May 5, 2006 “It makes it seem like they care about child obesity,” said Barry Popkin, a professor of nutrition at the UNC School of Public Health who has helped develop guidelines for healthy drinking. Popkin said that drinks are … Read more

May 3, 2006 “For many households across Southern California that depend on domestic workers, Monday was the usual day with immigrants. … Of these Southern California workers, nearly 80% of the nannies are Latino,” said Philip Cohen, sociology professor at … Read more

Apr 25, 2006 ”We already know that it’s important for kids to be physically active in order to protect against being overweight and developing future cardiovascular disease,” said Penny Gordon-Larsen, Ph.D., study co-author and assistant professor of nutrition at the … Read more

Apr 25, 2006 “Teens are defaulting to entertainment media for sexual information because they are not getting this information in other places,” said Dr. Jane D. Brown, a professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University … Read more

Apr 25, 2006 You are what you eat, you’ve no doubt heard. But, increasingly, we are what we drink: By 2001, soda, juice, milk, beer and other beverages accounted for 21% of the calories consumed by Americans, up from 16% … Read more

Apr 5, 2006 Dr. Alejandro Portes, Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Migration and Development at Princeton University, will be presenting: “The New Latin Nation: Immigration and the Hispanic Community of … Read more

Apr 3, 2006 Intergenerational dependent care will be the focus of Penn State’s 14th annual Symposium on Family Issues, October 5-6, 2006.   “Caring and Exchange Within and Across Generations” will be addressed by 16 of the top scholars in … Read more

Mar 3, 2006 Users of data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) are invited to submit abstracts for the seventh Add Health Users Conference, to be held July 17-18, 2006, in Bethesda, Maryland. The conference is … Read more

Jan 25, 2006 Data collection for the second wave of the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR) is now complete.  This longitudinal extension of the NSYR is funded by a three-year $1,101,092 grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. awarded to … Read more

Jan 25, 2006 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services NIH News National Institutes of Health National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) http://www.nichd.nih.gov For Immediate Release January 11, 2006 CONTACTS: Robert Bock or Marianne Glass Miller bockr@mail.nih.gov … Read more