{"id":114020,"date":"2016-06-28T10:41:08","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T14:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&#038;p=114020"},"modified":"2016-06-28T10:41:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T14:41:08","slug":"study-evaluate-effects-child-obesity-prevention-program-dads-meal-planning-shopping-cooking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2016\/06\/study-evaluate-effects-child-obesity-prevention-program-dads-meal-planning-shopping-cooking\/","title":{"rendered":"Study to evaluate effects of child obesity prevention program on dads\u2019 meal planning, shopping and cooking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a successful pilot of the father-focused childhood obesity program Dad and Me, Amy Mobley, assistant professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, has received a $420,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue and expand the program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost obesity prevention parent education programs focus on mothers,\u201d Mobley says. \u201cWe have to recognize that the traditional role of a father is changing, and fathers have a significant impact on their child\u2019s heath. More than 70 percent of fathers living with their children under the age of 5 fed or ate meals with them daily.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mobley felt inspired to work with fathers after watching her daughter and husband interact. She says, \u201cI recognized the influence my husband had on our daughter. We know that lower-income men are more likely to be involved in meal planning, shopping and preparation compared to higher-income men, but research shows that low-income fathers tend to use more undesirable feeding practices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/naturally.uconn.edu\/2016\/06\/28\/study-effects-of-child-obesity-prevention-program-on-dads\/\">Read the full article at Naturally@UConn<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a successful pilot of the father-focused childhood obesity program Dad and Me, Amy Mobley, assistant professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, has received a $420,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue and expand the program. \u201cMost obesity prevention parent education programs focus on mothers,\u201d Mobley says. \u201cWe have to recognize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":114021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2224],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1871],"class_list":["post-114020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cahnr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 10:11:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/114021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114020"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=114020"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=114020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}