Rudd Center in the News
Selected Articles
Small Changes Steer Kids Toward Smarter School Lunch Choices
With the spotlight on childhood obesity, schools across the country are looking for ways to get kids to eat more fruits and vegetables. In 2007, Marlene Schwartz, Rudd Center Deputy Director, created a study in which cafeteria workers at one school asked each student whether they would like to add fruit or fruit juice to their lunch. Ninety percent of students took the fruit or juice, and 70 percent consumed it. In the school with no verbal prompting, 60 percent of students took fruit or juice, and 40 percent consumed it.
By Jane Black
The Washington Post
Dieting Like it's Your Job: Does Paying for Healthy Habits Work?
Kelly Brownell, Rudd Center Director, comments on employers' offers of financial incentives for employee weight loss.
By Mike Stobbe
USA Today
When Parents' Good Intentions Disparage Obese Children
Obese children are 65 percent more likely to be bullied than their peers of normal weight, according to a study published in Pediatrics. Rebecca Puhl, Rudd Center Director of Research and Weight Stigma Initiatives, comments on weight bias towards childnre.
By Madison Park
CNN
Re-Examining the Media's Images of Overweight People
Rebecca Puhl, Rudd Center Director of Research and Weight Stigma Initiatives, challenges "weight-based stereotypes" in the media.
By Mark Herz
WSHU Public Radio
Step Away From the Coke Machine
With obesity an acknowledged national problem, the notion of taxing junk food doesn't seem as radical as it did 15 years ago. These days Kelly D. Brownell, Rudd Center Director, is focusing his efforts on sugary drinks, which he contends are a significant contributor to obesity. And more than a dozen cities and states, including New York and California, are considering so-called soda taxes.
By Tom Bartlett
The Chronicle of Higher Education
A New Tax on Soda Bubbles Up Across the Country
Kelly D. Brownell, Rudd Center Director, is quoted in this Fiscal Times review of sugar-sweetened beverage taxes and the beverage industry's lobbying efforts. “It’s just a matter of time until these taxes happen. Once one state does it, others will follow,” Dr. Brownell said.
By Michelle Hirsch
The Fiscal Times
For Obese People, Prejudice in Plain Sight
In this essay on weight bias and discrimination, Rudd Center Director of Research, Rebecca Puhl, discusses her work on weight discrimination in health care settings.
By Harriet Brown
New York Times
How to Tackle the Childhood Obesity Epidemic
The penny per ounce tax on sugar-sweetened beverages is one of several potential solutions to the obesity epidemic explored in this Newsweek feature article. Rudd Center Director, Kelly D. Brownell, weighed in on the discussion, and suggested that food industry self-regulation is not an effective approach: "Industry says you don't need to regulate us; we'll police ourselves. The tobacco industry abused that with God knows how many lives as a consequence. To expect the food industry to be different may be wishful thinking."
By Claudia Kalb
Newsweek
Does Menu Labeling Affect Diners?
Rudd Center Director, Kelly D. Brownell, discusses menu labeling and the importance of using reference points: "It occurred to me that people may not know what calories mean. If a burger is 800 calories, is that a lot or a little? We thought that if we provided some reference points, it might make a huge difference."
By Jeannine Stein
Los Angeles Times
Soda: A Sin We Sip Instead of Smoke?
Is soda the new tobacco? Mark Bittman considers this question in the review pages of the Sunday New York Times. He explores the obesity epidemic and how health experts and business leaders view the soda tax proposal. Rudd Center Director, Kelly D. Brownell, was quoted in the piece: “...the revenue, could be used to subsidize fruits and vegetables, fund obesity prevention programs for children and home economic classes in schools, and more.”
By Mark Bittman
New York Times
Michelle Obama Launches Anti-Obesity Program
The first lady's public-awareness campaign is aimed at getting children to eat better and exercise more. Food and beverage groups pledge to improve calorie labeling and cut fat. Rudd Center Director, Kelly D. Brownell says the program is a "breakthrough" and observed: "This, combined with a building wave of actions at state and local levels, signals that profound change is on the way."
By Katherine Skiba
Los Angeles Times
Fed Up With Fat and Saying Something About It
As obesity rates rise alongside healthcare costs, slimmer people are saying enough already. Dr. Rebecca Puhl, Director of Research and Weight Stigma Initiatives at the Rudd Center, discusses the increase in weight discrimination in the United States over the last decade.
By Marni Jameson
Los Angeles Times
Pact to Limit Sugary Cereals to Kids Not Worth its Salt
Despite a historic pledge by more than a dozen major food companies to advertise healthier food to children, the least nutritious cereals are still the ones most aggressively marketed to kids. In this Chicago Tribune story, Rudd Center Director of Marketing, Jennifer Harris, discusses this issue and touches on recent findings from the Cereal FACTS report.
By Julie Deardorff
Chicago Tribune
U.S. Schools' War Against Chocolate Milk
Rudd Center Deputy Director, Marlene Schwartz, discusses the dairy industry's "Raise Your Hand for Chocolate Milk" campaign, and the implications of chocolate milk being so widely available in schools for children and their health.
By Gilbert Cruz
Time
Economist Debates: Food Policy
Should governments play a stronger role in guiding food and nutrition choices? The Economist's latest debate takes up this contentious question with the following proposition: This house believes that governments should play a stronger role in guiding food and nutrition choices. Rudd Center Director, Kelly D. Brownell defends the motion.
By The Economist
economist.com
Chicago Public Schools Breakfasts are Big on Doughnuts, Sugary Cereals
This year for the first time, the Chicago Public Schools are offering free universal breakfast to nearly every student, which is happy news for those who have urged schools to expand breakfast programs. Research has shown kids learn better when their stomachs aren't empty. But some nutrition experts warn that the sugary processed foods city schools feed to children are setting them up for unhealthy habits and other problems. Rudd Center Director, Kelly D. Brownell, was interviewed for the piece.
By Monica Eng
Chicago Tribune, 2009
Bias and Stigma Weigh Heavily on Efforts to Overcome Obesity
Rebecca Puhl wrote the guest editorial for Fall issue of Conduit Magazine, the Canadian Obesity Network's quarterly publication. This issue also features a discussion of weight bias and discrimination, and touches on the Rudd Center's work in this area.
By Rebecca Puhl
Conduit Magazine, 2009
Cereals Marketed to Children are Least Healthy
Not enough is being done to keep kids away from those unhealthy bowls of sugary goodness, according to a study that the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity released Monday. The study found that the least nutritious cereals are those whose advertisements most aggressively target children. Reese’s Puffs, Corn Pops and Lucky Charms were the cereals researchers found to be the least nutritious.
By Camille Lawhead
Yale Daily News, 2009
Study slams industry-regulated marketing of kids’ cereals
Industry regulation of which cereals are marketed to children allows the least healthy products to be advertised most aggressively, according to a study from Yale’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity.
By Caroline Scott-Thomas
Food Navigator, 2009
Kids' Cereals: 85% More Sugar, 65% Less Fiber than Adults'
A new study confirms what savvy consumers have long suspected: Most breakfast cereals advertised to kids are chockfull of sugar and low on fiber.
By Nanci Hellmich
USA Today, 2009
Sweet Spot: How Sugary Cereal Makers Target Kids
Before food politics became a Wikipedia entry and the title of a book, before anyone cared about trans fat or realized we were in the midst of a pediatric-obesity epidemic, Lucky Charms were simply magically delicious. Now the cereal, along with other childhood favorites like Corn Pops and Cocoa Pebbles, is being labeled a public-health menace by health researchers at Yale University.
By Bonnie Rochman
Time, 2009
Can We Fight Obesity by Slapping a Heavy Tax on Soda?
The solution to America's ballooning obesity epidemic lies not in weight-loss counseling or programs to make people more physically active, Kelly D. Brownell, Director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University, has come to believe. He argues we need to shift the economic balance between healthful and unhealthful foods, to curtail the all-pervasive marketing of junk food - and to tax soda.
By Jennifer LaRue Huget
The Washington Post, 2009
Why Exercise Won't Make You Thin
In a discussion on the role exercise plays in weight loss, Rudd Center Director Kelly D. Brownell expands on his experience treating obese patients.
By John Cloud
Time, 2009
Why Are We So fat?
The Rudd Center's work on weight bias is mentioned in Elizabeth Kolbert's examination of books and research published on the global obesity epidemic.
By Elizabeth Kolbert
The New Yorker, 2009
Snack Ads Spur Children to Eat More
An experiment involving children ages 7 to 11, each given a bowl of Goldfish crackers, found that children who saw food ads on television ate 45-percent more than those who saw ads for games and entertainment. These results led researchers from the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale to suggest there is “a direct causal link between food advertising and greater snack consumption.”
By Alex Mindlin
New York Times, 2009
Do the Numbers Behind Calorie Counts Add Up?
The Numbers Guy, Carl Bialik, examines numbers in the news, business, and politics. Some numbers are flat-out wrong or biased, while others are valid and help us make informed decisions. Bialik explores nutritional labels on menus at restaurant chains.
By Carl Bialik
The Wall Street Journal Blogs, 2009
For a Frugal Dieter, Weight Loss On a Sliding Scale
Every year consumers spend billions of dollars on supplements, diet foods, books, and meal replacements. But the truth is that success depends not so much on what diet plan you choose or what program you join. “What matters most is your level of motivation and your willingness to change,” says Kelly D. Brownell, Director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University.
By Lesley Alderman
New York Times, 2009
Healthcare Providers are Guilty of Weight Bias
Weight bias has become increasingly common among healthcare providers in recent years. In a 2006 survey conducted by the Rudd Center, 69 percent of overweight and obese women said doctors were a source of weight stigma in their lives, and nearly half said they had experienced weight bias from a nurse.
By Jim Kerr
Advance for Nurses, 2009
Bingeing on Celebrity Weight Battles
The public has become the official weight watcher, checking the cellulite and food choices of the famous with a “gotcha” zeal. These celebrity stories can be counterproductive: health experts say that many famous dieters flaunt weight-loss goals that are unrealistic for most obese women. Rebecca Puhl comments on the influential role celebrities play in shaping public perception of obesity.
By Jan Hoffman
New York Times, 2009
Sodas a Tempting Tax Target
The New York Times comments on the New England Journal of Medicine article advocating for a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages by Thomas Frieden and Kelly Brownell. Frieden, the New York City Health Commissioner, was appointed by President Obama to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Obama advisers and some Senate staff members have been talking about such a tax — which wouldn’t apply to diet soda or real juice — as a way to help pay for expanded health insurance.
By David Leonhardt
New York Times, 2009
Has pop gone flat?
The battle to improve Americans' health is zeroing in on a new target: pop. Soda drinkers haven't achieved pariah status like smokers before them, but proposed sugar taxes and social pressure to be healthy can put a damper on “doing the Dew.”
By Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz
Chicago Tribune, 2009
10 Ways to Create a Healthy Food Environment at Home
Make a healthy food environment in your home the default option by following these ten steps.
By Gabrielle Grode and Kathryn Henderson
Weight Loss Success Lifestyles, 2009
Obesity Becoming U.S. Civil Rights Issue For Some
Kate Harding has spent most of her life on one diet or another, losing weight but always gaining it back. Determined to improve her quality of life, she joined a fast-growing group of anti-dieting activists promoting overweight people's civil rights.
Rebecca Puhl comments on the pervasiveness of weight discrimination today.
By Reuters
Reuters, 2009
Airlines Put Squeeze On Fat Fliers
United Airlines is the latest carrier to penalize overweight passengers, by charging them for two seats if they can't fit comfortably into one and there are no other seats available. Rebecca Puhl comments on this story.
By CBS News
CBS Early Show, 2009
A Novel Cure for Obesity: Tax Sugary Sodas
Citing research that shows drinking sugar-sweetened beverages is helping fuel the obesity epidemic, Kelly Brownell and New York City Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden argue for taxing sugared beverages in the April 30 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
By Katherine Hobson
U.S. News & World Report, 2009
Food Industry Pursues the Strategy of Big Tobacco
Kelly Brownell has long studied the relationship between rising levels of obesity in the U.S. and the way our food is grown, processed, packaged, and sold. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, he discusses the common marketing and lobbying tactics employed by the food and tobacco industries.
By Yale Environment 360
Yale Environment 360, 2009
Is Your Toddler Overweight? Tips to Monitor Children's Growth
Dr. Kathy Henderson, Director of School and Community Initiatives, discusses signs of overweight in young children, and recommends safe, practical solutions to encourage a healthier environment.
By Katherine Bontrager
iParenting, 2009
Proximity to Fast Food a Factor in Student Obesity
Ninth graders attending a school a block or less from a fast food restaurant are more likely to be obese than those whose schools are at least a quarter mile away, according to researchers at the University of California and Columbia University. Kelly Brownell recommends instituting zoning laws to ban fast food restaurants from opening near schools.
By Roni Caryn Rabin
New York Times, 2009
If Diets Don't Work, What's the Solution to Obesity in America?
Some, such as Marlene Schwartz, believe it's time to focus on the environment instead of the individual, when it comes to helping people lose weight and live healthy.
By Katherine Hobson
US News and World Report, 2009
A Wake Up Call for Dietitians About the Obese
A new study, led by Rebecca Puhl, shows that even dietitians show bias against obese men and women.
By Jeannine Stein
LA Times, 2009
It's Not What You Eat, It's How Much
Marlene Schwartz comments on a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study states that consistently reducing total calories is more important in losing weight than restricting calories from fat, protein, or carbohydrates.
By Radha Chitale
ABC News, 2009
Taxing the Rich—Foods, That Is
Taxes on junk food, once thought extreme, are gaining popularity because of increasing obesity rates and related costs to employers. Successful tobacco taxes are cited as evidence of behavior change from additional product costs. Kelly Brownell comments on the popularity of soda taxes.
By Catherine Arnst
Business Week, 2009
Understanding & Improving the School Environment: Taking Nutrition and Physical Activity into your Own Hands
Improve students' nutrition and physical activity by joining your school wellness council.
By Gabrielle Grode and Kathryn Henderson
Weight Loss Success Lifestyles, 2008
At McDonald’s, the Happiest Meal Is Hot Profits
Why has McDonald's managed to sustain its momentum even as the economy and the restaurant industry as a whole are struggling.
By Andrew Martin
The New York Times, 2009
Bored to Eat
Marlene Schwartz explains the best tips to curb your "bored" snack cravings.
By Cheryl Brody
Cosmo Girl, 2009
Bake Sales Fall Victim to Push for Healthier Foods
Fundraisers and bake sales are being reevaluated.
By Patricia Leigh Brown
The New York Times, 2008
TV Ads Contribute to Childhood Obesity, Economists Say
A new study in the Journal of Law and Economics has shown a causal relationship between children’s time spent watching fast food advertisements and obesity.
By Roni Caryn Rabin
The New York Times, 2008
Mandating Calorie Counts on Menus Nationwide
Would a national law requiring calorie counts on chain restaurant menus help curb the obesity epidemic, or would we stay in 'Dining Denial'?
By Karen Springen
Newsweek, 2008
Interest in Dieting Slims Down
Although obesity is more prevalent than ever before, the number of people on a diet in the United States is the lowest it has been in more than two decades, according to a survey by The NPD Group titled "The Annual Report on Eating Patterns in America."
By Beth Teitell
The Boston Globe, 2008
How Whole Is Whole Grain?
Many consumers are unable to distinguish between whole grain foods and those made with white flour. Clearer and more accurate food labels may result from a settlement between Sara Lee and the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
By Pallavi Gogoi
Business Week, 2008
Fit at Any Size
Children and teenagers may be physically fit - or out of shape - regardless of whether they are slim or overweight.
By Kathleen Kingsbury
Time Magazine, 2008
Like Smoking, Like Obesity?
Could strategies from the country's decades-long campaign against cigarette smoking provide a blueprint for initiatives to curb obesity?
By Katherine Hobson
The Washington Post, 2008
Can Blaming People for Being Fat Help Curb Obesity?
Does weight stigma encourage overweight or obese people to lead healthier lives, or does it promote unhealthy behaviors and reinforce the prevalence of obesity?
By Katherine Hobson
U.S. News & World Report, 2008
This is Your Brain on Food
Nora Volkow, Keynote Speaker at the Rudd Center’s Food & Addiction Conference, discusses how the brain behaves when people engage in compulsive eating and drug abuse.
By Kristin Leutwyler Ozelli
Scientific American, 2007
How Hectoring Backfires
Stigmatizing obese children tends only to exacerbate poor diet and unhealthy eating behaviors.
The Globe and Mail, 2007
Taunting May Affect Health of Obese Youths
Children taunted for their weight are more prone to suicidal thoughts, eating disorders, and high blood pressure.
By Stephen Smith
The Boston Globe, 2007
Does Food ‘Addiction’ Explain Explosion of Obesity?
The Rudd Center holds historic meeting on the connection between food and dependence.
By Nanci Hellmich
USA Today, 2007
Battling America’s Obesity Epidemic
Kelly Brownell is named one of the most influential people in the world by Time magazine.
By Mike Huckabee
Time, 2006
Selected Editorials
Chocolate Formula: Baby Doesn't Know Best
By Kelly D. Brownell and Mary Story
The Atlantic, 2010
Obesity Penalty Isn't Fair or Effective
By Rebecca Puhl
New Observer, 2009
The Soda-Tax Solution
By Kelly D. Brownell and David S. Ludwig
LA Times, 2009
Taxing Sugared Beverages: Good for Health or Too Much Big Brother?
By Kelly D. Brownell
ABC News, 2009
Want a Healthier State? Save Gov. Paterson's Tax on Sugar Soda
By Kelly D. Brownell
New York Daily News 2009
We Need to Know What We Ingest
By Kelly D. Brownell and Roberta Friedman
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2009
Should Government Tell You What To Eat?
By Kelly D. Brownell
Forum, 2007
Wrong Way to Fight Fat
By Rebecca Puhl and Kelly D. Brownell
The Washington Post, 2006
Choose to Remove Trans Fats
By Kelly D. Brownell and Walter C. Willett
San Francisco Chronicle, 2007
Media Clips
Childhood Obesity in the U.S.: Out of Control?
What can be done about the childhood obesity epidemic in America, with Kelly D. Brownell, Rudd Center Director.
By On Point
NPR
Government-Obesity Connection
The importance of government regulation in the obesity epidemic, with Marlene Schwartz, Rudd Center Deputy Director.
By The Daily Show
The Daily Show
TV Diet
A new study shows that a diet of food advertised on television would have 25 times the recommended servings of sugar and 20 times that of fat. Jennifer Harris, Rudd Center Director of Marketing Initiatives, comments on the study and government's role in regulating food advertising.
By Good Morning America Health
ABC News
Selling Junk Food to Kids
Debate whether marketing high-fat foods and sugary snacks to children is actually contributing to childhood obesity, with Jennifer Pomeranz, Rudd Center Director of Legal Initiatives.
By CNBC
CNBC
Soda In America: Taxes And A Debate Over Health
For decades, Americans have been huge consumers of soda. Kelly D. Brownell, Rudd Center Director, comments on the benefits of a soda tax.
By All Things Considered
NPR
Food and Addiction
What environmental factors contribute to obesity? Kelly D. Brownell, Rudd Center Director, explores causes and prevention of obesity and other nutrition problems. He integrates information from many disciplines and specialties ranging from the basic physiology of body weight regulation to world politics and legislation affecting issues such as agriculture subsidies and international trade policies.
By University of California Television
YouTube
Sole Full-Service Supermarket in Downtown New Haven Closes
Shaw's supermarket chain is closing its 18 Connecticut stores. One of them is in New Haven. Locals say it's a big loss of convenience, of good food, and of jobs. WSHU's Mark Herz reports on the importance of an urban supermarket, and sought expert opinion from Rudd Center Director of Public Policy, Roberta Friedman.
By Mark Herz
WSHU Public Radio Group
New Trend Shows Kids Snacking Every Few Hours
Marlene Schwartz, Rudd Center Deputy Director, comments on new data that show that childhood snacking trends are moving toward three snacks per day as compared with 30 years ago, when children ate an average of fewer than two snacks a day. These findings come from a national survey that included over 31,000 children and adolescents, ages 2 to 18.
By Allison Aubrey
NPR
Where America Stands on Obesity
In this CBS News report Kelly D. Brownell discusses America's obesity epidemic with reporter Seth Doane. Taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages are also discussed as a potential solution.
By Seth Doane
CBS News
Experts Sound Off on Cereal
The cereal giant General Mills has announced it will cut back the amount of sugar in 10 popular kids' cereals to single-digit grams of sugar per serving. "This is a historic announcement -- it comes on the heels of an investigation by the Connecticut attorney general and the FDA of the 'Smart Choices' program and our own Cereal Report," Rudd Center Director, Kelly D. Brownell, said.
By Dan Childs
ABC Good Morning America
Fast Food Lobbying
The food and beverage industry is spending millions lobbying Capitol Hill. Kelly D. Brownell talks to CNN reporter Louise Schiavone.
By CNN
CNN.com
A Box a Day? Critics Blast Cereal Immunity Claims
The Today Show reviews cereal marketing practices to children and gets expert opinion from Kelly D. Brownell, who was interviewed for the segment. Cereal FACTS findings were also reported.
By The Today Show
MSNBC, 2009
Kellogg's Immunity Claims Draw Fire
Rudd Center Director, Kelly D. Brownell, discusses Kellogg Cereal immunity claims on CBS' The Early Show. "It simply defies logic to think that spraying on some vitamins and minerals to a cereal that's otherwise almost 40 percent of its weight in sugar makes a healthy product. It just doesn't add up," he said.
By The Early Show
CBS, 2009
Study: Many Cereals Have Way Too Much Sugar
If breakfast is the most important meal of the day, children's cereal may not be worth the time it takes to pour it. A study from Yale University takes a close look at all those cereals aimed at children and finds they contain too much sugar and too little fiber.
By Dr. Dave Hnida
CBS Denver, 2009
Study: Least Healthy Cereals Most Marketed to Children
This Good Morning America exclusive features interview highlights with Rudd Center Director, Kelly D. Brownell and Cereal FACTS report findings are discussed.
By Dan Harris, Joel Siegel, and Suzanne Yeo
ABC Good Morning America, 2009
Report: Least Nutritious Cereals Marketed at Kids
There is a new reason to doubt the truth in labeling of cereal for children. Yale researchers say kids are spoon-fed a steady diet of advertising to make them want cereal that satisfies their sweet tooth, but doesn't make a good meal.
NECN.com, 2009
Marketing Unhealthy Cereal to Kids
Cereal FACTS findings are discussed on Good Morning America. Rudd Center Director, Kelly D. Brownell is featured in the segment.
By ABC Good Morning America
ABC, 2009
Study: Least Healthy Cereals Sold to Kids
Key Cereal FACTS findings are highlighted in this ABC exclusive. Kelly D. Brownell talks about food industry marketing practices and the failure of self-regulatory pledges.
By ABC World News
ABC, 2009
FDA Says Nutrition Labels May Be Misleading
Rudd Center Director, Kelly D. Brownell discusses misleading nutrition labels and the FDA's plan to address this issue.
By wtop.com
WTOP, 2009
PETA Billboard Outrage
Rebecca Puhl talks about the new PETA "save the whales" campaign, and how it simply further stigmatizes overweight and obese individuals.
By Montel Williams of "Montel Across America"
Air America Media, 2009
Fat People Need Not Apply?
Rebecca Puhl argues weight stigma is not an effective means to address the obesity epidemic. This was part of a larger discussion surrounding recent comments made by Dr. Toby Cosgrove of the Cleveland Clinic and the new anti-obesity PETA campaign.
By Dr. Nancy Snyderman of "Dr. Nancy"
MSNBC, 2009
Soda Tax: Sweet or Stupid?
Kelly Brownell discusses the proposed tax on sugar-sweetened beverages and the significant impact said tax could have on rates of childhood obesity.
By Erin Burnett of "Street Signs"
CNBC, 2009
Tax Sugary Sodas to Combat Obesity?
Kelly Brownell urges Congress to institute a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages.
By Nancy Cordes
CBS Evening News, 2009
The Argument for a Soda Tax
Kelly Brownell advocates for a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages.
By Larry Kaskel, MD
ReachMD, 2009
Fat Acceptance: 'Young, Fat and Fabulous' Say No to Yo-Yo Diets
Rebecca Puhl comments on yo-yo dieting and weight acceptance.
By Mary Pflum
Good Morning America, 2009
Mississippi's Still Fattest but Alabama Closing In
Kelly Brownell discusses regulating food advertising to children.
By ABC
World News with Charles Gibson, 2009
Counting Calories Could Become Easier in Connecticut
Kelly Brownell advocates for menu labeling in Connecticut.
By Brian Burnell
New England Cable News
The Conversation
Kelly Brownell discusses his proposal with New York City Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden about a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages.
By Ross Reynolds
National Public Radio Seattle, 2009
Should the Government Tax Your Soft Drink?
Kelly Brownell argues for taxing sugared beverages.
By ABC
World News with Charles Gibson, 2009
The Impact Series: Obesity: The High Cost of a Fat Future
Marlene Schwartz is a panelist on the live, interactive, one-hour town meeting the epidemic level of obesity in Connecticut.
By Diane Smith
Connecticut Public Television, 2009
Fighting The Fat
Kathy Henderson and other health care experts and school administrators, discuss the treatment, prevention, and reversal of childhood obesity.
By Stephanie Valickis
CrossRoads Magazine, 2009
Cut the Trans Fats
New York City is banning trans fats from their restaurants.
On Point with Tom Ashbrook
National Public Radio, 2006
