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Hold the Salt: Lowering Sodium Intake Would Improve Health and Save Money

Details the benefits that would accrue from reducing sodium consumption among Americans, including a reduced prevalence of high blood pressure, lower medical costs, and improved quality of life.

Oct 9, 2009
News Release

News Release

Los Angeles Fast-Food Restaurant Ban Unlikely to Have Impact on Obesity

Restrictions on fast-food chain restaurants in South Los Angeles are not addressing the main differences between neighborhood food environments and are unlikely to improve the diet of residents or reduce obesity.

Oct 6, 2009
Journal Article

Journal Article

Los Angeles Fast-Food Restaurant Ban Unlikely to Have Impact on Obesity

Restrictions on fast-food chain restaurants in South Los Angeles are not addressing the main differences between neighborhood food environments and are unlikely to improve the diet of residents or reduce obesity.

Oct 6, 2009
Journal Article

Journal Article

Using Community-Based Participatory Research to Identify Potential Interventions to Overcome Barriers to Adolescents' Healthy Eating and Physical Activity

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.

Oct 1, 2009
Journal Article

Journal Article

Body Mass Index, Neighborhood Fast Food and Restaurant Concentration, and Car Ownership

Concentration of fast food restaurants is associated with higher BMI among local residents.

Sep 1, 2009
Journal Article

Journal Article

Community-based Participatory Research: Partnering with Communities for Effective and Sustainable Behavioral Health Interventions

The authors describe a community based participatory research (CBPR) effort to develop, pilot test, and conduct a randomized controlled trial of a school-based adolescent obesity prevention program.

Jan 1, 2009
Journal Article

Journal Article

Development and Implementation of a School-Based Obesity Prevention Intervention: Lessons Learned from Community-Based Participatory Research

Describes lessons learned from developing and pilot testing a middle school-based obesity prevention intervention using Community-based participatory research (CBPR) in Los Angeles, California.

Jan 1, 2009
Journal Article

Journal Article

Lowering Salt Consumption Could Save U.S. Billions in Health Costs

Reducing Americans' average intake of sodium to the amount recommended by health officials could save the nation as much as $18 billion annually in avoided health care costs and improve the quality of life for millions of people.

Jan 1, 2009
News Release

News Release

Weight Loss Surgery May Help Obese Women Avoid Pregnancy-Related Health Complications

Obese women who have weight loss surgery before becoming pregnant have a lower risk of pregnancy-related health problems and their children are less likely to be born with complications.

Nov 18, 2008
Report

Report

The EU Platform on Diet, Physical Activity and Health: Third Monitoring Progress Report

Presents an overview of the achievements of the European Union Platform on Diet, Physical Activity and Health in 2007.

Sep 7, 2008
Research Brief

Research Brief

Do Neighborhood Economic Conditions Influence the Consumption of Fruits and Vegetables?

This fact sheet summarizes a study examining the variation of the intake of fruits and vegetables for blacks, whites, and Mexican Americans, in addition to the relationship between neighborhood socioeconomic status and this intake.

Aug 11, 2008
Journal Article

Journal Article

Prevention of Unintentional Weight Loss in Nursing Home Residents: A Controlled Trial of Feeding Assistance

Twice-daily feeding assistance promotes food and fluid intake and weight gain in nursing home residents at risk for weight loss. Delivery of snacks between meals requires less staff time than at mealtime and thus may be more practical to implement.

Aug 1, 2008
Journal Article

Journal Article

Stemming the Global Obesity Epidemic: What Can We Learn from Data About Social and Economic Trends?

Significant effort is devoted to promoting increased fruit/vegetable consumption and physical activity to fight obesity, but environmental intervention and economic incentives to reduce energy intake and sedentary entertainment may be more effective.

Aug 1, 2008
Research Brief

Research Brief

Pathways to Obesity: Are People "Hardwired" to Overeat?

This fact sheet summarizes research on mechanisms that affect overeating but that operate below the level of individual awareness and beyond individual control.

Jun 10, 2008
Journal Article

Journal Article

Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Fruit and Vegetable Intake Among Whites, Blacks, and Mexican Americans in the United States

Neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) is positively associated with fruit and vegetable intake. Neighborhood SES partially explains black-white intake disparity and is differentially associated with white, black, and Mexican American intake.

Jun 1, 2008
Report

Report

Eating as an Automatic Behavior

Examines the concept that eating is an automatic behavior, as opposed to one that humans can self-regulate, and suggests that the focus of controlling obesity should be less on nutrition education and more on shaping the food environment.

May 22, 2008
Research Brief

Research Brief

Why People Overeat: Rethinking the Causes of Obesity

This research brief summarizes a study suggesting that though lack of will power is blamed for failure to maintain a diet, the more likely culprit is automatic responses to cues to eat and the availability of cheap, convenient, high-calorie foods.

Feb 7, 2008
Report

Report

Assessing the impact of revisions to the EU horizontal food labelling legislation

The European Commission is currently preparing a revision of the European horizontal food labelling legislation and commissioned RAND Europe to conduct an assessment of the economic, social and environmental impacts of different policy options.

Feb 3, 2008
Report

Report

Assessing the Impact of Nutrition Label Revisions in the EU

The European Commission (EC) is currently considering a revision of its food nutrition labelling legislation. An assessment of the proposed policy alternatives addresses their potential economic, social and environmental impact.

Feb 1, 2008
Journal Article

Journal Article

Appetite for Change: School Meals Policy in the Limelight 2005

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

Jan 1, 2008

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