Tag: Overweight

  • Nation & World

    Tackling childhood obesity with a text message

    Two interventions that link clinical care with community resources helped improve key health measures in overweight or obese children at the outset of a study, as reported in JAMA Pediatrics.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Weighed down

    Harvard anthropologist Susan Greenhalgh’s new book, “Fat-Talk Nation: The Human Costs of America’s War on Fat,” delves deep into the national obsession with thinness.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Insulin and colon cancer linked

    Researchers have found that colorectal cancer survivors whose diet and activity patterns lead to excess amounts of insulin in the blood have a higher risk of cancer recurrence and death from the disease.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Obesity? Diabetes? We’ve been set up

    The twin epidemics of obesity and its cousin, diabetes, have been the target of numerous studies at Harvard and its affiliated hospitals and institutions. Harvard researchers have produced a dizzying array of findings on the often related problems.

    14 minutes