Health
Care is the secret ingredient in school lunch programs
"Now you just have to starve," a student told us bluntly when we asked about their new school lunch program.
Oct 14, 2020
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News tagged with food policy
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
As New Yorkers prepare to vote, COVID-19 stays top-of-mind
Nearly three quarters (72%) of New York City residents believe that it is likely or very likely that there will be another surge of COVID-19 cases similar to the height of the pandemic last April. Despite this somber expectation, ...
Oct 14, 2020
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Health
Nearly 20 percent of Americans don't have enough to eat
More than 18 percent of U.S. adults do not know whether they will have enough to eat from day to day, and the numbers are worse for Hispanics, Blacks, people with obesity, and women, a new report shows.
Sep 22, 2020
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Health
COIVD-19: A barometer for social justice in New York City
In an editorial for the American Journal of Public Health, faculty from the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH) led by Dean Ayman El-Mohandes highlight the long-standing public health-related ...
Sep 11, 2020
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Health
Industry 'leveraging pandemic' to peddle unhealthy products: NGOs
Food and drink producers are leveraging the coronavirus pandemic to push unhealthy products such as alcohol, sugar-laden soft drinks and fatty fast food on consumers, an international coalition of health charities said Thursday.
Sep 10, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
COVID-19 deaths among black essential workers linked to racial disparities
Racial disparities among essential workers could be a key reason that Black Americans are more likely than whites to contract and die of COVID-19, according to researchers at the University of Utah. They found that Blacks ...
Sep 8, 2020
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Overweight & Obesity
Obesity strategy: Policies placing responsibility on individuals don't work
The government has recently announced a strategy aimed at reducing obesity in the UK. It will introduce a ban on unhealthy food advertisements on TV before a certain hour, end "buy one, get one free" junk food deals, and ...
Aug 19, 2020
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Health
Fast food makes an unhealthy comeback among kids
(HealthDay)—After a period of improvement, U.S. kids are eating as much fast food as they were in the early 2000s, new government figures show.
Aug 14, 2020
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Pediatrics
Public health, nutrition experts call on companies to stop misleading labeling of 'toddler milks'
On Tuesday, July 28, leading nutrition experts, child health organizations and advocates, and researchers—including the UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity—petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to establish ...
Jul 28, 2020
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Pediatrics
Parents' pandemic-induced stress can do long-term harm to children, says expert
The COVID-19 pandemic, which has accentuated long-standing challenges many families face, has put additional stress on parents that could harm the development of their children, according to a new brief from Rice University's ...
Jul 7, 2020
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