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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Health, Health Support
Mission: Combating overweight and obesity in utah and beyond
Programs: Implementation of utah nutrition and physical activity plan 2010-2020: the utah partnership for healthy weight (uphw) recruits and supports institutional partners to help implement the utah nutrition and physical activity plan, and convenes periodic meetings to facilitate implementation. All utah residents benefit.
education and advocacy: the uphw informs utah policymakers and others about the human and economic costs of overweight and obesity, and facilitates reasoned consideration of state public policy options. All utah residents benefit.
research: the research committee of the uphw developed a comprehensive intervention and research project focused on preventing and combating child and adolescent obesity in a single utah community. Begun in 2009, it is benefiting roughly 40,000 utah non-adult and adult residents.
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