Category Archives: Child Obesity
Rutgers Students Fight Obesity: Grades are in; Projects to be Promoted to Health Authorities, May 14, 2014
The class is over and all grades have been submitted. The students who took Obesity: Biology, Behavior, and Management this past spring semester (2014) were a fantastic groups of students: Bright, Passionate, Aware, and Excellent Writers! I was so lucky to have this particular group in my class. Most were seniors. Four or five are …
Rutgers Students Fight Obesity: Projects from Our Class: Obesity: Biology, Behavior, and Management, April 26, 2014
During this spring semester (2014) the students from the class worked on group projects that were for the purpose of designing a program that would fight obesity in the US. The Projects were presented in class and each one contained fantastic ideas and realistic strategies that would certainly be helpful in the fight against obesity …
Rutgers University Fights Childhood Obesity: The Healthy HomeStyles Research Coalition and Project, Lectures by Dr. Carol Byrd-Bredbenner, PhD, RD, FAND, and Jennifer Martin-Biggers, MS, RD; April 2013/2014
Dr. Byrd-Bredbenner’s research focuses on nutrition education and health promotion with the goal of promoting healthy lifestyles. Her research systematically studies the complex interplay of personal and environmental factors that influence dietary choices in order to enable health professionals to design effective programs that result in improved nutrition and health. Dr. Byrd-Bredbenner specifically studies obesity …
Causes of the Obesity Epidemic in the United States; A Post by Joseph Dixon, April 12, 2014
After teaching/directing Obesity: Biology, Behavior, and Management for two semesters, I have attained an appreciation of the complexity of obesity and its causes and its effects on individuals and the population in general. Having taught Nutrition and Health for close to 25 years, I had a basic understanding of obesity, but I never went into …
Roles of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Accompanying Education Programs in the Health and Nutrition of the Food Insecure, a Lecture By Dr. Debra Palmer, Ph.D., March 26, 2014
Dr. Debra M. Palmer’s research in nutrition involves issues regarding household food insecurity; the evaluation of innovative methods of providing nutrition education; and incorporating physical activity education into nutrition education venues. As a member of the Nutrition Sciences faculty, Dr. Palmer teaches several graduate level courses on community nutrition. Additionally, Dr. Palmer oversees two statewide …
Transitional Factors that Cause the Simultaneous Presence of Undernutrition and Obesity in Developing Countries, a Lecture by Dr. Dan Hoffman, Ph.D., March 12, 2014
Dr. Hoffman studies the biological and environmental factors that cause obesity. His research investigates how changes in substrate oxidation may predispose an individual to an increase in body fat. Dr. Hoffman collaborates with the University of São Paulo, Brazil and the University of Southampton, UK in the study of two large, unique cohorts. In Brazil, Dr. …
Role of the Physical Environment in Obesity, A Lecture by Dr. Yanhong Jin, Ph.D., March 5, 2014
Website: http://yjin.rutgers.edu Dr. Jin’s research involves the role of the Physical Environment on the rates of obesity in the United States. The Physical Environment is defined as our current structured environment where people (adults and children) live, eat, play, shop, work, and attend school. Therefore, the Physical Environment includes the Neighborhood food environment, Neighborhood parks …
New Study Supports Case that Obesity Begins in Early Childhood
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (370: 403-311, 2014; January 30, 2014) supports the notion that the development of an overweight condition and/or obesity in early childhood are important causes of the increase in obesity rates in the US. In this study, 7738 children who were in kindergarten during the 1998–1999 …
Professor John Worobey’s Lecture on Childhood Obesity
Professor John Worobey of Rutgers University provided two background articles for his lecture on obesity in children: 1) “A narrative literature review of the development of obesity in infancy and childhood,” by Sally Robinson, Katie Yardy and Victoria Carter. J Child Health Care 2012 16: 339. 2) “Do not eat the red food!: Prohibition of …
The Seeds of Obesity are Sown in Young Children
One reason the obesity epidemic is a complex problem is that it has different causes at different stages of life, but a major root cause starts at a young age: For young children – It is so easy for parents and caregivers to allow children to watch TV or play computer games rather than to …
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