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McLoughlin signs 'Hohenheim Declaration' calling for accessible school lunches worldwide as a public health imperative

Gabriella McLoughlin, assistant professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, has joined nutrition researchers, scientists and policy makers from around the world in signing The Hohenheim Declaration, a statement promoting the need for governments globally to provide school meals to children. The declaration was signed by participants at the 5th Hidden Hunger Congress on September 6 at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, Germany. “This was possibly the only conference globally focused almost solely on school meals,” McLoughlin says. “Having research...
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Study will help schools maximize student meal programs

Federal nutrition policies that provide free or reduced-price breakfast and lunch to low-income students can reduce child hunger and food insecurity. The nutrition-rich meals can help counter risks for childhood overweight and obesity. School meals are a truly frontline public health program, and they’re well funded at a national level. But some schoolchildren aren’t accessing food they’re entitled to. Some schools face key barriers to successful implementation, and public schools often don’t have resources to get a big picture view of what’s working and what isn’t....
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New study looks at strategies for parenting 'highly motivated eaters'

Parents know that some kids are picky eaters and others are more enthusiastic about food, and keeping them all eating healthfully may require different approaches. But most formal guidance aimed at helping parents feed children hasn’t accounted for fundamental differences in children’s behavioral predispositions towards eating. “The research on how to feed kids has pretty much taken a one-size-fits-all approach, even though we've known for decades that kids vary tremendously in their interest and enjoyment of eating,” says Jennifer Orlet Fisher, professor in the Colleg...
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'African Perspectives' class places physical activity and public health in cultural context

Only a very small portion of Lucy Wachira’s kinesiology class on nutrition trends is about alternative proteins. But the subject of edible insects as a valuable food source, and a delicacy in some communities, perks up the undergrad students one afternoon in her “African Perspectives on Physical Activity, Nutrition and Health” class, especially when she shows them a photo from an African food market of trays filled with pre-cooked edible insects for sale. Some students ask for more details. Some squirm a little. “Let me move on from this picture, because I still want yo...
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Scholarly activities and accolades: January 2023

Every month, faculty in the College of Public Health take part in a range of scholarly activities; below are the activities for the month of January 2023. For news on research publications and grants, please see the college's news feed for in-depth stories and reports. If you are a faculty member and would like your activities included, please contact Lisa Litzinger-Drayton, director of communications and marketing, at lisalitzinger@temple.edu. Leadership Activities and Fellowships Marina Oktapodas Feiler was invited to join the Philadelphia Regional Center for Child...
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Jennifer Fisher

Fisher selected to help shape 2025 USA dietary guidelines

College of Public Health professor Jennifer Orlet Fisher has been selected to serve on the federal advisory committee helping to develop the next set of nutritional guidelines for Americans, to be issued in 2025. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, updated every five years, shape federal food programs, consumer education and food labeling.   “The U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans are the cornerstone of federal nutrition policy,” says Fisher, professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences and associate director of Temple’s Center for Obesity Research and Education (COR...
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Study examines timing of sleep, eating in childhood weight control

Can consistent sleep, eating and activity routines help children avoid excessive weight gain? Chantelle Hart, professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, is launching a study, funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, to explore a possible connection. “We know it’s important how much sleep kids get, how many calories they're taking in, how physically active they are. What we’re trying to understand better is how much the timing and consistency of those behaviors might also be important for weight regulation in chi...
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Nutrition MPH preps public health-minded dietitians

Chef Lisa Lombo grabs the whole, uncooked chicken with both hands and shows the students in her Food Preparation and Management class how to divide it into parts. Separating the drumsticks is hands-on work.   “Once you hear that snap, it allows the knife to cut right through it,” advises Lombo, who has been an executive chef at trendy Philadelphia restaurants and now plans menus for large institutions. Her students, each with a bird at their test kitchen workstations, put down their knives and imitate the bone-snapping technique.  This class session focuses on proteins,...
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Fisher leads panel issuing national recommendations for children’s healthy eating

Providing young children with repeated opportunities to try healthy foods, structured meal and snack environments, and the freedom to make their own food choices are key to helping them develop lifelong healthy eating habits, according to new national recommendations from a panel co-chaired by Jennifer Orlet Fisher of the College of Public Health, convened by Healthy Eating Research. The new recommendations for children ages 2 to 8 supplement the existing U.S. Dietary Guidelines. “The U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans represent the state-of-the-art understanding of wha...
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Fisher named associate editor of 'Frontiers in Public Health'

Jennifer Orlet Fisher, professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and associate director of Temple’s Center for Obesity Research and Education, is adding to her portfolio to become an associate editor of the journal Frontiers in Public Health.  Fisher, whose work focuses on the development of eating behavior during infancy and early childhood, will oversee peer review for articles in the journal’s new Public Health and Nutrition section and help the publication build a collection of manuscripts that focus on population-level nutrition. “I’m most ex...
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