Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS

Amount

$496,842.00

Award Date

9/29/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

It is becoming increasingly evident that prevention of child obesity must begin very early in life, as the prevalence of child overweight in the U.S. in the past 20 years has increased even in the youngest age groups. One of the key risk factors for later