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April 5, 2013 | Program Result
Healthy Eating Research aims to reduce childhood obesity by funding studies to examine policy and environmental approaches with potential to improve children's diets - especially children in the groups at the highest risk for obesity.
August 27, 2012 | Story
Katrina Diaz, the daughter of two physicians, had a good idea she was headed toward a medical career. The Young Epidemiology Scholars (YES) Competition provided an "affirmation," she says. "It let me know that I was on the right track."
May 31, 2011 | Story
Studying what preschoolers in child care centers in California are eating and drinking - and the quality of food and beverages served.
May 1, 2011 | Journal Article
This article describes variation in playground environments and physical activity policies at childcare centers in Hamilton County, Ohio, an area demographically similar to the overall U.S. population. Revised policies might safely allow more outdoor playtime.
April 11, 2011 | Story
Overly restrictive weather-related policies and lack of indoor facilities prevent children from getting needed play time.
January 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Low-sugar cereal served with fruit is found quite acceptable by youth as a breakfast choice.
August 30, 2010 | Program Result
Researchers at Pennsylvania State University College of Health and Human Development tested the effect of changes in foods provided by day-care centers to their pre-schoolers.
August 11, 2010 | Program Result
The Sesame Workshop distributed 14,000 copies of the Healthy Habits for Life Child Care Resource Kit in English and Spanish to home-based child care providers to help them integrate nutrition and physical activity into their daily routines.
March 24, 2010 | Program Result
The Developing Families Center in Washington, D.C., provides health and social support services to young women and their families in the city's low-income, Black neighborhoods.
March 24, 2010 | Program Result
Shaniqua Ballard was living without much hope in a shelter for pregnant women, with little money and no health insurance, until she discovered the Developing Families Center, where she received obstetric and well-woman care, and enrolled her children in the child development program.