Residents of one Maryland county bought fewer sugary drinks after a campaign to reduce the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages that included policy changes and public health outreach efforts, according to a new study from the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at the University of Connecticut.
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Jennifer Harris
Tatiana Andreyeva
Full citation: Schwartz MB, Just DR, Chriqui JF, Ammerman AS. Appetite self-regulation: Environmental and policy influences on eating behaviors. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2017;25 Suppl 1:S26-S38. https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.21770
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Full citation: Puhl RM, Quinn DM, Weisz BM, Suh YJ. The Role of Stigma in Weight Loss Maintenance Among U.S. Adults. Ann Behav Med. 2017;51(5):754-763. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12160-017-9898-9
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Full citation: Schwartz MB, Schneider GE, Choi YY, et al. Association of a Community Campaign for Better Beverage Choices With Beverage Purchases From Supermarkets. JAMA Intern Med. 2017;177(5):666-674. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.9650
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Jennifer Harris
Tatiana Andreyeva
Societal stigma of individuals with overweight and obesity is well established, but few remedies have been implemented to address this problem. Women with obesity who were asked their views about strategies to reduce weight stigma in our society say that interventions in the workplace, schools, and healthcare should be prioritized, according to a study by the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at the University of Connecticut.
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Full citation: Loeb KL, Radnitz C, Keller K, et al. The application of defaults to optimize parents’ health-based choices for children. Appetite. 2017;113:368-375. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2017.02.039
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Full citation: Puhl RM, Himmelstein MS, Gorin AA, Suh YJ. Missing the target: including perspectives of women with overweight and obesity to inform stigma-reduction strategies. Obes Sci Pract. 2017;3(1):25-35. https://doi.org/10.1002/osp4.101
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Full citation: Schwartz MB. Moving Beyond the Debate Over Restricting Sugary Drinks in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Am J Prev Med. 2017;52(2 Suppl 2):S199-S205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2016.09.022
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Full citation: Pearl RL, Puhl RM, Dovidio JF. Can Legislation Prohibiting Weight Discrimination Improve Psychological Well-Being? A Preliminary Investigation. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy. 2017;17(1):84-104. https://doi.org/10.1111/asap.12128
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Birth to age 2 is a critical period for establishing lifelong and healthy dietary preferences and eating habits and preventing childhood obesity. The information that parents receive about feeding their young children, including from marketing, should consistently correspond with advice from health professionals about practices that help children grow up at a healthy weight. However, baby and toddler food and drink products and the marketing messages used to promote them do not always support experts’ recommendations for feeding babies and toddlers.
In this report, we examine the nutritional quality and other characteristics of food and drink products marketed to parents for their babies and toddlers (up to age 3), as well as the messages used to promote these products, and evaluate how well they correspond to expert advice about feeding young children.
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Frances Fleming-Milici
Marlene Schwartz