Healthy Weight Commitment

Evaluation

Each of the three Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation focus areas—the marketplace, the workplace and schools—will be assessed by independent evaluators.

The National Business Group on Health will create a set of standardized metrics for the workplace that will allow us to measure our ability to: foster and maintain a healthy culture, offer the best range and type of resources and tools feasible in a particular environment, and gain significant levels of employee participation and satisfaction. Best practices will be shared with other employers so they may be replicated.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) will support an independent evaluation of HWCF activities in the marketplace. RWJF will fund an independent group of scientists to define metrics that will be used to track progress and assess the overall impact of the marketplace effort. The resulting evaluation reports will be released publicly.

The University of California, Berkeley Center for Weight and Health will evaluate the progress of the Healthy Schools Partnership in its prototype communities over a three-year period. Progress will be measured by student knowledge, attitudes and behavior regarding energy balance, impact of the program on fitness scores and BMI numbers, improved food choice behavior, and increased physical activity.

thought leaders

With manufacturers making their "Healthy Weight Commitment" and pledging to cut 1.5 trillion calories a year from their products; with Walmart promising to sell products with less sugar, salt and trans-fats, and to reduce their prices on healthy items like fresh fruits and vegetables; and with the First Lady's big drive to improve healthy eating in schools and the excellent thought of urging doctors to write out prescriptions for exercise; these are marvellous ideas that I am sure will make a major difference.

HRH Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales

I know that a number of you… have come together to create the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation to help address the issue of childhood obesity. So there are so many good examples, wonderful examples, of folks beginning to move in the right direction. It’s very exciting.

Excerpt from First Lady Michelle Obama’s remarks at the GMA Science Forum

I look to the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation as a resource to teach children these basics of healthy living—calories in and calories out—and inspire them to live in this balanced way.

Shannon Miller, Gymnast
Olympic Gold Medal Winner