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Vigorous physical activity among college students in the United StatesToben F Nelson
University of Minnesota Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, 1300 S Second St, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
J Phys Act Health 4:495-508. 2007..Vigorous physical activity (VPA) declines from adolescence into adulthood, and social disparities in VPA exist. Physical activity is understudied in the college setting...- Persistence of heavy drinking and ensuing consequences at heavy drinking collegesToben F Nelson
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 55454, USA
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 70:726-34. 2009..The purpose of this study was to examine drinking levels, related harms, and secondhand effects of alcohol use at heavy drinking colleges between 1993 and 2005 at colleges with high levels of drinking in 1993... 
Do youth sports prevent pediatric obesity? A systematic review and commentaryToben F Nelson
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Curr Sports Med Rep 10:360-70. 2011..Additional research may foster understanding about how sport, and youth sport settings, can help promote energy balance and healthy body weight...- Student drinking at U.S. college sports eventsToben F Nelson
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Subst Use Misuse 45:1861-73. 2010..Future research should evaluate whether enacting policy restrictions can reduce drinking and related problems at intercollegiate sports events... - Implementation of NIAAA College Drinking Task Force recommendations: how are colleges doing 6 years later?Toben F Nelson
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55454, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 34:1687-93. 2010.... - Alcohol policies and practices among four-year colleges in the United States: prevalence and patternsKathleen M Lenk
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 73:361-7. 2012..The purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence of college alcohol policies and practices and to identify patterns of policies/practices across colleges... - Screening services for alcohol misuse and abuse at four-year colleges in the U.SKathleen M Lenk
University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
J Subst Abuse Treat 43:352-8. 2012..Although most colleges had many alcohol misuse/abuse screening components in place, more than one third show need for improvement in how, where, and when screening is conducted... 
Alcohol control policies and practices at professional sports stadiumsKathleen M Lenk
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Public Health Rep 125:665-73. 2010..An important strategy to reduce such problems may be the use of alcohol control policies at sports stadiums. The objective of this study was to examine alcohol control policies and practices at professional sports stadiums in the U.S...- Adopting local alcohol policies: a case study of community efforts to regulate malt liquor salesPatricia A McKee
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 1300 South Second Street, Minneapolis, MN 55455 1015, USA
Am J Health Promot 26:e86-94. 2012..To learn how the local context may affect a city's ability to regulate alcohol products such as high-alcohol-content malt liquor, a beverage associated with heavy drinking and a spectrum of nuisance crimes in urban areas... - Enforcing alcohol policies on college campuses: reports from college enforcement officialsTraci L Toomey
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
J Drug Educ 41:327-44. 2011..Large colleges and public colleges tended to report greater enforcement levels. While many campuses report proactive alcohol enforcement, several areas of improvement in alcohol enforcement at colleges are indicated... - Sport participation during adolescence and suicide ideation and attemptsLindsay A Taliaferro
Healthy Youth Development Prevention Research Center, Division of Adolescent Health and Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55414, USA
Int J Adolesc Med Health 23:3-10. 2011..Most research regarding sport participation and suicide risk found protective relationships. However, all studies in this area were based on cross-sectional designs... - Exploring parent perceptions of the food environment in youth sportMegan Thomas
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
J Nutr Educ Behav 44:365-71. 2012..To examine parent perceptions of the food environment in youth sport... - Screening for alcohol problems among 4-year colleges and universitiesKen C Winters
Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota, School of Medicine, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
J Am Coll Health 59:350-7. 2011..To assess the use of alcohol screening tools across US colleges... - The age-21 minimum legal drinking age: a case study linking past and current debatesTraci L Toomey
The University of Minnesota, School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
Addiction 104:1958-65. 2009..A new movement has arisen to again lower the MLDA in the U.S. Aim The aim is to discuss this current MLDA debate within the context of the long history of the U.S. MLDA... - Sports betting and other gambling in athletes, fans, and other college studentsToben F Nelson
School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, 55454, USA
Res Q Exerc Sport 78:271-83. 2007..Athletes, sports fans, and students attending schools with high "sports interest" are appropriate targets for prevention efforts... - The relationships among socioeconomic status, fruit and vegetable intake, and alcohol consumptionScott T Shimotsu
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55415, USA
Am J Health Promot 27:21-8. 2012..We hypothesized that fruit and vegetable consumption would be inversely associated with alcohol consumption and the relationship would differ by SES... - State but not district nutrition policies are associated with less junk food in vending machines and school stores in US public schoolsMartha Y Kubik
School of Nursing, University of Minnesota, 308 Harvard St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 110:1043-8. 2010.... - Effects of policies to restrict malt liquor sales on neighborhood crimeElizabeth Barajas
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55454 1015, USA
Subst Use Misuse 46:1234-43. 2011..Limitations and implications of our study are discussed, and further research suggested. The study was funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...