Researchers from Center for Food and Nutrition Policy discuss obesity and national policy

Multiple nutritional, behavioral, and genetic factors associated with obesity, and the role that national policy can play in helping combat the obesity problem facing our population, will be examined by Maureen Storey, director of Center for Food and Nutrition Policy (CFNP) at Virginia Tech and Richard Forshee, associate director of CFNP and director of research, during a session at the American Public Health Association's (APHA) 132nd Annual Meeting & Exposition from 12:30 to 2 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 9, at the Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place, N.W.