News
CPC Fellow Laraia Receives Funds for Food Security and Feeding Strategies Project
October 26, 2006Oct 26, 2006 CPC Fellow Barbara Laraia has been awarded funding for the Food Security and Feeding Strategies project which will identify modifiable risk factors associated with household food insecurity to inform intervention strategies to prevent overweight. The project is … Read more
CPC Fellow Penny Gordon-Larsen’s research on the benefits of walking appears in USA Today
October 25, 2006Oct 25, 2006 Penny Gordon-Larsen, an assistant professor of nutrition at North Carolina, analyzed data on 5,000 young adults over 15 years. She found that a slightly overweight woman who walked two extra hours each week over 15 years gained … Read more
CPC Fellow Kathie Harris quoted in news item about blogs for dads
October 11, 2006Oct 11, 2006 Kathleen Mullan Harris, a sociology professor at UNC Chapel Hill, said changes in social structures over the years have allowed dads to take on new roles. They’re now able to develop into more available, emotional and compassionate … Read more
CPC Postdoc Kuo-Ping Li discusses air quality and lung cancer, Friday, October 13
October 6, 2006Oct 6, 2006 Dr. Kuo-Ping Li, Physicist and CPC Postdoctoral Scholar, will present Local Air Quality and Lung Cancer Mortality Rates: A Case of Spatial Smoothing on Friday, October 13 in Room 405 CPC East. Location information is available at … Read more
CPC Fellow Jane Brown talks to NBC news about children’s TV habits
October 4, 2006Oct 4, 2006 University of North Carolina media researcher Dr. Jane Brown notes that too many children are left in front of the screen – unsupervised, “Talk about it as parents today need to be thinking about their children’s media … Read more
Fellows Guo’s and Harris’s research on immigrant children featured in news
September 22, 2006Sep 22, 2006 Immigrant children do as well or better than their same-race, American-born counterparts, according to a U.S. study… “The findings also run counter to expectations based upon immigrant children’s over-representation in high-risk background categories and general public perceptions … Read more
Reuters highlights CPC Fellow Hussey’s research on child maltreatment
September 7, 2006Sep 7, 2006 A substantial percentage of young U.S. adults say they suffered some form of neglect or abuse as children, researchers reported Tuesday…. The findings, published in the journal Pediatrics, suggest that child maltreatment — in the form of … Read more
CBS News interviews CPC Fellow Barry Popkin about healthy eating for teens
September 5, 2006Sep 5, 2006 “It’s not too late to make an impact,” said Barry Popkin, director of the Interdisciplinary Obesity Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “Whether it’s better to do earlier or later, we can’t answer.” … Read more
CPC Fellow Barry Popkin quoted in News and Observer
August 31, 2006Aug 31, 2006 A national report Tuesday fingered North Carolina as one of 31 states where residents are getting rounder — the same day state officials launched an ambitious but unfunded new strategy to turn the tide…. Barry Popkin, a … Read more
CPC Fellow Barry Popkin cited in NY Times article about milk consumption
August 31, 2006Aug 31, 2006 FACED with declining milk consumption by teenagers, dairy companies are embarking on an advertising campaign with sports and entertainment celebrities and interactive features that they hope will win young people over. A number of doctors and nutrition … Read more