Report
An expert panel considered issues pertaining to the development, assessment, and regulation of multicomponent dietary supplements for the military to enhance performance and promote health.
Journal Article
This article carries out a secondary data analysis to determine the frequency of anemia in different categories of body mass index (BMI) and the frequency in which obesity and anemia co-occurred in children between 2 and 18 years of age.
Research Brief
Summarizes key RAND studies on the causes of obesity, its economic and health consequences, and potential strategies for prevention, including work on health care costs, junk food, food deserts, school meals, and proximity of parks.
Journal Article
This paper examines the effect of systematic self-report bias, the non-random deviation between the self-reported and true values of the same measure.
Report
Considers regulation of dietary supplement use in the military and comparable civilian organizations, policies regulating purchase of dietary supplements, and issues to be considered in crafting military policies about supplement use and education.
Journal Article
This project developed and designed Students for Nutrition and eXercise (SNaX), an intervention aimed at translating school obesity-prevention policies into practice with peer advocacy of healthy eating and school cafeteria changes.
Journal Article
Geographic variation in food prices across the US affects youth's consumption of fruit, vegetables and milk; price variation does not seem to affect consumption of fast food or soft drinks, perhaps because consumption is less price sensitive.
Journal Article
Cafeteria food in California children's hospitals gets an average rating on a nutritional scale. Cafeterias could improve by providing nutritional information, using signage to promote healthy choices, and eliminating impulse items at the register.
Journal Article
Nudging has captured the imagination of the public, researchers, and policy makers as a way of changing human behaviour, with both the UK and US governments embracing it. Theresa Marteau and colleagues ask whether the concept stands up to scientific scrutiny.
Journal Article
A low fat diet may be a cost-effective strategy for preventing breast and ovarian cancers.
Journal Article
The existing scientific literature does not adequately address questions about the safety of probiotics.
Journal Article
Reducing consumption of salty snacks, candy, cookies may be more effective than exercise in combating obesity
Journal Article
Community-based participatory research promotes community engagement in improving depression care.
News Release
Pittsburgh's Hill District neighborhood will be the focus of a RAND Corporation study that will examine how a full-service grocery store can influence the health of residents served by the store.
Journal Article
Taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages have been proposed to combat obesity.
News Release
Small sales taxes on soft drinks in the range currently in force in some states are insufficient to reduce consumption of soda or curb obesity among children.
Journal Article
This paper explores the effects of relative food prices on body weight and body fat over time in China.
Report
Evaluates the impact of elementary school policies on child health behaviors and obesity in the United States.
Journal Article
There are many contributors to obesity, including excess consumption of discretionary calories (foods high in sugar and fat and low in essential nutrients), lack of fruit/vegetable consumption, and insufficient physical activity.
Report
This study, commissioned by the UK National Audit Office, examines the importance, nature and impact of behaviour change programmes in today's Department of Health.
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