 | Kelly Brownell |
Kelly Brownell, chair of the Department of Psychology and director of the new Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, has long been at the center of national and international debates on the relationship of unhealthy foods and childhood obesity.
Time Magazine recognized his role in raising public awareness about this issue by including Brownell as one of the "100 most influential people in the world" for 2006. The listing was in Time's May 1 issue.
Describing Brownell as "one of the leaders in the fight against childhood obesity," the Time story says the Yale professor "has helped set the U.S. agenda by calling for a ban on sweetened-cereal ads aimed at kids and a tax on high-fat, low-nutrition food, with the revenue earmarked for children's nutrition.
"With health-care costs rising faster than even gas prices, obesity is a health crisis that could cripple our country for generations to come unless significant changes are made," the article added.
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Brownell cited as one of world's
'100 most influential people'
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