Obesity Working Group - AUFSI

08/24/2021

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08/24/2021

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01/08/2020

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200103141049.htm

Television programs featuring healthy foods can be a key ingredient in leading children to make healthier food choices now and into adulthood. A new study found kids who watched a child-oriented cooking show featuring healthy food were 2.7 times more likely to make a healthy food choice than those w...

12/03/2019

“We study the causes of “nutritional inequality”: why the wealthy eat more healthfully than the poor in the United States. Exploiting supermarket entry and household moves to healthier neighborhoods, we reject that neighborhood environments contribute meaningfully to nutritional inequality. We then estimate a structural model of grocery demand, using a new instrument exploiting the combination of grocery retail chains’ differing presence across geographic markets with their differing comparative advantages across product groups. Counterfactual simulations show that exposing low-income households to the same products and prices available to high income households reduces nutritional inequality by only about ten percent, while the remaining 90 percent is driven by differences in demand. These findings counter the argument that policies to increase the supply of healthy groceries could play an important role in reducing nutritional inequality.”
https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/134/4/1793/5492274

10/10/2018

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10/10/2018

The University of Louisville announced it has received more than $16 million in funding for medical research. The National Institutes of Health awarded the grants to the school's Diabetes and Obesity Center.

10/03/2018

It's time for a new approach that takes aim at root causes.

09/21/2018

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08/15/2018

So what do you think?

It’s not that we’re eating more, that we exercise less, or that we lack willpower. The shaming of overweight people has to stop, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

08/13/2018

Scientists are learning more about how our gut microbes may influence dieting. A small new study finds successful dieters have a different mix of bacteria than less-successful dieters.

07/11/2018

Adolescents are 75 percent less likely to be very overweight if their mothers practiced five specific healthy habits, according to a new study from Harvard University, Johns Hopkins and more.

06/14/2018

Approximately 46 million persons (14%) in the United States live in nonmetropolitan counties.