1. Ruth Lois Huenemann was an American public health nutritionist.
15 Facts About Ruth Huenemann
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Ruth Huenemann was a pioneer in the study of childhood obesity.
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Ruth Huenemann was born February 5,1910, in Waukon, Iowa, United States.
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Ruth Huenemann grew up in both Wisconsin and South Dakota.
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Ruth Huenemann was the second of 14 children born to a farming family.
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Ruth Huenemann attended the University of Wisconsin and graduated in 1938 with a bachelor's degree in nutrition.
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Ruth Huenemann taught for a decade at the University of Tennessee as an associate professor.
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In 1953, Ruth Huenemann was hired on at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Ruth Huenemann was the chair of the Department of Social and Administrative Health Sciences in the School of Public Health.
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Ruth Huenemann was the head of the Department of Nutritional Sciences.
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Ruth Huenemann was the founder of the public health nutrition program at UC Berkeley.
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Ruth Huenemann became a pioneer in the study of childhood obesity in the 1960s studying the diet and exercise habits of Berkeley teenagers.
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Ruth Huenemann studied teenaged children to learn their eating habits, activity and body type.
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Ruth Huenemann endeavored to learn which wide-ranging factors could have influenced the development of obesity.
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Ruth Huenemann's study was one of the first to make a connection between socioeconomic status and obesity.