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...Lawrence Rosen, chair of Princeton's anthropology department, was recently at a meeting with the university's other department chairs, when the president asked how many had taught a freshman seminar...
...James Rosen, a psychology professor at the University of Vermont in Burlington, and the head of the UVM Weight Control Program, spoke with TIME.com about kids' raging battle of the bulge...
...Rosen: When we look at kids' lives today, we're seeing the same convergence of events that's promoting greater obesity in adults: Less physical activity and a toxic food environment. If you study the two ingredients that influence weight - physical activity and nutrition - you can see the root of the problem. Young kids tend to be very active, but that activity level drops off in middle adolescence, around the start of high school. That's especially true for girls, who can experience a lot of peer pressure not to participate in sports...
...Rosen: We can't throw up our hands and figure this is hopeless. What we need now is more scientific investigation. There needs to be a top-down encouragement to investigate and promote pediatric weight control services at the local, state and federal levels...
...Rosen: Parents are very frustrated. It's very challenging to have an overweight adolescent. Parents have a lot of fears about telling a kid they need to lose weight - they worry it will push a child into an eating disorder. We also have a strong fat-acceptance movement in the United States, and some parents worry that pushing kids to lose weight means their kid will think they're not good enough, or not loved because of their weight...