2013-04-25T19:20:23Z Copyright (c) 2013, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/topics/childhood-obesity.html http://www.rand.org/health/feature/food-environment-obesity/jcr:content/par/teaser_0.html Apr 23, 2012 Apr 23, 2012

Roland Sturm's work analyzing the food environment in California and across the U.S. has been cited in a recent article in the <em>New York Times</em>, which focuses on the effects of "food deserts" in poorer neighborhoods.

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2011/04/21/PSR.html Apr 21, 2011 Apr 21, 2011

In terms of healthcare use and chronic health conditions, obesity is comparable to aging 20 years, with the health of a 30 year old resembling that of a 50 year old, writes Roland Sturm.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20010041.html Jan 1, 2001 Jan 1, 2001

<p>Policies designed to alter diet composition are likely to address the nutrition problems of American youths more effectively than policies (such as food stamps) that merely seek to increase the quantity of good consumed.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20011209.html Jan 1, 2001 Jan 1, 2001

<p>Since the 1950s, health experts have been warning Americans to lose weight and telling them how: by eating less and exercising more. Over that time, obesity rates tripled. History has shown that in dealing with epidemics of all sorts, ultimately collective, not individual, action radically improves public health.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20031112.html Jan 1, 2003 Jan 1, 2003

<p>Recent litigation brought by a group of overweight children against the McDonald's Corporation that seeks compensation for obesity-related health problems has provoked an intense public response.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20040109.html Jan 1, 2004 Jan 1, 2004

<p>To examine the association between children's overweight status in kindergarten and their academic achievement in kindergarten and first grade.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20040411.html Jan 1, 2004 Jan 1, 2004

<p>The authors examined the association of adolescent obesity with participation in sports among 5489 low-income, inner city public high school students.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20040803.html Jan 1, 2004 Jan 1, 2004

<p>To determine if there is a relationship between overweight and behavior problems among children as young as 5 years old by studying the association between overweight and behavioral health at entry into kindergarten and to determine whether overweight status is a risk factor for the onset of new behavior problems during the first 2 years in school.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20050103.html Jan 1, 2005 Jan 1, 2005

<p>The number of overweight and obese youth has increased in recent decades, and numerous theories on causes have been proposed.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20050406.html Jan 1, 2005 Jan 1, 2005

<p>The number of overweight and obese youth has increased in recent decades, yet few data assess how the lives of children have changed during the obesity epidemic.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20060201.html Jan 1, 2006 Jan 1, 2006

<p>Social determinants have been identified as a fundamental cause of health and disease in most industrialized countries.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20070211.html Dec 5, 2006 Dec 5, 2006

The good health habits of adolescent Asian immigrants improve with each generation born in the United States, but health habits among adolescent Latino immigrants generally remain poor or become worse in succeeding generations.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20070515.html Jan 1, 2007 Jan 1, 2007

<p>Raising the profile of existing facilities may help increase physical activity among adolescent girls.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20070517.html May 1, 2007 May 1, 2007

<p>Assess the accessibility and suitability of schools as recreational sites and to determine whether they are associated with young adolescent girls' weekend metabolic equivalent-weighted moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and body mass index (BMI).</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20070809.html Aug 1, 2007 Aug 1, 2007

<p>The findings suggest that commercial PA facilities are important contributors to the accumulation of PA among adolescent girls.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20080012.html Jan 1, 2008 Jan 1, 2008

This case study examines the Government's decision in 2005 to establish new nutritional standards for school meals.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20080207.html Jan 1, 2008 Jan 1, 2008

<p>A literature review from three major databases reveals that obesity rates for Latino male children and adolescents are higher than for other major gender-ethnic groups. Obese Latino male youth are also prone to obesity-related morbidities.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20081107.html Nov 1, 2008 Nov 1, 2008

<p>Childhood overweight has increased rapidly over the last two decades. Energy-dense foods are cheaper per calorie, which could be a partial explanation for why the highest rates of obesity are observed among groups of limited economic means.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20090018.html Oct 1, 2009 Oct 1, 2009

<p>Using a community-based participatory research approach, we explored adolescent, parent, and community stakeholder perspectives on barriers to healthy eating and physical activity, and intervention ideas to address adolescent obesity.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20090203.html Jan 1, 2009 Jan 1, 2009

<p>The authors investigated the association between physical and social neighborhood environments and fifth-grade students' physical activity and obesity.</p>