It's been two years since the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announced that they would award $500 million in grants to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015, including the Rudd Center’s two Healthy Eating Research grants as well as a grant to examine food marketing practices directed at youth. To accomplish their goal, they have been building the evidence about the problem and what interventions work, as well as turning the evidence into action.
Now, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation wants to know what you think. After conducting a thorough literature search and consulting with childhood obesity experts, they selected 20 recently published articles that they believe have the potential to influence the field in the coming years. They would like you to nominate the five you think are the most influential.
Voting ends July 10, so vote now, and feel free to pass this link along to your colleagues and encourage them to vote.
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Posted by: Terry | July 06, 2009 at 10:30 PM
Excellent link! Thanks, I put in my vote.
One of the articles listed was:
“A Randomized Trial of the Effects of Reducing
Television Viewing and Computer Use on Body Mass
Index in Young Children”
Which (surprise, surprise) found that children
who reduced their TV and computer use also
reduced their BMI.
http://www.rwjf.org/pr/product.jsp?id=43850
This study is in addition to the Stanford study
which found the same thing.
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/1999/may5/tvweight-55.html
And this University of Illinois study which found
that a decrease in TV/video gaming was associated
with increased leisure-time physical activity.
And this University at Buffalo study:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1580637/Less-TV-and-PC-use-help-children-lose-weight.html
And a "study of the habits of members of the National
Weight Control Registry"
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-10-31-tv-weight_x.htm
Anyway, there is plenty of science linking reducing
TV to reducing BMI, So my question is, why does
Rudd Sound Bites studiously avoid this very promising
method of weight-loss and/or prevention of weight gain.
Rudd Sound Bites, to it's credit, has covered the
negative effects of advertising, including TV advertising.
But hardly any mention of the power of reducing TV and
other screen time.
Why is that?
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