One of the things I did when I brought everybody together was share with them a background paper that I put together, which I would be very happy to share with the committee. It looked at research literature supporting why it is we would like to integrate both of these approaches up until a certain age group. We know from the literature that there are risk factors and protective factors common to both eating disorders and obesity. We have had some prevention research be successful in modifying those risk factors and boosting those protective factors, but they've been supported by funding in the eating disorder literature and have yet to be crossed over to the area of obesity prevention.
On February 10th, 2014. See this statement in context.