October 3, 2014 — How hard can it be to figure out that we’ve had enough — no, too much — of unnecessary antibiotics? If you need one more reason to believe, look no further than the study published this week in JAMA Pediatrics. Charles Bailey and colleagues conducted a carefully-constructed observational study to compare the risk of obesity […]
October 2, 2014 — Consumer research experts tell us that everyone is pursuing healthy lifestyles and running from the notion of dieting. And if you look at the waning fortunes of large, well-established diet brands, you will find a pattern that supports this notion. Diet sodas like Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi are suffering sales declines even as consumers are […]
October 1, 2014 — A workshop on cross-sector obesity projects at the Institute of Medicine leaves us wondering: do we talk about obesity in polite company? The title of the workshop — Cross-Sector Work on Obesity Prevention, Treatment, and Weight Maintenance: Models for Change — didn’t exactly match the content. It was really about obesity prevention and community transformation projects. A succession […]
