UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health

Full citation: Panza GA, Puhl RM, Taylor BA, Zaleski AL, Livingston J, Pescatello LS. Links between discrimination and cardiovascular health among socially stigmatized groups: A systematic review. PLoS One. 2019;14(6):e0217623. Published 2019 Jun 10. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0217623

Full citation: Himmelstein MS, Puhl RM, Watson RJ. Weight-based victimization, eating behaviors, and weight-related health in Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescents. Appetite. 2019;141:104321. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2019.104321

Full citation: Miller DL, Schwartz MB, Brownell KD. Primer on US Food and Nutrition Policy and Public Health: Food Sustainability. Am J Public Health. 2019;109(7):986-988. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2019.305071

This video provides a brief tutorial on how to find your school district’s wellness policy, which is a written document of official policies that guide a school district’s efforts to establish a school environment that promotes students’ health, well-being, and ability to learn by supporting healthy eating and physical activity. Any school that participates in USDA child nutrition programs must have a wellness policy on file.

Full citation: Pudney EV, Himmelstein MS, Puhl RM. The role of weight stigma in parental weight talk. Pediatr Obes. 2019;14(10):e12534. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijpo.12534

A report released in January of 2019 highlights increasing disparities in unhealthy food advertising targeted to Hispanic and Black youth. Join the report’s authors to hear how food and beverage companies continue to advertise their least healthy products, including candy, fast food, sugary drinks and snacks, to youth in communities of color, and learn what can be done to encourage food and beverage manufacturers, restaurants, grocery retailers, and media companies to improve their targeted marketing practices.

Full citation: McKee SL, Cooksey-Stowers K, St Louis R, Schwartz MB. Understanding the process of implementing nutrition and physical activity policies in a large national child care organization: a mixed-methods study. Transl Behav Med. 2020;10(3):801-811. https://doi.org/10.1093/tbm/ibz045

Full citation: Harris J, Frazier W, Fleming-Milici F, et al. A qualitative assessment of US Black and Latino adolescents’ attitudes about targeted marketing of unhealthy food and beverages. Journal of Children and Media. 2019;13(3):295-316. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2019.1604394

Nearly 40 million Americans face hunger, and many rely on the food banking system to supplement the groceries needed to feed themselves and their families. Consequently, it is essential to maximize the nutritional quality of food available through food pantries. At the same time, it is also important to encourage food pantry clients to select these healthier options. 

This study, published in Public Health Nutrition, introduced meal kits in food pantries to see whether this encouraged selections of nutrient dense foods, and it found that cllients were three times as likely to take kale and whole grains when meal kits were offered. 

Full citation: Stein EC, Stowers KC, McCabe ML, White MA, Schwartz MB. Ingredient bundles and recipe tastings in food pantries: a pilot study to increase the selection of healthy foods [published correction appears in Public Health Nutr. 2019 Jun;22(9):1723]. Public Health Nutr. 2019;22(9):1717-1722. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980019000259