UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health

A federal excise tax of a penny-per-ounce on sugar-sweetened beverages would generate over thirteen billion dollars in revenue per year, according to an estimate derived by researchers at the Rudd Center. In collaboration with researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago, researchers at the Rudd Center have updated the Center’s Revenue Calculator for Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes, an online tool which offers estimates of revenue from taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages.

Exposure to weight stigma causes physiological stress in both overweight and lean women, according to a study by researchers at the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity. The study is published online in Psychosomatic Medicine.

Full citation: Ickovics JR, Carroll-Scott A, Peters SM, Schwartz M, Gilstad-Hayden K, McCaslin C. Health and academic achievement: cumulative effects of health assets on standardized test scores among urban youth in the United States. J Sch Health. 2014;84(1):40-48. https://doi.org/10.1111/josh.12117

Full citation: Schvey NA, Puhl RM, Brownell KD. The stress of stigma: exploring the effect of weight stigma on cortisol reactivity. Psychosom Med. 2014;76(2):156-162. https://doi.org/10.1097/PSY.0000000000000031

Full citation: Harris JL, Fox T. Food and beverage marketing in schools: putting student health at the head of the class. JAMA Pediatr. 2014;168(3):206-208. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2013.5003

Full citation: Pearl RL, Puhl RM. Measuring internalized weight attitudes across body weight categories: validation of the modified weight bias internalization scale. Body Image. 2014;11(1):89-92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2013.09.005

Parents, both with and without overweight children, are concerned about Weight Bullying and are in favor of a range of policy initiatives to address the issue, according to two new studies published this month by researchers at the Yale Rudd Center.

The Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity will become part of the university’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS), Yale’s premier center for the study and shaping of public policy and training of future policy leaders, it was announced. The Rudd Center is a distinguished program that researches and provides high-level guidance for obesity- and food-related policy.

Full citation: Katz DL, Fox T, Kaufman FR, Schwartz MB, Wootan MG. Policy and system changes in marketing foods to children. Child Obes. 2013;9(6):477-483. https://doi.org/10.1089/chi.2013.9605