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CPC Fellow Barry Popkin quoted in the NYT and The Philadelphia Inquirer reacting to calorie-listing controversy
February 19, 2008Feb 19, 2008 CPC Fellow Barry Popkin was interviewed by The New York Times and The Philadelphia Enquirer in response to the controversy generated when the president-elect of the Obesity Society filed an affidavit presenting scientific evidence that calorie labeling may not be helpful and could actually be harmful. "It might be only a scientific…
CPC Fellow Barry Popkin discusses global obesity in Scientific American
January 17, 2008Jan 17, 2008 More people in developing countries are now overweight than hungry, says CPC Fellow Barry Popkin in the September 2007 issue of Scientific American ("The World is Fat," Scientific American 297, no. 3: 88-95). More than 1.3 billion people are now overweight. Obesity rates in many developing countries are nearing the rates in…
CPC Fellow Ron Rindfuss quoted in Washington Post about new report that U.S. fertility rate is at 35-year high
December 22, 2007Dec 22, 2007 While being a mother who works outside the home is far from easy for many American women, many experts said the United States is in many ways more amenable to the practice than many other developed countries..."We also have a relatively high percentage of part-time jobs available," said Ronald Rindfuss, a sociology…
CPC Postdoctoral Scholar Kris Marsh appears as guest on WUNC’s The State of Things
December 20, 2007Dec 20, 2007 For years, social science has defined the middle-class family as a married couple, typically with children. But a new study out of UNC-Chapel Hill challenges that definition, particularly for the African-American population. Host Frank Stasio gets an update on who is achieving and maintaining middle-class status in the black community from Kris…
CPC Postdoctoral Scholar Amy Burdette’s research on religious affiliation and marital fidelity appears in news
December 7, 2007Dec 7, 2007 Where you worship - and whether you worship at all - could be connected to your likelihood of straying from your marriage vows. ..."What matters the most is being involved in a religious organization," says Amy Burdette, co-author of the study and a post-doctoral scholar at the University of North Carolina at…
CPC Fellow Ron Rindfuss comments on the environmental impact of divorce in USA Today
December 5, 2007Dec 5, 2007 Divorce isn't green, says a study being published today...While divorce leads to smaller household size on average for a population, "it's not just divorce," says social demographer Ronald Rindfuss of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who has studied the relationship between population and the environment for more than a…
CPC Fellow Barry Popkin comments on Thanksgiving weight gain in the news
November 27, 2007Nov 27, 2007 This shouldn't come as a surprise: Thanksgiving is not the green light to a six-week indulgence that precedes the waddle back to the gym Jan. 2...The holiday season that starts with Thanksgiving (or even Halloween) and ends with New Year's is a slippery slope, said Barry Popkin, who directs the University of…
CPC Fellow Barry Popkin and CPC GRA Kiyah Duffey’s research on high calorie beverages appears in N&O
November 21, 2007Nov 21, 2007 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…
CPC Fellow Walsh Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from SEDAAG
November 21, 2007Nov 21, 2007 Stephen J. Walsh, CPC Fellow and Professor of Geography at UNC-Chapel Hill, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the SouthEastern Division of the Association of American Geographers (SEDAAG). Walsh received the award on November 20th at the 2007 SEDAAG Annual Meeting held in Charleston, South Carolina. The Lifetime Achievement Award honors Walsh's…
CPC Fellow Entwisle Awarded NSF Funding to Study Marginal Populations and Environment in Thailand
November 14, 2007Nov 14, 2007 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…