By Jane Clifford
Union-Tribune Family Editor
September 22, 2007
Childhood obesity is not a problem San Diego families can fight on their own.
“We need to improve the environments where children spend most of their day,” Jack O'Connell, California State Superintendent of Public Instruction, said this week in a video address to hundreds gathered at the Town and Country Resort and Convention Center in Mission Valley.
To that end, representatives from the business sector, schools, child-care centers, health care, government and churches turned out for the San Diego County Childhood Obesity Summit. More than 650 people filled the meeting room to hear about what's working to prevent what is considered an epidemic of overweight and obese children.