The Rudd Center in the News
Select Articles
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
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
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
How Hectoring Backfires
Stigmatizing obese children tends only to exacerbate poor diet and unhealthy
eating behaviors..
The
Globe and Mail, 2007
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
Battling America’s Obesity Epidemic
Rudd Center Director Kelly Brownell is named one of the most influential people in the worldby Time magazine.
By Mike Huckabee
Time, 2006
Select Editorials
Should Government Tell You What To Eat?
By Kelly D. Brownell
Forum,
2007
Choose to Remove Trans Fats
By Kelly D. Brownell and Walter C. Willett
San
Francisco Chronicle, 2007
Wrong Way to Fight Fat
By Rebecca Puhl and Kelly Brownell
The
Washington Post, 2006
Media Clips
Cut the Trans Fats
New York City is banning trans fats from their restaurants.
On Point with Tom Ashbrook
National
Public Radio, 2006