Connecting the dots between climate change and health care
Bringing climate change into the examining room by discussing links between a warming environment and the everyday health of patients.
Feb. 10, 2020 • ~16 min
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Clearing up the confusion over red meat recommendations
Red meat recommendations and meat from plants: Chan School Nutrition Department head Frank Hu talks about recent developments in diet.
Nov. 8, 2019 • ~13 min
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Researchers able to improve, reverse age-related diseases in mice
Wyss Institute, Harvard Medical School study offers hope for single genetic treatment for multiple age-related ills.
Nov. 4, 2019 • ~6 min
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Harvard researchers show how several diets can improve heart health
Researchers applied new techniques to old samples from a 2005 dietary study to show that a focus on eating healthy rather than obsessing over a single nutrient can improve heart health.
Sept. 18, 2019 • ~6 min
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Gina McCarthy reflects on progress 50 years after Cuyahoga River fire
Environmental protection is not a goal to achieve but a task to be undertaken by one generation and handed to the next, Gina McCarthy, the former EPA administrator and current director of Harvard’s Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment, told the Gazette in an Earth Day interview.
April 19, 2019 • ~12 min
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Dietary fat is good? Dietary fat is bad? Coming to consensus
Nutrition researchers with widely varying views on dietary guidelines for fats and carbohydrates offered a model for transcending the diet wars, with both sides agreeing on overall diet quality.
Nov. 15, 2018 • ~3 min
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