FIGURE 1—

Obesity prevalence among New York City children aged two to four years enrolled in Women, Infants, and Children and children aged five to 14 years enrolled in public school with timeline of selected policy changes.

Note. Obesity is defined as body mass index at or above the 95th percentile. Data for two- to four-year-old children are from New York State Pediatric Nutrition Surveillance Data (Personal communication, Lynn Edmunds, New York State Department of Health), and data for five- to 14-year-old children are from the New York City Department of Education.²