On this page you can view our most recent publications and other “hot topics”, or stuff that we are working on that is not yet published

USC Childhood Obesity Research Center Co-organizes Community "Eat-In" to Raise Awareness... read more

In April 2009, our paper in Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine was published - we showed that after 16 weeks of dietary behavior/education overweight Hispanic children who reduced sugar by an average of 1 soda per day or increased fiber by half a serving of beans per day had beneficial improvements in type 2 diabetes risk factors. You can read the press here and the full paper by clicking: ArchivesSANO2009.pdf.

In December 2008, our perspective on ethnic disparities in obesity-related outcomes appeared in Obesity alongside a position statement on ethnic disparities in childhood obesity.

In November 2008, our paper on the persistence of pre-diabetes was published in Diabetes [Diabetes2008.pdf]. In this paper we present results from a group of 128 overweight Hispanic children who were followed for 4 years. Those children who had what we have termed “persistent pre-diabetes” had reduced beta-cell function and increasing visceral fat over time.