Full citation: Roberto CA, Sysko R, Bush J, et al. Clinical correlates of the weight bias internalization scale in a sample of obese adolescents seeking bariatric surgery. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2012;20(3):533-539. https://doi.org/10.1038/oby.2011.123
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Full citation: O’Connell ML, Henderson KE, Luedicke J, Schwartz MB. Repeated exposure in a natural setting: a preschool intervention to increase vegetable consumption. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2012;112(2):230-234. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jada.2011.10.003
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Full citation: Harris JL, Graff SK. Protecting young people from junk food advertising: implications of psychological research for First Amendment law. Am J Public Health. 2012;102(2):214-222. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2011.300328
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Full citation: Harris JL, Speers SE, Schwartz MB, Brownell KD. US Food Company Branded Advergames on the Internet: Children’s exposure and effects on snack consumption. Journal of Children and Media. 2012;6(1):51-68. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2011.633405
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The Rudd Center has produced an educational video to educate healthcare providers about weight bias. Research evidence suggests that using this video as an educational intervention may be effective in helping to reduce stigmatizing attitudes among students and future healthcare professionals.
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Despite food company pledges to reduce marketing of unhealthy products to children, a Rudd Center study finds that children are disproportionately targeted by food company websites using branded computer games, known as advergames. Researchers also found that playing these games increases children’s consumption of junk food. The study is published online in the Journal of Children and Media.
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In the first study to examine cereal-buying patterns in homes in the United States, researchers at the Rudd Center found that African-American and Hispanic families are most likely to buy cereals that are advertised directly to children, which are also the least nutritious cereals. The study appears online in the journal Public Health Nutrition.
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The objective of this pilot project was to evaluate the feasibility of a research partnership in which teachers collaborated with nutrition researchers to design a research project to promote fruit and vegetable consumption in preschool children. Researchers collected data on teachers’ perceptions of preschool nutrition through interviews, focus groups, and observations.
The study found that teachers were engaged in research and the research–teacher partnership, but were uncomfortable with the use of a control group, making formal evaluation of their quasi-experiments difficult. Preschool teachers can be agents of change for improving young children’s nutrition, and engaging teachers through teacher-driven research projects may hold promise. Future collaborations should carefully consider preschool teachers’ possible discomfort with disrupting children’s routines.
Full citation: Kenney EL, Henderson KE, Humphries D, Schwartz MB. Practice-Based Research To Engage Teachers and Improve Nutrition in the Preschool Setting. Childhood Obesity. 2011;7(6):475-479. https://doi.org/10.1089/chi.2011.0028
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The objective of this study was to describe ready-to-eat (RTE) cereal purchases in 2008 in the USA according to cereal nutritional quality, marketing strategy, and household sociodemographic characteristics.
Purchases of RTE cereals were highest in households with one or more child and lowest in African-American and Asian households, as well as those earning <$US 30 000 per annum. The lowest-quality products were purchased by four times as many households as the highest-quality cereals, but loyalty to these products was lower. Purchases of cereals by households with children and in African-American and Hispanic households increased as cereal nutritional quality declined. Compared with non-advertised products, advertised child-targeted cereals were purchased thirteen times more frequently; family-targeted brand purchases were ten times higher; and adult-targeted cereals were purchased four times more frequently. These findings suggest that improving the nutritional quality of RTE cereals with advertising targeted to children could also lead to increased consumption of healthier products by young people.
Full citation: Castetbon K, Harris JL, Schwartz MB. Purchases of ready-to-eat cereals vary across US household sociodemographic categories according to nutritional value and advertising targets. Public Health Nutr. 2012;15(8):1456-1465. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980011003065
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A 65-item measure was created to evaluate five areas of child-care center policies: nutrition education, nutrition standards for foods and beverages, promoting healthy eating in the child-care setting, physical activity, and communication and evaluation. The total scale and each subscale were scored on comprehensiveness and strength. Analyses were conducted on 94 independent policies from Connecticut child-care centers participating in the Child and Adult Care Food Program.
The study concluded that this instrument provides a standardized method to analyze and compare the comprehensiveness and strength of written nutrition and physical activity policies in child-care centers.
Full citation: Falbe J, Kenney EL, Henderson KE, Schwartz MB. The Wellness Child Care Assessment Tool: a measure to assess the quality of written nutrition and physical activity policies. J Am Diet Assoc. 2011;111(12):1852-1860. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jada.2011.09.006