Feb 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 … Read more

Jan 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 … Read more

Dec 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 … Read more

Dec 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 … Read more

Dec 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, … Read more

Dec 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 … Read more

Nov 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 … Read more

Nov 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 … Read more

Nov 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 … Read more

Nov 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 … Read more