Harvard University Expert on Inflammation’s Role in Obesity Receives Columbia...
Columbia University Medical Center has awarded the 2010 Naomi Berrie Award to a Harvard researcher who has made important advances in understanding the molecular basis for links between obesity,...
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Study Shows Soda Tax Would Save Lives and More Than $17 Billion in Healthcare...
Tax has huge potential to reduce obesity, diabetes, and heart disease, while saving more than $17 billion in healthcare costs over ten years and generating $13 billion a year in tax revenues January 9,...
View ArticleFatty Heart Linked to Sudden Cardiac Death
CUMC researchers have found a link between fat accumulation in the heart and sudden cardiac death. Obesity and diabetes, both known risk factors for sudden cardiac death, can lead to extra fat in the...
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Making Calorie Postings Count: Improving Menu Boards in Fast Food Restaurants
Federal law requires chain restaurants to post calorie counts, with the aim of helping consumers make healthier choices. Yet according to a study by Elizabeth Gross Cohn, RN, MS, DNSc, and colleagues...
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Fast-Food Menu Calorie Counts Legally Compliant But Not As Helpful to...
NEW YORK, NY (Feb. 23, 2012) – Calorie listings on fast-food chain restaurant menus might meet federal labeling requirements but don’t do a good job of helping consumers trying to make healthy meal...
View ArticleHow Many Calories Does It Take to Reach Childhood Obesity Prevention Goals?
Researchers predict that without changes to eating and activity, more than one in five young people will be obese by 2020 In order for the nation to achieve goals set by the federal government for...
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Columbia Doctors Featured on HBO Documentary
Rudolph Leibel, MD, co-director of Columbia’s Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center and of the New York Obesity Research Center and the Christopher J. Murphy Memorial Professor of Diabetes Research, and his...
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New Brain Target for Appetite Control Identified
Finding raises hopes for new anti-obesity medications New York, NY (June 7, 2012) — Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) have identified a brain receptor that appears to play a...
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Mechanism Turns White Fat to Energy-Burning Brown Fat
New York, NY (August 2, 2012) — Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers have identified a mechanism that can give energy-storing white fat some of the beneficial characteristics of...
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Why Deepu Gowda Voted for NYC’s “Soda Ban”
As a member of the NYC Board of Health, CUMC internist Deepu Gowda, MD, MPH, voted in favor of limiting serving sizes of sugary drinks. The NYC Board of Health’s first act in 1866 prohibited hogs and...
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