The Center for Mississippi Health Policy reported that obesity and overweight rates for all students in all grades have leveled off, with a significant 13 percent drop from 2005 to 2011 in obesity and overweight among elementary school children in Mississippi.
The nation's largest healthcare foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, singled out the Community Foundation's "Healthy Kid; Healthy Communities" program at a national meeting for its effectiveness in reducing childhood obesity in Northwest Mississippi.
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Ganesh Natarajan is the Founder and Chairman of 5FWorld, a new platform for funding and developing start-ups, social enterprises and the skills eco-system in India. In the past two decades, he has built two of India’s high-growth software services companies – Aptech and Zensar – almost from scratch to global success.