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November 22, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Many news reports this week put the calorie counts for Thanksgiving dinner at anywhere from 2,000 to 4,500 calories (likely an extra slice of pie and an extra pour of gravy in the latter count), which is why health departments across the country are ...
November 8, 2011 | New Public Health Post
The Obesity Solutions Initiative at the Hudson Institute, a think tank based in Washington, D.C., has released a new report, “Better for You Foods—It’s Just Good Business,” that found food and beverage companies with a higher percentage of their sal ...
May 22, 2013 | Culture of Health Post
Supporting SNAP is both the right thing to do and the smart thing to do, writes RWJF Vice President James S. Marks in an op-ed in the Huffington Post.
April 19, 2013 | New Public Health Post
Some would-be planters get stopped in their carrot tracks by regulations that prohibit use of public spaces for planting, or even limit what can be grown on private property.
August 23, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Around the country, print, broadcast and online media outlets are covering the groundbreaking work of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) leaders, scholars, fellows and grantees. Some recent examples: Women who had attention-deficit hyperactivity ...
March 29, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Around the country, the news media is covering the groundbreaking work of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation scholars, fellows and grantees. Here are some examples. Nurse.com and Becker’s Hospital Review report on the launch of the Robert Wood Johnson F ...
March 16, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
HCB: Your study looked at an intervention that increased SNAP redemptions by 38 percent over a nine month period. Tell us what you found. Buttenheim: Before our intervention, SNAP participants who shopped at the year-round Clark Park farmers’ market ...
May 13, 2011 | New Public Health Post
A new online mapping tool from the U.S. Department of Agriculture is helping identify census tracts within the nation where low-income communities overlap with limited access to a supermarket or large grocery store. The new tool, called the Food Des ...
February 22, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
The monthly Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) e-newsletter will keep you up to date on the latest nursing news, research and trends.