Faculty in this core focus on physical activity and healthy eating behaviors, environments, and policies to ensure all children and families are enabled to eat healthfully and be physically active.
Six bad excuses for overeating
OSU researcher Melinda Manore, who is involved with The WAVE~Ripples for Change: Obesity Prevention for Active Youth in Afterschool Programs Using Virtual-and-Real-World Experiential Learning housed at the Hallie E. Ford Center for Healthy Children and Families, advises about the best kinds of foods to eat when serotonin levels are low and the body is craving not-so-healthy foods.
OSU receives $4.7 million grant for obesity study
Nutrition specialists say the real challenge is getting teens to make the necessary lifestyle changes as they become young adults. ”If they do go to the fast food restaurant how do they make better choices even if other people aren’t,” says Melinda Manore, a Professor of Nutrition at OSU.
Weighty Matters: More children obese in rural areas
Children living in rural areas are at a 20 to 50 percent higher risk of being overweight or obese, and researchers at the Oregon State University Extension Service are about to launch a three-year program to find out why and figure out ways to change it.
Healthy kids make good students
Estacada will become one of several testing grounds over the next three years as the Oregon State University Extension Service works to de-code how local communities influence child health and wellness.
Childhood obesity gets a head start in the womb, then continues with lifestyle
Roughly 20 percent of grade-school kids in the U.S. are obese - triple the rate in 1980. The cause of this epidemic may seem obvious. Children are eating too much high-calorie junk food, exercising too little and putting on excess pounds
Parent's perceptions of their child's competence linked to physical activity
According to a new study, there is no direct link between parents’ own level of physical activity, and how much their child may exercise. In fact, parents’ perceptions of their children’s athleticism are what have a direct impact on the children’s activity.
Oregon could set standards for diet and exercise at day care centers
With children joining the ranks of the overweight and obese before they're old enough to recite the alphabet, public health and child advocates say it's time working parents across Oregon wonder whether day cares should shoulder some of the responsibility.