Beverage companies spent $866 million to advertise unhealthy drinks in 2013, and children and teens remained key target audiences for that advertising, according to a new report released today by the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity. The...
Obesity is associated with significant increases in absenteeism among American workers and costs the nation over $8 billion per year in lost productivity, according to a study recently published by Rudd Center researchers. The study suggests that the...
Exposure to weight stigma causes physiological stress in both overweight and lean women, according to a study by researchers at the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity.
The study, titled “The Stress of Stigma: Exploring the Effect of Weight Stigma...
Parents, both with and without overweight children, are concerned about weight-based bullying and are in favor of a range of policy initiatives to address the issue, according to two new studies published this month by researchers at the Yale Rudd Center....