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Friends, family can influence your weight—for good or bad
Efforts to lose weight and lead a healthy lifestyle can be influenced positively—or negatively—by people closest to you, including your friends, family, spouse, and co-workers, according to Walter Willett, Fredrick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition and…
The cost of childhood obesity
July 22, 2014 -- What’s the most cost-effective way to prevent childhood obesity? Is it by taxing sugary beverages? Requiring more physical education classes in schools? Eliminating the corporate tax deduction for marketing and advertising when it comes…
Social network project tackles obesity and diabetes
July 14, 2014 -- Making use of the ties between friends and family to promote healthy behaviors appears to motivate people to better manage their weight over the long term—and reduce their risk for obesity and diabetes—even in…
Why Public Health? Anthony Covarrubias
May 2014 — In our video series “Why Public Health?” we ask Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health students and alumni to talk about what drew them to the field. Anthony Covarrubias, a doctoral student in the Biological…
High blood pressure top risk factor in heart disease deaths
High blood pressure is the leading risk factor for death from cardiovascular disease (CVD) around the world, according to a new study led by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers. The report provides a global view of…
HSPH goes Hollywood with Fed Up film screening
“There are 600,000 food items in America. Eighty percent of them have added sugar,” according to the new film Fed Up, which was screened at Harvard School of Public Health on April 23, 2014 in Kresge G3. The…
Aaron M. Cypess receives 2014 Tashjian award for excellence in endocrine research
Aaron M. Cypess, assistant investigator in the Section on Integrative Physiology & Metabolism and staff physician at Joslin Diabetes Center and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, is the recipient of the 2014 Armen H. Tashjian…
Gökhan S. Hotamisligil receives 9th Danone International Prize for Nutrition
For immediate release: April 29, 2014 SAN DIEGO – Danone Institute International announced today that prominent scientist Gökhan S. Hotamisligil, MD, PhD, is the recipient of the 9th Danone International Prize for Nutrition for his outstanding research in…
Risk of obesity from eating fried foods may depend on genetic makeup
For immediate release: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 Boston, MA —People with a genetic predisposition to obesity are at a higher risk of obesity and related chronic diseases from eating fried foods than those with a lower genetic risk,…
Nutrition label changes aim to encourage healthier eating
Public health experts lauded the recent changes to food labels announced by the Food and Drug Association (FDA) on February 27, 2014 — which include making serving sizes more realistic, listing added sugars, and printing calories in larger…