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NYC Board of Health Approves Large Sugary Drink Ban
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proposal to ban the sale of large sugary drinks in restaurants, food carts, delis, theaters, and arenas. The ban will begin on March 12, 2013 and will prohibit retailers from selling sugary drinks in cups or containers larger than 16 ounces. The products
affected include energy drinks, presweetened teas, and non-diet soda.
The aim of the regulation, which was unanimously passed, is to combat obesity and encourage residents to lead a healthier lifestyle. It is the first restriction of its kind in the country.
Many health experts are lauding the measure’s passage as a major step forward in making New York City residents healthier and believe the measure will be replicated in other cities in the nation.
“This is a policy based on solid science,” said Kelly Brownell, PhD, Rudd Center Director. “I salute Mayor Bloomberg and the New York City Health Department for their courage in standing up to pressure from the soda industry and acting in the interest of
the public's well-being.”
Parents Tell Cereal Companies to Stop Marketing Unhealthy Cereals to Children
In many of the cereals marketed to children, there's a spoonful of sugar for every three spoonsful of cereal, according to the Rudd Center’s
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Cereal FACTS 2012 report. [log in to unmask]" target="_blank" title="http://dmanalytics1.com/e3ds/mail_link.php?u=http://wfc2.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=4Cm9LVvIjwFAJCr%2F3K2UCoxNLT4oere2&i=29&d=137V6V85-2U32-436X-Z687-U1VU9Z831V6Y&[log in to unmask]">
Parents can take action by encouraging companies like General Mills, Kellogg, and Post to promote healthier options to kids – such as regular Cheerios, Unfrosted Mini-Wheats, or Shredded Wheat – instead of Trix, Frosted Flakes, Pebbles, or other products
loaded with sugar. Join the 16,000 parents who have told cereal companies to help make breakfast a healthier meal for children.
New Tools for Parent Advocates to Improve School Food
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‘Roots Parents supports the grassroots efforts of parent advocates to make school food healthier by offering information and resources they can use to take action.
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message board allows parents to gather information, ask questions, share experiences, and stay informed. The
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Meatless Monday section describes the benefits of meat-free meals and ways to encourage a school or district to join the movement.
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Media Resources offers multimedia tools to help parents, including two new videos, which describe how to use Rudd ‘Roots Parents –
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Change School Food – and how to
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Popular Children’s Websites Accused of Unfair and Deceptive Marketing
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coalition of nearly 20 children’s health, privacy, and consumer advocacy organizations, led by the Center for Digital Democracy, that filed complaints with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), claiming that online marketing to children by well-known companies
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Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
Under COPPA, website operators are required to obtain verifiable consent from parents before collecting personal information about children under age 13. According to the complaints, six popular children’s websites have violated COPPA by engaging in a form
of digital peer-to-peer viral marketing known as “tell-a-friend” or “refer-a-friend” campaigns. Through these campaigns, children who participate in brand-related activities are encouraged to share email addresses of friends, who then receive emails encouraging
them to try the same activity.
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HappyMeal.com, General Mills’ [log in to unmask]" target="_blank" title="http://dmanalytics1.com/e3ds/mail_link.php?u=http://reesespuffs.com/&i=39&d=137V6V85-2U32-436X-Z687-U1VU9Z831V6Y&[log in to unmask]">
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CartoonNetwork.com.
New Spanish-Language Video on Sugary Children's Cereals
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How Sweet It Is! along with the
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Cereal FACTS 2012 report in June. Now available is the Spanish-language version of the video,
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¡Que Dulzura!. The video shows the truth about how much sugar may be in cereals marketed to children. Visit the new webpage for all
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Rudd Center Spanish-language materials.
Upcoming Seminar Speakers
Wednesday, October 3, 12:30 pm
Curt Ellis
Co-Founder and Executive Director, FoodCorps
Growing Forward: A New Vision for Food and Farming in America
*Location – Peabody Museum, 170 Whitney Avenue, 3rd Floor Auditorium*
Wednesday, October 10, 12:30 pm
James Krieger, MD, MPH
Chief, Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention Section, Public Health – Seattle and King County; Clinical Professor, Medicine and Health Services, University of Washington
Using Policy and Systems Changes to Create Healthy Environments at the Local Level
Wednesday, October 17, 12:30 pm
Ellen Wartella, PhD
Al-Thani Professor of Communication, Professor of Psychology, Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, Director of the Center on Media and Human Development, Northwestern University
Media Characters: The Unhidden Persuaders in Food Marketing to Children
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Rudd Center Spotlight: Curt Ellis
Curt Ellis,
Co-Founder and Executive Director of the national service organization, FoodCorps, will present
Growing Forward: A New Vision for Food and Farming in America on October 3 during the Rudd Center’s
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Fall Seminar Series. The seminar will be held at the Yale Peabody Museum.
Through his work at FoodCorps, Ellis places emerging leaders in limited-resource communities to connect children to real food. FoodCorps service members deliver hands-on nutrition education, help children grow and taste new foods in school gardens, and work
with farmers, chefs, and food service staff to improve school meals.
After growing up in Oregon and finding his passion for food and agriculture at The Mountain School and Yale, Ellis moved to Iowa to investigate the role of subsidized commodities in the American obesity epidemic. While there, he co-created the documentary
King Corn, which was released in theaters nationally and broadcast on PBS, helped drive policy discussion on the Farm Bill, and earned a George Foster Peabody Award.
With a Food and Community Fellowship from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Ellis helped launch Truck Farm, a mobile garden project, and directed
Big River, a sequel to
King Corn, for Discovery's Planet Green.
Ellis is a Draper Richards Kaplan Social Entrepreneur, a recipient of the Heinz Award, and has been featured on ABC's
Good Morning America, CBS’s
Sunday Morning, and NPR's
All Things Considered.
Just Published by the Rudd Center
Federal Food Program Pays Billions for Sugar-Sweetened Beverages
The federal government’s [log in to unmask]" target="_blank" title="http://dmanalytics1.com/e3ds/mail_link.php?u=http://www.yaleruddcenter.org/resources/upload/docs/what/economics/SNAP_SSB_Purchases_AJPM_10.12.pdf&i=52&d=137V6V85-2U32-436X-Z687-U1VU9Z831V6Y&[log in to unmask]">
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) pays at least $2 billion annually for sugar-sweetened beverages purchased in grocery stores alone, according to a study recently published by the Rudd Center in the
American Journal of Preventive Medicine. The study provided a conservative estimate on spending because it did not include sugar-sweetened
beverage SNAP purchases from other retail channels such as convenience stores or Walmart.
Researchers found that 58 percent of all refreshment beverages purchased by SNAP participants were for sugar-sweetened beverages such as regular soda, fruit drinks, and sports drinks. According to the researchers, SNAP benefits paid for 72 percent of these
purchases.
“SNAP benefits are critically important in helping low-income families put food on the table, and in this economy, many American families could not feed their children without the federal food assistance provided by SNAP,” said Tatiana Andreyeva, PhD, lead
author and Director of Economic Initiatives at the Rudd Center.
“At the same time, the annual use of billions of dollars in SNAP benefits to purchase products at the core of public health concerns about obesity and chronic illnesses is misaligned with the goal of helping economically vulnerable families live active,
healthy lives,” Andreyeva added. “Anti-hunger and public health advocates should work together to ensure that all government food assistance programs are implemented in a way that is consistent with helping Americans meet government dietary recommendations.”
The paper was co-authored by the Rudd Center’s Joerg Luedicke, MS, Statistical Consultant; Kathryn Henderson, PhD, Director of Community and School Initiatives; and Amanda Tripp, MPH, doctoral student in public health.
Beverage Industry Uses Front Group to Avoid Government Regulation
Much like the tobacco industry, the [log in to unmask]" target="_blank" title="http://dmanalytics1.com/e3ds/mail_link.php?u=http://www.yaleruddcenter.org/resources/upload/docs/what/industry/Front-Groups-Conflicts-of-Interest_PHN_8.12.pdf&i=53&d=137V6V85-2U32-436X-Z687-U1VU9Z831V6Y&[log in to unmask]">
beverage industry has created an industry-based front group to avoid government regulation, according to a commentary by the Rudd Center in
Public Health Nutrition. The authors asserted that the industry group, Americans Against Food Taxes (AAFT), is attempting to create a grassroots image and generate conflicts of interest by funding
community groups which then support food and beverage industry goals.
AAFT is described as “a coalition of concerned citizens – responsible individuals, financially strapped families, small and large businesses in communities across the country – opposed to the government tax hikes on food and beverages.” However, the authors
found that most of AAFT’s coalition members are groups associated with the production, distribution, or promotion of food and beverage products.
According to the authors, many community organizations that stand against food taxes, some of which represent populations most vulnerable to obesity and diabetes, have received support from the food and/or beverage industry. The authors urged policy makers
and the public to be aware of the ways in which the food and beverage industry attempts to hinder or circumvent government regulation.
The commentary was co-authored by Swati Yanamadala, medical student at Stanford University; and the Rudd Center’s Marie Bragg, MS, MPhil, Yale University doctoral student in clinical psychology; Christina Roberto, PhD, Researcher; and Kelly Brownell, PhD, Director.
Anti-Obesity Campaigns: Are We Fighting Obesity or Obese People?
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public responds more favorably to obesity-related health campaigns that emphasize specific health behaviors and personal empowerment for health, rather than messages that imply personal blame and stigmatize those who are obese, according to a new study
published by the Rudd Center. The study, which appears in the International Journal of Obesity, was the first to systematically assess public perceptions of anti-obesity public health campaigns.
Campaigns rated most favorable and motivating contained messages that promoted specific health behaviors, such as increased fruit and vegetable consumption in the national 5-A-Day campaign; more general health messages such as the First Lady’s Let’s Move
campaign; and campaigns that attempted to instill confidence and personal empowerment regarding one’s health. Campaign messages rated most positively and motivating made no mention of obesity.
In contrast, anti-obesity campaigns that have been publicly criticized for promoting shame, blame, and stigmatization toward individuals struggling with obesity were rated most negatively and least motivating for behavior change. Participants expressed less
of an intention to act upon the messages’ content. The worst rated was the Children’s Health Care of Atlanta Campaign to address childhood obesity, which featured billboards portraying obese youth with captions such as “Being fat takes the fun out of being
a kid” and “Chubby kids may not outlive their parents.”
The authors asserted that messages intended to motivate individuals to lose weight may be more effective if framed in ways that promote specific health behaviors and the confidence to engage in those behaviors, rather than messages that imply personal blame.
The study was co-authored by the Rudd Center’s Rebecca Puhl, PhD, Director of Research and Weight Stigma Initiatives; Jamie Lee Peterson, MA, former Research Associate; and Joerg Luedicke, MS, Statistical Consultant. A
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blog about the study by Dr. Puhl appears on Medscape.
Sports Figures Market Unhealthy Products to Children
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and beverage companies use sports figures to market unhealthy products to children, according to a study published in
Public Health Nutrition by the Rudd Center. The study showed that food companies actively target children through the use of sports images on packaging, including portrayals of cartoon characters
engaging in physical activity.
Researchers examined the marketing and nutrition of nearly 100 products that featured sports references and found that 42 percent of the products were endorsed by at least one professional athlete, sports organization, or sports team. Seventy-five percent of
the products assessed featured at least one type of sports equipment, and 72 percent featured a person or character exercising.
The authors asserted that while the industry’s emphasis on physical activity messages could be helpful, the effects may be negative if the companies associate health messages with unhealthy products. Policy makers should consider prohibiting sports references
on unhealthy products that are child-targeted and sports organizations should avoid partnering with companies that market unhealthy products.
The paper was co-authored by the Rudd Center’s Marie Bragg, MS, MPhil, Yale University doctoral student in clinical psychology; Christina Roberto, PhD, Researcher; Vishnu Sarda, MBBS, MPH, Biostatistician; Jennifer Harris, PhD, Director of Marketing Initiatives;
Kelly Brownell, PhD, Director; and Duke University’s Peggy Liu, doctoral student in business.
Weight and Gender Influence Physical Educators’ Expectations of Youth
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educators’ expectations, attributions, and attitudes regarding students are negatively influenced by youth’s body weight, and differ by student gender, according to a study by the Rudd Center in the
Journal of School Health.
Researchers found that participants expected overweight students to have inferior physical abilities compared to non-overweight students. Furthermore, participants expected overweight females to exhibit inferior physical performance, reasoning, cooperation,
and social skills, compared to non-overweight females.
The authors asserted that increasing awareness of weight bias and its consequences on the part of physical educators and coaches could result in educational, physical, and social benefits for overweight youth.
The paper was co-authored by the Rudd Center’s Jamie Lee Peterson, MA, former Research Associate; Rebecca Puhl, PhD, Director of Research and Weight Stigma Initiatives; and Joerg Luedicke, MS, Statistical Consultant.
Denying Treatment to Obese Patients: A Growing Trend?
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care settings are among the places where weight bias most consistently occurs, according to a recent blog on Medscape by Rebecca Puhl, PhD, Rudd Center Director of Research and Weight Stigma Initiatives. This may lead to patients being denied medical care
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Massachusetts woman turned away by her doctor.
The Latest Rudd Center Podcasts
Jason Riis, PhD
Assistant Professor, Business Administration, Harvard Business School
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Food Practices in Retail Settings
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