Browsing by Author "Cradock, Angie"
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Assessment of a Districtwide Policy on Availability of Competitive Beverages in Boston Public Schools, Massachusetts, 2013
Mozaffarian, Rebecca S.; Gortmaker, Steven L.; Kenney, Erica L.; Carter, Jill E.; Howe, M. Caitlin Westfall; Reiner, Jennifer F.; Cradock, Angie L. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2016)Introduction: Competitive beverages are drinks sold outside of the federally reimbursable school meals program and include beverages sold in vending machines, a la carte lines, school stores, and snack bars. Competitive ... -
Evaluating the Impact of the Healthy Beverage Executive Order for City Agencies in Boston, Massachusetts, 2011–2013
Cradock, Angie L.; Kenney, Erica L.; McHugh, Anne; Conley, Lisa; Mozaffarian, Rebecca S.; Reiner, Jennifer F.; Gortmaker, Steven L. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015)Introduction: Intake of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) is associated with negative health effects. Access to healthy beverages may be promoted by policies such as the Healthy Beverage Executive Order (HBEO) established ... -
Identifying Sources of Children’s Consumption of Junk Food in Boston After-School Programs, April–May 2011
Kenney, Erica L.; Austin, S. Bryn; Cradock, Angie L.; Giles, Catherine M.; Lee, Rebekka M.; Davison, Kirsten K.; Gortmaker, Steven L. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014)Introduction: Little is known about how the nutrition environment in after-school settings may affect children’s dietary intake. We measured the nutritional quality of after-school snacks provided by programs participating ... -
Obesity Prevention in Child Care: A Review of U.S. State Regulations
Benjamin, Sara E; Cradock, Angie Lynn; Walker, Elizabeth M.; Slining, Meghan; Gillman, Matthew William (BioMed Central, 2008)Objective: To describe and contrast individual state nutrition and physical activity regulations related to childhood obesity for child care centers and family child care homes in the United States. Methods: We conducted ... -
Play Across Boston: A Community Initiative to Reduce Disparities in Access to After-School Physical Activity Programs for Inner-City Youths
Hannon, Cynthia; Cradock, Angie Lynn; Gortmaker, Steven L.; Wiecha, Jean; El Ayadi, Alison Marie; Keefe, Linda; Harris, Alfreda (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2006)Background: In 1999, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded Play Across Boston to address disparities in access to physical activity facilities and programs for Boston, Mass, inner-city youths. ... -
Redrawing the US Obesity Landscape: Bias-Corrected Estimates of State-Specific Adult Obesity Prevalence
Ward, Zachary J.; Long, Michael W.; Resch, Stephen C.; Gortmaker, Steven L.; Cradock, Angie L.; Giles, Catherine; Hsiao, Amber; Wang, Y. Claire (Public Library of Science, 2016)Background: State-level estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) underestimate the obesity epidemic because they use self-reported height and weight. We describe a novel bias-correction method ... -
US States’ Childhood Obesity Surveillance Practices and Recommendations for Improving Them, 2014–2015
Blondin, Kelly J.; Giles, Catherine M.; Cradock, Angie L.; Gortmaker, Steven L.; Long, Michael W. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2016)Introduction: Routine collection, analysis, and reporting of data on child height, weight, and body mass index (BMI), particularly at the state and local levels, are needed to monitor the childhood obesity epidemic, plan ... -
Validity of a practitioner-administered observational tool to measure physical activity, nutrition, and screen time in school-age programs
Lee, Rebekka M; Emmons, Karen M; Okechukwu, Cassandra A; Barrett, Jessica L; Kenney, Erica L; Cradock, Angie L; Giles, Catherine M; deBlois, Madeleine E; Gortmaker, Steven L (BioMed Central, 2014)Background: Nutrition and physical activity interventions have been effective in creating environmental changes in afterschool programs. However, accurate assessment can be time-consuming and expensive as initiatives are ...