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Kids twice as likely to eat healthy after watching cooking shows with healthy food Television programs featuring healthy foods can be a key ingredient in leading children to make healthier food choices now and into adulthood. A new study found kids who watched a child-oriented cooking show featuring healthy food were 2.7 times more likely to make a healthy food choice than those w...

“We study the causes of “nutritional inequality”: why the wealthy eat more healthfully than the poor in the United States. Exploiting supermarket entry and household moves to healthier neighborhoods, we reject that neighborhood environments contribute meaningfully to nutritional inequality. We then estimate a structural model of grocery demand, using a new instrument exploiting the combination of grocery retail chains’ differing presence across geographic markets with their differing comparative advantages across product groups. Counterfactual simulations show that exposing low-income households to the same products and prices available to high income households reduces nutritional inequality by only about ten percent, while the remaining 90 percent is driven by differences in demand. These findings counter the argument that policies to increase the supply of healthy groceries could play an important role in reducing nutritional inequality.”
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UofL receives $16.4 million for obesity, diabetes research The University of Louisville announced it has received more than $16 million in funding for medical research. The National Institutes of Health awarded the grants to the school's Diabetes and Obesity Center.

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Obesity Prevalence Among Adults Living in Metropolitan ... Approximately 46 million persons (14%) in the United States live in nonmetropolitan counties.