnership. Dr. Minor's "article discusses the development of a national evidence-based paradigm to support the assertion that faith-based advocacy is effective in ending childhood obesity. Three central questions will frame this discussion: Does the work of faith-based organizations make a difference in the war against childhood obesity? If so, how can evidence-based research be used to prove it? Is this “difference” sustainable, resulting in permanent lifestyle changes?... "There is every hope that the H.O.P.E. research efforts will support what the anecdotal evidence has shown—faith community efforts make a difference in the war against childhood obesity. …Read More