Despite some major advances in food policy—notably an overhaul of the federal school lunch program and a national rule requiring chain restaurants to post calorie counts on menus—the Obama administration has dropped or delayed critical measures to combat childhood obesity. With other priorities crowding the president’s second-term agenda, health advocates fear that food and nutrition issues may be sidelined yet again. But with focus and resolve, this administration could still reverse the obesity pandemic. The article examines three initiatives that stalled during the first term, and assesses the prospects for reviving them during the second.
