Patricia Crawford Quotations

She really zeroed in on ... the declining physical activity of our youth. This was in the '60s, when so many of the lifestyle changes we talk about today were occurring. She was quite foresighted.

She was a legend in her time. The issue of childhood obesity seems so current now, but imagine what it was like in the 1960s when she sought funding for such studies. She had foresight into a growing problem.

It appears they have a difficult bargaining relationship.

That was one of the first studies to show the complex relationship between socioeconomic status and obesity.