Full citation: Puhl RM, Suh Y, Li X. Improving anti-bullying laws and policies to protect youth from weight-based victimization: parental support for action. Pediatr Obes. 2017;12(2):e14-e19. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijpo.12129
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Full citation: Ferrante JM, Seaman K, Bator A, et al. Impact of Perceived Weight Stigma among Underserved Women on Doctor-Patient Relationships. Obes Sci Pract. 2016;2(2):128-135. https://doi.org/10.1002/osp4.40
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Middle school students who eat breakfast at school – even if they have already had breakfast at home – are less likely to be overweight or obese than students who skip breakfast, according to a new study by the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at the University of Connecticut and the Community Alliance for Research and Engagement (CARE) at Yale School of Public Health.
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Full citation: Wang S, Schwartz MB, Shebl FM, Read M, Henderson KE, Ickovics JR. School breakfast and body mass index: a longitudinal observational study of middle school students. Pediatr Obes. 2017;12(3):213-220. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijpo.12127
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Full citation: Puhl RM, Phelan SM, Nadglowski J, Kyle TK. Overcoming Weight Bias in the Management of Patients With Diabetes and Obesity. Clin Diabetes. 2016;34(1):44-50. https://doi.org/10.2337/diaclin.34.1.44
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Government policies and laws against weight discrimination have broard public support in four nations where this form of bias is prevalent, according to a new multinational study by the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at the University of Connecticut. The findings of the study, published in The Milbank Quarterly, suggest that a key condition needed to foster policy change – strong public support – is present in the United States and three other countries surveyed.
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Full citation: Puhl RM, Latner JD, O’Brien KS, Luedicke J, Danielsdottir S, Salas XR. Potential Policies and Laws to Prohibit Weight Discrimination: Public Views from 4 Countries. Milbank Q. 2015;93(4):691-731. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0009.12162
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Companies target unhealthy snack food advertising directly to black and Hispanic youth, and disparities in exposure compared with white nonHispanic youth have increased. Given that youth of color suffer from higher rates of obesity and other diet-related diseases, snack food advertising likely exacerbates health disparities affecting their communities. Snack FACTS examines the nutritional quality and advertising for 90 snack food brands offered by 43 companies that were marketed to U.S. children and teens on TV, internet, and in schools in 2014. This summary addresses food marketing in schools as it pertains to our Snack FACTS report.
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Companies target unhealthy snack food advertising directly to black and Hispanic youth, and disparities in exposure compared with white nonHispanic youth have increased. Given that youth of color suffer from higher rates of obesity and other diet-related diseases, snack food advertising likely exacerbates health disparities affecting their communities. Snack FACTS examines the nutritional quality and advertising for 90 snack food brands offered by 43 companies that were marketed to U.S. children and teens on TV, internet, and in schools in 2014. This summary addresses CFBAI company pledges as they pertain to our Snack FACTS report.
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Editor-in-Chief Linda Snetselaar, PhD, RDN, LD, FAND, interviews Marlene B. Schwartz, PhD, director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity and professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Connecticut. Schwartz discusses issues and challenges within the school lunch environment, how school lunches have changed over time, plate waste, strategies to make school lunches healthier, and future policy changes that could have a positive effect on school lunches.