Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST

Location:
NAS Auditorium
The National Academy of Sciences Building
2100 C Street, NW
Washington, DC

The Institute of Medicine of the National Academies is releasing a report at a public briefing on Tuesday, December 6 at 11:00 am at the NAS Auditorium. The report, Food Marketing to Children and Youth: Threat or Opportunity? explores the influence of food and beverage marketing on the diets and diet-related health of U.S. children and youth. The briefing will include the committee's recommendations for how various stakeholders can promote healthful foods and beverages to children and youth. This study is the most comprehensive review of the scientific evidence to date and was funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in response to a congressional directive.  

If you plan to attend the public briefing at the NAS Auditorium, please RSVP to Victoria Kirker at vkirker@spectrumscience.com.

The report briefing will be available through a live audio webcast that will begin at 11:00 am EST on December 6th.  The link to the webcast will be available from http://national-academies.org. Listeners may submit questions using an e-mail form also available at http://national-academies.org.

Audio access to the webcast requires RealPlayer which is available free at http://www.real.com/player. 

The committee members participating in the report release briefing are:

J. MICHAEL MCGINNIS (Chair), Senior Scholar, Institute of Medicine, The National Academies, Washington, DC

DAVID BRITT, Sesame Workshop (emeritus), Amelia Island, FL

AIMEE DORR, Professor of Education, Dean, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California at Los Angeles

MARY STORY, Professor, Division of Epidemiology, Associate Dean of Academic & Student Affairs, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

ELLEN A. WARTELLA, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA