Proyectos
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Center
for Weight and Health. Projects
- California Obesity Prevention Initiative
(COPI)
Project Dates: 1/2/00-9/30/04
Funded By: California Department of Health
Services
Collaborating with the California Department
of Health Services to design the intervention
and lead the evaluation of a CDC initiative
to prevent obesity among children in California.
Pilot testing of an innovative strategy
to reduce TV viewing among children in select
communities that could subsequently be implemented
on a larger scale.
- Children and Weight: What Communities
Can Do About It
Project Dates: 10/1/99-9/30/02, extended
to 9/30/03
Funded By: The California Nutrition Network
and the Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program
The goal of this project is to provide low-income
schools and communities with the resources
they need to create an environment that
fosters healthy growth and development,
positive body image and high self-esteem
among all children. A resource kit was developed
to help empower and support schools and
communities as they assess the current environment,
identify strengths and weaknesses, establish
priorities, develop and implement an action
plan.
- Development of Eating Patterns and
Obesity in African American Girls
Project Dates: 12/1/02-11/30/05
Funded by: USDA-ERS
Tracking eating patterns and their relation
to obesity of a large cohort of African
American girls from ages 9 to19 in three
cities (Cincinnati, Ohio, Washington, DC
and Richmond,CA).
- Gender, Obesity, Reactive Protein and
Oxidative Stress
Project Dates: 12/1/03-11/30/07
Funded by: NIDDK
The long-term objective of this project
is to identify nutritional factors that
can lower C-reactive protein and lipid peroxidation.
C-reactive protein (CRP), a marker of inflammation,
has been shown to be "remarkably consistent"
in its association with cardiovascular disease,
as well as with diabetes and other conditions.
Oxidative damage biomarkers have been associated
with the etiology of numerous disease conditions,
including atherosclerosis, diabetes, COPD
and others. Both CRP and lipid oxidation
have been shown to have a direct (not correlational)
effect on vascular and other tissues, including
effects on smooth muscle contractility,
induction of intercellular and vascular
cell adhesion molecules, enhancement of
complement activation, and other mechanisms.
We hypothesize that some of the harmful
effects of obesity, and of post-menopausal
status, are attributable to fat-induced
CRP and lipid oxidation. We propose to test
whether antioxidant supplements can lower
CRP and lipid oxidation.
- Identify Needs & Interests of Non-English
Speaking Parents Regarding Pediatric Overweight
Project Dates: 8/04-12/04
Funded by: Undergraduate Research Oppty
Program
A student will conduct focus groups among
Asians in Oakland to determine their needs
and concerns regarding pediatric overweight.
This information will be used to design
culturally appropriate educational materials.
- Obesity, Hyperinsulinemia and Colon
Cancer
Project Dates: 9/30/02-8/31/04
Funded by: NIH/NCI
Based on evidence that insulin and related
growth factors affect biological processes
associated with increased risk of cancer,
we hypothesize that it is the hyperinsulinemia
and not body fatness per se that is responsible
for increased susceptibility of the overweight
and obese to colonic cancer. If our hypothesis
is substantiated, the results of this study
will inform strategies of reducing risk
of colonic cancer due to overweight and
obesity.
- Randomized, Controlled Community Intervention
to Reduce the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in
Overweight African American Children.
Project Dates: 7/1/04-12/31/07
Funded by: CSREES
The prevalence of pediatric type 2 diabetes
has risen at an unprecedented rate. Urgently
needed to address this public health crisis
are prevention strategies that target high
risk children, can be easily replicated,
are sustainable, and can be used to inform
food aid programs, and community and school
organizations traditionally involved in
the health and welfare of children. The
goal of the proposed project is to reduce
the risk of type 2 diabetes in overweight
9- to 10-year-old African American children
through a community-based program that includes
research, extension and education components.
- Reversing Childhood Obesity Trends:
Helping Children Achieve Healthy Weights
Project Dates: initiated in 2001 - ongoing
Funded by: USDA
To reduce the prevalence of childhood obesity
across the nation through the integration
of research, education, and innovative approaches
to help children achieve healthy weights.
- Soda Out of Schools (SOS): Impact on
Adolescent Obesity
Project Dates: 9/02-8/05
Funded by: NIH
This project is designed to evaluate whether
changing the beverage environment in schools
may contribute to reducing adolescent weight
gain and related health problems. Baseline
data will be collected in Spring 2003 in
four California high schools from 9th and
10th graders. Follow-ups will be conducted
with the same students in Spring 2004 and
2005. Highly sweetened beverages will be
replaced with other drinks in two intervention
schools in Fall 2003. Students’ beverage
intake and weight patterns in these schools
will be compared to two high schools that
do not make the change. In addtion to the
health effects, the barriers, economic impacts,
and acceptability of the change will be
evaluated through interview with students,
school food services and other staff and
stakeholders.
- California Hub: Linking Resources for
Obesity Prevention
Project Dates: 10/00-9/03
Funded By: Centers for Disease Control
This project developed a working group (hub)
that is participating in a network of Prevention
Research Centers to explore novel approaches
to obesity and chronic disease prevention.
Center activities include web-site and list
serve development, statewide meetings, synthesis
of findings on interventions, sharing of
expertise and development of fact sheets
and policy recommendations. As a part of
this project, the Center is also co-chairing
a workgroup to conduct a literature review
on the determinants of energy imbalance
and to develop recommendations for future
research and promising interventions. Other
hubs sites include: Harvard, St Louis University,
University of North Carolina, University
of Oklahoma, University of Washington and
University of New Mexico.
- California WIC Childhood Obesity Prevention
Project (FitWIC)
Project Dates: 10/1/99-9/30/03
Funded By: Food and Nutrition Section of
USDA
The focus of the project is to determine
the changes that state WIC agencies and
local WIC sites need to make to be more
responsive to the problem of childhood obesity.
California is the lead state for this USDA
five-state WIC Special Projects Grant which
is being carried out in Vermont, Virginia,
the Intertribal Council of Arizona, and
Kentucky. The California project is focusing
on the promotion of physical activity as
well as working with communities, establishing
local task forces, to develop long term,
appropriate solutions to the rising problem
of childhood obesity among the Latino population
in 4 counties.
- Determinants of Energy Imbalance: A
Review of Existing Knowledge and Recommendations
for Future Research and intervention
Project Dates: 10/01-9/03
Funded By: Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
The purpose of this project is to summarize
the current knowledge pertaining to the
determinants of overweight and the effectiveness
of interventions designed to reduce overweight
in order to: identify gaps in knowledge;
suggest research to increase the understanding
of these determinants; and identify promising
target behaviors for the prevention of overweight.
- Dietary Patterning Through Adolescence
Project Dates: 10/1/01-9/30/03
Funded By: USDA
This study will analyze dietary intake (based
on whole foods) of adolescents who particiapted
in the NHLBI Growth and Health Study (NGHS)
to determine the realtionship between overweight
and dietary patterns.
- Healthy Eating and Childhood Overweight
Prevention Grants
Project Dates: 8/1/02-9/30/03
Funded by: Calif. WIC
Providing technical assistance to 8 collaborative
community nutrition projects across the
state of California to improve the food
and physical activity environment for low-income
families.
- The Paradoxical Relationship between
Food Insecurity and Child Obesity
Project Dates: Summer 2000 - June 2002 (extended)
Funded By: Department of Agriculture and
Natural Resources (DANR)
The purpose of this project is to examine
the relationship between food security and
childhood obesity. A cross sectional survey
of women andchildren from 500 low-income
Latino families in five different California
counties is being conducted in order to
analyze the relationship between body mass
index and food insecurity.
