Nutrition | Obesity | Physical Activity | School-Based

Nutrition

• Austin SB, Gortmaker SL. Dieting and Smoking Initiation in Early Adolescent Girls and Boys: A prospective study. Am J Public Health. 2001 Mar;91(3):446-50.
• Wiecha JL, Peterson KE, Ludwig DS, Kim J, Sobol A, Gortmaker SL. When children eat what they watch: impact of television viewing on dietary intake in youth. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2006 Apr;160(4):436-42.

Obesity

• Dietz WH, Gortmaker SL. Preventing Obesity in Children and Adolescents. Annu Rev Public Health. 2001;22:337-53. Review.
• Lindsay AC, Sussner KM, Kim J, Gortmaker S. The role of parents in preventing childhood obesity. Future Child. 2006 Spring;16(1):169-86.
• Ludwig DS, Peterson KE, Gortmaker SL. Relation Between Consumption of Sugar-sweetened Drinks and Childhood Obesity: Aprospective, observational analysis. Lancet. 2001 Feb 17;357(9255):505-8.
• Nelson TF, Gortmaker SL, Subramanian SV, Cheung L, Wecshler H. Disparities in Overweight and Obesity Among US College Students. Am J Health Behav. 2007 31(4):363-373.
• Taveras EM, Sobol AM, Hannon C, Finkelstein D, Wiecha J, Gortmaker SL. Youths’ perceptions of overweight-related prevention counseling at a primary care visit. Obesity Research, in press.

Physical Activity

• Cradock AL, Kawachi I, Colditz GA, Hannon C, Melly SJ, Wiecha JL, Gortmaker SL. Playground safety and access in Boston neighborhoods. Am J Prev Med. 2005 28(4):357-363.
  
• Hannon C, Cradock A, Gortmaker SL, Wiecha J, El Ayadi A, Keefe L, Harris A. Play Across Boston: a community initiative to reduce disparities in access to after-school physical activity programs for inner-city youths. Prev Chronic Dis. 2006 Jul;3(3):A100. Epub 2006 Jun 15.
• Polacsek M, O’Brien LM, Lagasse W, Hammar N. Move & Improve: A worksite wellness program in Maine. Prev Chronic Dis. 2006 Jul;3(3):A100. Epub 2006 Jun 15.
  
• Kim D, Subramanian SV, Gortmaker SL, Kawachi I. US state- and county-level social capital in relation to obesity and physical inactivity: A multilevel, multivariable analysis. Soc Sci Med. 2006 Apr 24; [Epub ahead of print].
• Rodriguez DA, Brown AL, Troped PJ. Portable global positioning units to complement accelerometry-based physical activity monitors. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2005 37(11 Suppl):S572-S581.
• Troped PJ, Saunders RP, Pate RR. Comparsion between rail-trail users and nonusers and men and women’s patterns of use in a suburban community. J Phys Act & Health. 2005 2:169-180. Human Kinetics Publishers, Inc.
• Wang YC, Gortmaker SL, Sobol AM, Kuntz KM. Estimating the energy gap among US children: a counterfactual approach. Pediatrics. 2006 Dec;118(6):e1721-33.
• Wiecha JL, Sobol AM, Peterson KE, Gortmaker SL. Household Television Access: Associations with screen time, reading, and homework among youth. Ambulatory Pediatrics. 2001 Sept-Oct; 1(5): 244-251.

School-Based

• Austin SB, Fung T, Cohen-Berarak A, Wardle K, Cheung LWY. Facilitating Change in School Health: A Qualitative Study of Schools’ Experiences Using the School Health Index. Prev Chronic Dis. 2006 Apr;3(2).Epub 2006 Apr 5.
• Austin SB, Melly SJ, Sanchez BN, Patel A, Buka S, Gortmaker SL. Clustering of fast-food restaurants around schools: A novel approach of spatial statistics to the study of food environments. Am J of Public Health. 2005 95(9):1575-1581.
• Austin SB, Field AE, Wiecha J, Peterson KE, Gortmaker SL. The impact of a school-based obesity prevention trial on disordered weight-control behaviors in early adolescent girls. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2005 Mar;159(3):225-30.
• Bauer, Patel, Prokop, Austin. Swimming upstream: Faculty and staff members from urban middle schools in low-income communities describe their experience implementing nutrition and physical activity initiatives. Prev Chronic Dis. 2006 Apr;3(2). Epub 2006 Apr 5.
• Chavarro JE, Peterson KE, Sobol AM, Wiecha JL, Gortmaker SL. Effects of a School-based Obesity-prevention Intervention on Menarche (United States). Cancer Causes Control. 2005 Dec;16(10):1245-52.
• Field AE, Peterson KE, Gortmaker SL, Cheung L, Rockett H, Fox MK, Colditz GA. Reproducibility and Validity of a Food Frequency Questionnaire Among Fourth to Seventh Grade Inner-city School Children: Implications of age and day- to-day variation in dietary intake. Public Health Nutr. 1999 Sep;2(3):293-300.
• Gortmaker SL, Peterson K, Wiecha J, Sobol AM, Dixit S, Fox MK, Laird N. Reducing Obesity Via a School-based Interdisciplinary Intervention Among Youth: Planet Health. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 1999 Apr;153(4):409-18.
• Gortmaker SL, Cheung LW, Peterson KE, Chomitz G, Cradle JH, Dart H, Fox MK, Bullock RB, Sobol AM, Colditz G, Field AE, Laird N. Impact of a School-based Interdisciplinary Intervention on Diet and Physical Activity Among Urban Primary School Children: Eat Well and Keep Moving. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 1999 Sep; 153(9):975-83.
• Wiecha JL, Finkelstein D, Troped PJ, Fragala M, Peterson KE. School vending machine use and fast-food restaurant use are associated with sugar-sweetened beverage intake in youth. JADA 2006 106(10):1624-1630.

For a complete list of publications and presentations by HPRC staff and faculty from 1998-2003, click here. (PDF)