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Rudd Center Recent Publications
Are fast-food restaurants keeping their promises to offer
healthier kids' meals? New study finds the answer is "sometimes."
“Since 2013, the fast-food restaurants we examined have made changes to
offer and promote healthier drink and side options for kids’ meals.
Still, about one-third of menu boards inside the restaurants we examined
continued to list sugary soda and other soft drinks as an option for
kids’ meals. And perhaps more importantly, there was wide variation in
whether customers were offered the healthier options when they ordered a
kids’ meal,” said Jennifer Harris, Director of Marketing Initiatives
for the UConn Rudd Center, and lead author of the report.
“Some personnel at all the chains examined continued to give customers a
cup for a soft drink and/or french fries with kids’ meal orders without
offering any healthier options, despite the pledges,” Harris said.
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What's Simmering With Our Friends
Every Child Needs
A new campaign— Every Child Needs—is
shedding light on what communities and schools need to create healthy
environments to help children succeed. Twenty organizations (including
the UConn Rudd Center), which are improving nutrition and increasing
physical activity among children, are working together to underscore
that every child needs a healthy start, healthy schools, and healthy
communities in order to build a foundation for a healthy future. The
initiative is led by Voices for Healthy Kids.
A Campaign to Empower Moms
The You’re the Mom
campaign, developed by ChildObesity180 at the Tufts Friedman School of
Nutrition Science and Policy, empowers moms to take small steps to make
healthy eating fun and easy for their kids. It celebrates moms for the
important role they play in their families and communities, and provides
ideas and tips for making healthier choices for their kids when they
eat in restaurants. Check out this overview and find out how to bring the campaign to your own community!
America's Healthiest Schools
The Alliance for a Healthier Generation announced August 8 that it recognized 323 schools around the country as America's Healthiest Schools in 2017. These schools met rigorous criteria for
serving healthier meals and snacks, getting students moving more,
offering high-quality physical and health education, and empowering
school leaders to become healthy role models. Each recognized school
participates in Healthier Generation’s landmark Healthy Schools Program—one
of the nation’s largest school-based childhood obesity prevention
initiatives—which has worked with more than 35,000 schools serving over
20 million students since 2006.
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UConn Opens New Downtown Hartford Campus
After years of planning, the new downtown UConn Hartford campus
opened Wednesday, August 23, to the cheers of scores of onlookers who
gathered at 10 Prospect St., where the campus is anchored at the
historic Hartford Times building. “UConn Hartford is not only brick,
mortar, and steel. It is a living, breathing institution at the core of
this city,” UConn President Susan Herbst said at the dedication. “It
will be part of the backbone of Hartford: a place of learning,
engagement, and discovery, and a vibrant part of this neighborhood and
the capital city as a whole."
The Rudd Center moved to UConn, and has been in downtown Hartford, since 2015. We welcome our new UConn neighbors.
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Rudd Center Legislation Database
Our
database includes the latest legislation and policies from the
2017 state legislative and federal congressional sessions. This database
tracks state and federal policies related to access to healthy food,
breastfeeding, farms and gardens, school nutrition, physical activity,
food assistance programs, food marketing to children, menu and package
labeling, and weight bias. Check it out here and request to receive our monthly legislation email update here. |
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