MAY 10, 2023 — UTSA and University of Texas at Austin researchers found that implementing culturally tailored interventions to prevent obesity in toddlers improved regulation of screen time and sleep but did not have a strong impact on dietary and physical activity behaviors at home. Zenong Yin, Loretta J. Lowak Clarke Distinguished Professor in Health and Kinesiology in the Department of Public Health at the UTSA College for Health, Community and Policy (HCAP), and Deborah Parra-Medina, inaugural director of the Latino Research Institute at UT Austin, co-led a multidisciplinary team of researchers. UTSA HCAP Associate Dean of Research and Professor Erica Sosa and Associate Professor of Nutrition and Dietetics Sarah Ullevig also contributed to the research. The researchers received a five-year, $3.1 million federal grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate several strategies to prevent obesity in young children from low-income Latino families. They recently shared their findings in multiple conferences and research journals, including the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity and Cambridge University Press’ Public Health Nutrition. Read the entire article by clicking on the link below: https://www.utsa.edu/today/2023/05/story/researchers-advance-ways-to-re…