New Campaign Aims to Improve Troops, Families Health

Published Feb. 12, 2012
By TRICARE Communications

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9, 2012 -- The Defense Department has launched a "groundbreaking" obesity and nutrition awareness campaign aimed at improving the health and well-being of troops, retirees and their families across the services, DOD's top health affairs official announced today.

Dr. Jonathan Woodson, assistant secretary of defense for health affairs and TRICARE Management Activity director, joined First Lady Michelle Obama at Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark., this afternoon to unveil the campaign, which involves improving nutrition standards militarywide for the first time in 20 years.

Read more at http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=67129.

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