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Rudd Center in the News
Rudd
Center Deputy Director Rebecca Puhl commented on weight discrimination
in the workplace and the lack of legal protection against this common
form of bias, in a June 26 article in Refinery29,
a fashion and style website for women. "There is little public
understanding about obesity as a complex, chronic disease that has
multiple determinants, only one of which is personal behavior," Puhl
said. "We also live in a society where weight bias and stereotypes are
common in the mass media, and where such instances go unchallenged."
A CNN Money special report, "Feeding America's most vulnerable children," focused
on Bridgeport, CT, where 40 percent of the children rely on food stamps
- double the U.S. rate. Rudd Center Director Marlene Schwartz was among
the school nutrition and food policy experts featured in the June 22
program that tells how the nation's most vulnerable children are fed on
only a few dollars a day. Poor nutrition affects their health and school
performance. "It's an important part of our culture to feel like we're
giving all children a chance to be successful," Schwartz told
correspondent and anchor Poppy Harlow.
A June 15 article in U.S. News & & World Report, I'm an Addict. A Food Addict, delves
into the controversial science of food addiction, which is not
acknowledged in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual. The piece includes comments from Rudd Director
Schwartz, whose dissertation looked at Overeaters Anonymous. "There's a
validation that comes from being in a group with other people," Schwartz
said.
Mike Brubaker, a former Pennsylvania state
senator who heads a private equity and real estate firm, wrote an op-ed
piece published by Lancaster Online, "Join the effort to fight hunger afflicting schoolchildren here." He
cites the Rudd Center's recent study that found that the federal
government's new healthier school lunch standards reduced "plate waste,"
and led students to consume more fruit and throw away less of their
entrees and vegetables. "Please tell your school that you support
nutritious meals for all of our students and an ongoing commitment to
the standards of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act," Brubaker wrote.
U.S. News & World Report's provocatively titled June 5 article, "The Great Government Takeover," explored the timely question of the government's role in improving nutrition and addressing obesity.
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