“Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity: The Role of Life Stress”

Pat Crawford is Co-Director of the Center for Weight and Health, Cooperative Extension Nutrition Specialist in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, and Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health and Department  of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology at the University of California, Berkeley.

The goal of the Center for Weight and Health (CW&H) is to provide guidance for the development of science based solutions in the area of childhood obesity prevention. The Center for Weight and Health’s main focus is on childhood obesity prevention in the hope of a healthier tomorrow. I worked on a project called “Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity: The Role of Life Stress”. The study’s main focus is on stress and obesity. An examination of the data collected by the Center will demonstrate if there is a relationship between a mother’s stress levels, their eating habits, and their children’s eating habits. The data from a ten-year study called “Growth and Health Study” will be analyzed with EpiData to inform the study to develop ways to prevent obesity.

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 Jas’Min Sutton attended Los Medanos College in Pittsburg. She hopes to transfer to Cal State East Bay, or San Francisco State University. She looks forward to becoming a doctor, a lawyer and owning her own business. She is pursuing these careers because she loves helping people. She would like to own a business because she feels it would be a great investment for her family. She is the first person in her family to attend a college.