Results from a Geisel School of Medicine study investigating whether following a planetary health style diet during pregnancy affects preterm birth and babies’ size at birth are published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, “Adherence to the EAT-Lancet Planetary Health Diet during Pregnancy and Associations with Preterm Birth and Infant Size: a prospective analysis from the New Hampshire Birth Cohort.”
Read article—Quotes Amer Al-Nimr, a professor of pediatrics and medicine, in an article offering a nuanced look at the health profile of sugar. “We don’t want people getting the message that food is bad or that food is a source of concern or a source of anxiety,” Al-Nimr said.
Yahoo News – Features Julia Nordgren, MED ’99, who maintains a personal health and diet practice, consults with companies on how to keep employees healthy, and offers cooking classes in order to transform the way the medical field approaches healthy eating with patients, and educate people on how diet affects health.
First-year Geisel medical student Ryan Olavarria is dedicated to showing people that small behavioral changes leading to better health are easy to make.
The fruits and vegetables provided at school deliver an important dietary boost to low income adolescents, according to a new study by researchers at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center and The Hood Center for Children and Families at Dartmouth.
A Dartmouth researcher has found that reducing carbohydrate intake could reduce the risk of breast cancer recurrence among women whose tumor tissue is positive for the insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1) receptor.
A cooking elective led by Julia Nordgren (’99) teaches students about different diets—and about how to cook healthy, delicious food.
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