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Cover. Children exercise in August 2003 during the Kid Power KC Summer Challenge, a program to reduce childhood obesity in Kansas City, Mo. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data indicates that currently about 11% of US children and adolescents are obese. An additional 14% of youths have a body mass index between the 85th and 95th percentiles and are at risk for becoming obese. This issue of the Journal profiles a number of public health interventions aimed at reducing obesity, such as FitWIC, the ambitious, multi-state childhood obesity prevention project designed by the US Department of Agriculture for implementation by state and local Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) agencies. Given that, nationally, one in three new mothers participates in WIC, the program has broad access to the population of young low-income children at greatest risk for obesity. Information on obesity prevention tools, resources, and recommendations from the FitWIC program may be found on the WIC program Web site (at: http://www.nal.usda.gov/wicworks/index.html).

Photo courtesy of AP Photo/Charlie Riedel. Cover concept and selection by Aleisha Kropf and Robert Sember.

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