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Rudd Center in the News
As food
companies and restaurants increasingly remove artificial ingredients and
GMOs from their offerings, "It's important that people still pay
attention to things like portion size and calories even though the
restaurant may have actually made some important changes," Rudd Center
Director Marlene Schwartz said in a May 29 NBC News piece.
The Rudd Center's March study on the increasing health hazard that energy drinks pose to young people was cited in a May 19 article in Digital Trends on how players of video games are being targeted for marketing by energy drink makers.
Rudd Center Deputy Director Rebecca Puhl's study assessing public
opinion about the classification of obesity as a disease was highlighted
in the May 13 edition of UConn Today. A May 14 commentary piece in Medscape by
Dr. Puhl, "Obesity as a 'Disease' - What Americans Think, and Why
That's Important," included a section on how her findings may inform
relationships between healthcare providers and patients. She noted that
many patients may not be aware that obesity is now considered a disease.
"Healthcare providers may want to inform patients of the disease
classification and discuss the implications that this has as a paradigm
for diagnosis and treatment," Puhl wrote.
The May 11 edition of The New York Times quoted Rudd Center Director
Marlene Schwartz about making sure you get enough volume of food when
you eat at a restaurant to feel satisfied when you leave. The
tip appeared in an article by writer Josh Barro called "How to Eat Healthy Meals at Restaurants."
Reuters ran a hard-hitting piece
May 8 on a study showing that the vast majority of TV commercials
during shows aimed at kids under age 12 are for unhealthy foods with too
much added sugar, saturated fat or sodium. The ads don't meet proposed
federal voluntary guidelines for the nutritional quality of foods
advertised to children. Jennifer Harris, Rudd Center Director of
Marketing Initiatives (who was not part of the study), told Reuters:
"This paper is interesting because it shows that the industry's
definition of what is healthy and should be marketed to kids is
completely out of whack with the opinions of government experts."
New York Magazine published a provocative piece on May 4 called "Willpower (or Lack of It) Is the Wrong Way to Think About Weight."
Writer Melissa Dahl quoted Rudd Center Deputy Director Rebecca Puhl and
cited her recent multi-national findings that, when people believe the
cause of obesity is lack of willpower, they express stronger weight
bias, on average, than those who believe biological or environmental
factors play major roles. "...I think the way to think about this is
that obesity is a very complex puzzle and personal behavior is just one
of those pieces," Puhl said in the article.
The Rudd Center was featured in UConn Magazine's Spring 2015 edition in
an article on our work to reverse the obesity epidemic. The piece,
"National Disaster," quotes Rudd Center Director Marlene Schwartz on
putting research into action. "If all I'm doing is publishing in a
journal, that's not helping anybody else." Deputy Director Rebecca Puhl
talks about challenging the assumption that obesity is a matter of
personal choice. "That's a false assumption," she says, pointing out
that the American Medical Association now classifies obesity as a
disease.
Rudd Center Director Marlene Schwartz appeared May 4 on WNPR's radio program "Where We Live" to discuss "Is Fast Food Going Out of Style?" The
wide-ranging interview touched on topics including why McDonald's is
struggling, how Americans are eating out more often, and policy options
like taxing unhealthy foods while providing incentives for healthy
foods.
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