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CPC Fellow Barry Popkin and CPC GRA Kiyah Duffey’s research on high calorie beverages appears in N&O
It's not just sugary sodas that are adding to the obesity crisis - it's fruit
drinks, alcohol and a combination of other high-calorie beverages, say CPC
graduate research assistant Kiyah Duffey and CPC fellow Barry Popkin. The study
will be published in the forthcoming November issue of Obesity Research.
To read the article
(“High-calorie beverages add to Americans’ waistlines,” The News and Observer, November 19,
2007), click here:http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/780237....
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CPC Fellow Entwisle Awarded NSF Funding to Study Marginal Populations and Environment in Thailand
Barbara
Entwisle, CPC Director, CPC Fellow, and Professor of Sociology at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has received funding
for the research project "HSD: Marginality in a Marginal Environment:
An Agent-Based Approach to Population-Environment Relationships." This
research project will focus on the marginal populations in the Nang
Rong district of Northeast Thailand and will evaluate the impact of
weather-related events on social behavioral change and, in particular, c...
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March of Dimes honors CPC Fellow Anna Maria Siega-Riz for work in maternal-fetal nutrition
Anna Maria Siega-Riz, Ph.D., R.D., associate
professor in the departments of epidemiology and nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill’s School of Public Health and CPC Fellow, has received the March of Dimes
Agnes Higgins Award.
The annual award recognizes distinguished
achievement in research, education or clinical services in the field of
maternal-fetal nutrition. Awardees receive a $3,000 prize and the invitation to
present a lecture at the American Public Healt...
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CPC Fellow Philip Setel's work on the need for reliable vital statistics data appears in news
Many people in Africa and Asia are born and
die without leaving a trace in official records, which leaves countries
unable to track and cater to the health needs of their populations,
experts say.
In a series of articles published in the latest issue of The Lancet,
they urged governments to collect reliable data for births, deaths and
causes of death.
"If vital statistics of births and deaths are combined with accurate
cause-of-death data, their usefulness for health deci...
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CPC Fellow Adair Awarded NIH Funds to Study Prenatal Nutrition of HIV-infected Women in Malawi
Linda S. Adair,
CPC Fellow and Professor in the Department of Nutrition at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has received funding for
the project "Prenatal Nutrition and Adverse Birth Outcomes in
HIV-infected Women in Malawi." Adair will study maternal diet and
nutritional status in mid to late pregnancy among
HIV-infected women in Lilongwe, Malawi, and relate their diet and
nutritional status to birth outcomes, including low birth weight,
small-size-for-gestational age at...
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CPC Fellow Penny Gordon-Larsen's research on weight gain in the early years of marriage appears in USA Today
Young adults might want to change their wedding vows to say they are taking each other "for better or girth"..."The weight gain in this age group is frightening," says Penny Gordon-Larsen, an assistant professor of nutrition in the school of public health at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. To read the entire article (“Gain a spouse and you'll likely gain some pounds, too,” USA Today, Oct. 22, 2007), click here: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-10-22-marriage-weight_N.htmSom...
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CPC Fellow Speizer Receives Funding to Study Partner Violence Among Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ilene S. Speizer,
CPC Fellow, has been awarded funding for the research project "Partner
Violence Norms and HIV Risk Taking Among Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa."
This study uses data from more than 15 recent African Demographic and
Health Surveys to examine the association
between partner violence norms and HIV risk and preventive
behaviors of youth in Sub-Saharan Africa. Findings from this research
may be useful in developing
strategies to reduce youth violence risk and, ultimately, to st...
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CPC Fellow Rindfuss Awarded NIH Funding on Circular Migration of Young Adults in Thailand
CPC Fellow Ronald
R. Rindfuss,
Robert Paul Ziff Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has received funding for the research
project "Circular Migration and Its Long-Term Impacts." This research
project examines the determinants of patterns of young adult migration
between the Nang Rong district in Northeast Thailand and the urban
destinations of Bangkok and the Eastern Seaboard of Thailand. Funding
is provided through May 2009 by the Na...
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CPC Fellow Peggy Bentley named associate director of new Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases
The University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill has launched an Institute for Global Health and Infectious
Diseases to extend and enhance ongoing research efforts to improve the
lives of people around the world.
The institute, based in the
School of Medicine, will build on the University's current global
health presence in about 50 countries.
Myron S. Cohen, M.D., associate
vice chancellor for global health in the medical school, has been named
institute director. Cohen, th...
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CPC Selected as Study Center to Expand National Children's Study to Rockingham County, NC
The National Institutes of Health selected the Carolina
Population Center (CPC) at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill to be the study center for the National Children's Study in Rockingham
County, NC.
The National Children's Study (NCS) is an unprecedented effort to learn about
and improve children's health in the United
States. The study, which the National
Institutes of Health calls the largest of its kind ever conducted in the U.S.,
will measure the effects o...
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CPC Fellow Jay Kaufman comments on the doctor's role in health care disparities in the News and Observer
White men with heart disease are far more likely to get a simple live-saving treatment than women or black men, two new studies from Duke University show. ... "They have stereotypes about minorities and about women and about old people and young people. We all do," said Jay Kaufman, a UNC-Chapel Hill epidemiologist who studies health-care disparities. Kaufman was not involved in the defibrillator study. "It doesn't mean that physicians are bad people. But physicians are the ones who have to writ...
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CPC Fellow Richard Udry's classic research on baby boomlets appears in news
Aislyn Gleghorn, now 4 weeks old, may find she has a certain fondness for windstorms when she grows up. After all, she was conceived during the great Hanukkah Eve Wind Storm of 2006, which left more than a million Puget Sound residents without electricity — some for days. ... In 1970, J. Richard Udry, then at the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina, looked at birth numbers before and after the blackout and found no "boomlet."To read the entire article ("Did last year's wi...
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CPC Fellow Barry Popkin discusses global overweight and obesity in the news
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"It's a very different world than it was a while back," said Dr.
Barry Popkin, director of the University of North
Carolina's Interdisciplinary Obesity Center. "The bulk of the world is
fat." Even the Mediterranean diet isn't stopping Europeans' expanding
waistlines. In Italy, 42 percent of adults are
overweight and 9 percent are obese, according to the World Health Organization.
In France, 41 percent of adults are
overweight; 11 percent obese.To read the
entire article (“Obesity ...
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CPC Fellow Barry Popkin comments on bottled water in The Chicago Tribune
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"There's not a single drink out there -- from Enviga to SmartWater -- that
has any proof of impact," said nutrition professor Barry
Popkin, who directs the Interdisciplinary Center for Obesity at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. "Just
because [a nutrient] is in the product doesn't necessarily mean it will impact
you or get in your body. There are all sorts of false labels promising health
benefits.
To read the
entire article (“Bottled elixirs vs. tap . Enhanc...
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CPC Fellow Arne Kalleberg comments on working hours in the news
As Labor
Day approaches, why does it feel like we’re working harder every year? ...
Moreover, the labor force is now dominated by two-worker families, leaving less
time for child rearing and housekeeping duties that haven’t gone away. People
report working almost 10 hours more per week than their ideal, said Arne
Kalleberg, a sociology professor at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Married employees “are working three jobs — two in the workplace and one at
home,” he sa...
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CPC Fellow Lisa Pearce is quoted on youth and religion in news
Among America's young people, godliness contributes to happiness. An extensive survey by The Associated Press and MTV found that people aged 13 to 24 who describe themselves as very spiritual or religious tend to be happier than those who don't. ...Sociologists have long drawn a connection between happiness and the sense of community inherent to most religious practice. Lisa Pearce, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina, said religion could indeed contribute to ...
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CPC Fellow Peggy Bentley's research appears in The Philadelphia Inquirer
Taleah Walton entered the delivery room at Hahnemann University Hospital last month saying she planned to breast-feed. But when her son was born, she said, the hospital staff took him and fed him formula anyway. ..."They know that breast-feeding is the best," said Peggy Bentley, a nutrition professor at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.This article refers to Dr. Bentley’s 2003 Journal of Nutrition article:Bentley, Margaret E., Deborah L. Dee, and Joan L. Jensen. 2003. Breastfeedin...
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Research by CPC Fellow John M. Thorp, Jr. Reported in U.S. News and World Report
"The phenomenon of preterm birth is complex and there are probably multiple
pathways involved so, ultimately, we will probably have to have multiple
solutions," said Dr. John Thorp, a co-author on the twin study and a professor
of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill.
The article ("Progesterone Prevents Preterm Birth for Some Women:
Studies found hormone helped those with short cervix, but not those
carrying twins, triplets") appeared in the A...
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Sydney Morning Herald Reports on Research by CPC Fellow Popkin
The number of overweight people in the world overtook the number of
malnourished for the first time in 2006, according to Professor Barry Popkin,
director of the department of nutrition at the University of North
Carolina.
The article ("Overweight couples boosting obesity epidemic: study")
appears in the August 8, 2007 issue of the Sydney Morning Herald.
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CPC Fellow Kathleen Mullan Harris Elected PAA President
The Carolina Population Center is pleased to announce that Kathleen Mullan Harris, CPC Fellow and Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been elected President of the Population Association of America for 2009. ...
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CPC Fellow Barry Popkin comments on diet soda consumption in NY Times
People who drank more than one diet soda each day developed the same risks for heart disease as those who downed sugary regular soda, suggests a large but inconclusive study. ...“There’s too much contradictory evidence that shows that diet beverages are healthier for you in terms of losing weight that I would not put any credence to the result on the diet (drinks),” said Barry Popkin, of UNC Chapel Hill, who has called for cigarette-style surgeon general warnings about the negative health effect...
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CPC Fellow Barry Popkin research on overweight appears in news
The number of overweight people in the world
has overtaken the number of malnourished for the first time, with a billion
people considered heavier than advised. ..."The reality is that globally
far more obesity than under-nutrition exists," said professor Barry
Popkin.
This news item appears in “Overweight people
now outnumber the hungry” in The
Telegraph (United Kingdom), July 18, 2007. Click here for a link to the article:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/20...
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Research by CPC Fellows Carolyn Halpern and Jay Kaufman appears in news
When mothers suffer from depression, their children are more likely to develop behavioral problems -- but fathers can prevent this from happening, new research suggests. In a study that followed a large group of U.S. children over 10 years, researchers Jen Jen Chang, Carolyn Tucker Halpern and Jay S. Kaufman found that those whose mothers had depression symptoms were more likely to develop "externalizing" behavior problems, like fighting with their peers. To read the entire article (Involved dad...
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CPC Trainee Ashley Carse Awarded Fulbright Scholarship
Ashley Carse, a doctoral student in anthropology and CPC predoctoral trainee, has been awarded a
Fulbright Scholarship for 2007-2008. He will research human-environmental
problems in the Panama Canal Watershed from an ethnographic and historical
perspective.
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CPC Fellows Krista Perreira, Kathie Harris and Ken Bollen receive publication award
Congratulations to CPC fellows Krista Perreira, Kathie Harris, and Ken Bollen whose publication "What Are We Measuring? An Evaluation of the CES-D across Race/Ethnicity and Immigrant Generation" has been selected as an honorable mention in the best publication category in the sociology of mental health from the Mental Heath Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA). The award will be presented at the ASA conference in August.The full reference for the article follows:Perreira, Krist...
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