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September 27, 2012 | Evaluation
In 2007, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation awarded Nemours Health and Prevention Services a grant to monitor implementation of healthy eating and physical activity policies and practices in schools and child-care settings.
March 1, 2013 | Report/Evaluation
California’s Healthy Beverages in Childcare Act was implemented in January 2012 to regulate beverages in licensed childcare centers. This report measures the impact of the policy on childcare practices.
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."
August 11, 2010 | Program Results Report
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.
May 11, 2009 | Program Results Report
Researchers with the Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation in Wisconsin evaluated use of a toolkit designed to help child-care centers prevent overweight among young children by encouraging healthy eating and physical activity.
June 17, 2013 | Report
Research shows that when communities have access to affordable, healthy foods, residents purchase and consume healthier foods over time.
January 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Low-sugar cereal served with fruit is found quite acceptable by youth as a breakfast choice.
National Program
To support and disseminate focused investigator-initiated research and policy analysis to identify effective policy and environmental strategies for reversing the rise in childhood obesity by 2015.
National Program
To employ a comprehensive set of interventions to improve the health of children in Trenton, New Jersey.
April 5, 2013 | Program Results Report
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.