Last month, the VT Department of Health & other community partners hosted a FREE showing of the HBO award winning film: THE WEIGHT OF THE NATION. The Part shown featuring case studies and interviews with leading experts and with individuals and families struggling with obesity and illustrated some of the forces at hand working against us in our society. The entire series spotlights the facts and myths of this urgent public health issue, showing how obesity affects the health of the nation and cripples the health care system – and what individuals and communities can do.

We invite you all to join us for another FREE showing of the Weight of the Nation, Part II. We will be hosting the film at the Newport State Building on Saturday November 16th at 10am in Conference room #250 on the second floor. Following the movie, we will again host an informal community driven discussion about our community and we hope to engage you all in this discussion. We will again have childcare available and will be giving away FREE MyPlates to children & their families.

We hope you join us to learn more about this pressing health issue, and how you can help support our efforts to combat obesity in our own community.

THE WEIGHT OF THE NATION is a presentation of HBO and the Institute of Medicine (IOM), in association with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and in partnership with the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation and Kaiser Permanente.