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F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies are Failing in America, 2006: According to an August 2006 report from Trust for America's Health (TFAH), adult obesity rates continued to rise in 31 states over the past year while government policy efforts have consistently failed to provide viable solutions to the growing obesity crisis. Click here for the 2006 report to view recommendations and to download the report.

Center Co-Director Simone French, Ph.D., was a presenter at the December 2005 Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue entitled "Generation Excess" in Brussels, Belgium. Topics included the 'Role and responsibility of industry,' 'Creating healthy food environments', and 'Roles of economic incentives and disincentives.'

In one of the first, scientific, comprehensive, long-term studies of its kind, Mark Pereira, PhD, along with other co-investigators, linked fast-food consumption to obesity and type 2 diabetes. Study results were published in the Jan 1, 2005 issue of The Lancet. Dr. Pereira is a professor in the SPH's Divison of Epidemiology & Community Health.

Simone French, PhD, a professor in the School of Public Health's Division of Epidemiology & Community Health was selected to serve on the Institute of Medicine's Committee on the Prevention of Obesity in Children and Youth. This committee released its final report on September 30, 2004. For more information, and to read the report, click here.

Watching your waistline...during the holidays and all year long...: This article lists eating tips by provided by Allen Levine, PhD of the Department of Food Science and Nutrition.

Mary Story, PhD, a professor in the School of Public Health's Division of Epidemiology & Community Health, was selected to serve serve on the Institute of Medicine's Committee on the Effects of Food Marketing on the Diets and Health of Children and Youth in the United States. This committee released its final report on December 6, 2005. For more information, and to read the report, click here.