El Paso Group Teaches Kids to Eat Healthier
September 7, 2011 | Story
Winning Strategies in the Fight Against Childhood Obesity.
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Kid Power is the Key to Getting Young People to Eat Healthy
September 28, 2011 | Story
A Portland, Ore., Ladder to Leadership team partners with 4th graders to help a community learn more about living healthy.
Improving Built Environments and Community Connections Can Spur Better Health
September 28, 2011 | Story
Three innovative projects uncover ways to protect mental and physical health by changing the ways people live and interact with each other.
How Does Community Design Impact Health?
January 26, 2010 | Story
Zhu learned that walking to school is a complicated matter. But she quickly discovered that choosing to walk to school "is such a complex problem that it cannot be simplified into a single index.
New Connections Grantee Wins Salud America! Award to Study Latino Health
September 21, 2009 | Story
Cortes to study strategies to improve healthy eating.
Teens Teach Scholars the Roots of Youth Gun Violence
August 25, 2009 | Story
A photography project becomes a valuable research tool for understanding a life-threatening public health problem.
Food Advertisements on Spanish-Language Television
June 22, 2009 | Story
Fast food and drinks are the most commonly advertised items.
Combating Obesity in Minority and Low-Income Children
January 13, 2008 | Story
Consumer psychologist Sonya A. Grier, PhD, MBA, a Health & Society Scholar, collaborated with colleagues to study fast-food marketing and targeted interventions to combat childhood obesity.