News Archive: Overweight and Obesity
Approaches to fighting the global obesity epidemic — June 18, 2008
Although a multi-faceted approach that incorporates economic and public health perspectives would bear fruit, the research community has focused largely on interventions limited to promoting health food intake or increasing physical activities. Other types of intervention might be more effective, but are politically unpopular.
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Low-income women's diets are influenced by neighborhood composition Mar 6, 08
Neighborhood composition influences the dietary choices of low-income U.S. and foreign-born women.
Body Mass Index for taller people is increasing Mar 4, 08
The BMI in taller people is increasing faster than the BMI in shorter people. This may be due to the ample supply of calories available in the U.S. and is a change from past trends in BMI-height relationships.
Disability prevention should focus on chronic illnesses and obesity Feb 19, 08
Disability prevention efforts should focus on rising obesity trends and on limiting disability among the chronically ill.
Eating as an Automatic Behavior — Dec. 19, 2007
Conventional wisdom maintains that preventing obesity should be as simple as providing the right nutritional information and motivation. But a more effective approach is to decrease the accessibility, visibility and quantities of food to which people are exposed and reduce the environmental cues that promote eating.
Youth embrace "photovoice" method to identify personal health choices — Nov 1, 2007
More than a dozen participants from the UCLA/RAND Youth Advisory Board engaged in a participatory research project to identify unhealthy dietary practices and inducers of stress in their communities and to advocate for promoting positive health goals.
Fruit and vegetable intake high in new immigrant women — October 25, 2007
Postpartum immigrant women ate more fruits and vegetables than native-born women in the U.S. However, the difference diminished with time.
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