This is all you need to know about the "study."
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation led the charge in demonizing smokers (to sell their "smoking cessation" drugs), so now they're moving on to the demonization of the next group.
Of course, the definition of "obesity" has been changed to include a larger number of people, which is often lost in the anti-obesity Jihad.
Well, can't say we skinny smokers didn't warn everyone of the inevitable.
At least it's not called the "Peter Wood Johnson Foundation" - that would simply be too much.
When he was sixteen, his father died, leaving him an estate of $2,000,000. At the time Johnson’s father died, he was attending Rutgers Prep. Johnson dropped-out of Rutgers Prep after only a few months and starting working full-time at J&J.
However, while in Washington Johnson made many adversaries and was forced to resign, in 1943. Johnson told newspapers that he was too ill to continue.
His son, Robert Wood Johnson III, was the president of Johnson & Johnson from 1963 to 1965. In 1964 there was a falling out, and Robert Wood Johnson II, as chairman, fired his son.
Robert Wood Johnson II died on January 30, 1968, and left the bulk of his $400,000,000 estate to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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Robert Wood Johnson II built a small, but innovative, family firm of Johnson & Johnson into the world’s largest health products maker.
Over the course of his 74 years,Johnson would also be a politician, writer, sailor, pilot, promoter of alcohol abstinence, activist and philanthropist.
Currently, the Foundation is led by Dr.Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, who was selected to serve as president and CEO in December 2002. Prior to Lavizzo-Mourey’s tenure, Dr. Steve Schroeder served as the Foundation’s president from 1990 - 2002. Under the leadership of Dr. Steve Schroeder, the foundation played a major role in curbing tobacco use in the US, spending $446 million from 1991 to 2003 toward that goal, and it plans to use those experiences to shape its attack on childhood obesity.
Childhood Obesity: Reversing the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015 by improving access to affordable healthy foods and increasing opportunities for physical activity in schools and communities across the United States.
In April 2007, the foundation committed $500 million to reversing the childhood obesity epidemic. The President and CEO is personally committed to reversing this epidemic by 2015
Health Insurance Coverage: Ensuring that everyone in America has stable, affordable health care coverage through the development of policies and programs to expand health coverage and maximize enrollment in existing coverage programs.
Public Health: Strengthening the practice of public health and the implementation of policies to ensure the system can fulfill its vital role in protecting the safety and health of all Americans.
Vulnerable Populations: Supporting promising new ideas that address health and health care problems that intersect with social factors—housing, poverty and inadequate education—and affect society’s most vulnerable people, including low-income children and their families, frail older adults, adults with disabilities, the homeless, those with HIV/AIDS, and those with severe mental illness.
Criticism
Despite the Foundation’s statements to the contrary, some critics[7][8] have labeled RWJF as anti-alcohol or neo-prohibitionist. This is likely due to their stance on several alcohol-related issues (e.g. alcohol restriction laws, legal drinking age, alcohol taxation, roadblocks, etc.), their funding of certain alcohol-related studies, and the fact that they are a significant funding source for groups such as MADD (itself often accused of neo-probibitionism lately) and many others who share their views on alcohol issues[9] However, the American Beverage Institute and DISCUS (some of the biggest critics) can both be said to have vested interests as well.
