School districts that implemented strong nutrition standards for competitive foods saw their income from food sales drop and then rebound over time with sales of more nutritious fare, according to a report by Jamie Chriqui and colleagues at the Illinois Public Health Institute.
Students’ intake of fruits and vegetables increased when states required schools to offer them at lunch, especially among teens who had only unhealthy snacks available at home, reported Dan Taber and colleagues in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
How are young adults, who smoke cigarettes at the highest rate of any age group, responding to the increasing number of alternative tobacco products? With a new grant from NCI, Robin Mermelstein and a multidisciplinary team of investigators will explore this question.
With a new NIH grant, David Marquez will learn whether a salsa dance program improved the health and physical activity levels of Latino seniors. Pilot work for this intervention was supported by the Midwest Roybal Center.
Only two in five public elementary schools restricted unhealthy foods or drinks in their 2009–11 fundraising activities, learned Lindsey Turner and colleagues in a nationwide survey of principals.
Robin Mermelstein and colleagues have identified four profiles of adolescent smoking patterns that predict whether teen smokers will become daily smokers over four years.
In restaurants, children and teens consumed higher amounts of sugar, total fat, saturated fat and sodium and drank less milk than they did at home, reports Lisa Powell in Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. And the difference is even greater for lower-income children.
In a study of 4,432 middle-school students, study skills, more than other factors, predicted whether sixth graders would be involved in violence by spring of eighth grade, found David Henry and colleagues.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded a fifth grant for ImpacTeen, directed by Frank Chaloupka, to support research examining policy and environmental factors that influence youth behaviors related to obesity.
Thirty-four faculty members across the University of Illinois at Chicago campus have been recognized for their commitment to the IHRP mission of interdisciplinary, collaborative research.
