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September 30, 2009
Overweight Youth and Disordered Eating Tendencies
 Overweight youth with certain socio-environmental, psychological, and behavioral tendencies are more likely to suffer from eating disorders.
These tendencies include reading magazine articles about dieting, reporting a lack of family connectedness, and placing a high importance on weight.
That's according to research led by Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, a University of Minnesota professor of epidemiology.
Listen to Neumark-Sztainer on Public Health Moment
June 25, 2009
The Vitality Project aims to improve health of entire community
 Albert Lea, Minnesota is the center of an innovative, ten-month pilot project designed to improve the health and life expectancy of people who live and work there.
It's called the AARP Blue Zones Vitality Project.
Leslie Lytle, a University of Minnesota epidemiology professor, is co-director of the project.
She says that instead of focusing on diet and exercise, the project encourages the best practices of the world's longest-lived populations with strategies such as making it easier to get around on and encouraging the development of social networks.
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April 22, 2009
Fast Food Intake Rises for Adolescents
 Adolescents are eating more fast food today than they did in the late-1990s. And as kids move from middle school to high school the rate increases dramatically.
That's according to new results from the Project EAT research study at the Univesity of Minnesota.
Researcher Katherine Bauer explains the findings and offers advice to parents.
• Listen to Bauer on Public Health Moment
March 4, 2009
Too much TV leads to poor diet
 The more TV that teenagers watch, the worse that they eat. That's according to a University of Minnesota study led by Daheia Barr-Anderson.
She says that kids who watched more than five hours of TV per day ate fewer fruits, vegetables and whole grains and more snack foods, fried foods and trans fats years later.
She recommends that parents limit TV time for their children to less than two hours a day and promote healthier foods.
• Listen to Barr-Anderson on Public Health Moment
February 9, 2009
Eating on the Run
 Young adults who take the time to sit down and share a meal with others rather than eating on the run are more likely to have a healthy diet, according to research led by Nicole Larson, a nutrition expert at the University of Minnesota.
Larson surveyed more than 1,600 men and women with an average age of 20 and a half years old.
Listen to Larson on Public Health Moment
January 22, 2009
Stress and Disordered Eating
 Can the breakup in a relationship, the divorce of your parents, or the death of a loved one prompt teens and young adults to engage in disordered eating habits?
Yes, according to findings from the Eating Among Teens research study at the University of Minnesota. Katie Loth, a University of Minnesota researcher, explains more about disordered eating.
• Listen to Loth on Public Health Moment
June 24, 2008
Overweight Teens and Dieting
If your teenager is overweight, don't encourage him or her to go on a diet—it might make matters worse.
That's according to a new study led by Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, a University of Minnesota expert on nutrition, obesity, and disordered eating.
• Listen to Neumark-Sztainer on Public Health Moment
April 22, 2008
Teens and TVs in the Bedroom
Researchers have found that teen-agers who have televisions in their bedrooms are more likely to engage in unhealthy habits than those without TVs in their rooms.
That's according to a study led by University of Minnesota epidemiologist Daheia Barr-Anderson.
• Listen to Barr-Anderson on Public Health Moment
April 16, 2008
Adolescents and Fast Food
More than 20 percent of adolescent males and females consume fast food more than three times a week.
That's according to research by Nicole Larson, an epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota. She tells us why this is a concern.
• Listen to Larson on Public Health Moment
January 14, 2008
The Benefits of Family Meals
 Girls who eat meals regularly with their families are less likely to use diet pills, laxatives, or other extreme measures to control their weight.
That's according to a five-year study involving more than 2,500 Minnesota adolescents. Dianne Neumark-Stzainer, a University of Minnesota epidemiologist, led the study.
• Listen to Neumark-Sztainer on Public Health Moment
November 6, 2007
Children's Health Study
 The University of Minnesota has been awarded nearly $14 million over five years to lead a national study assessing the effects of both environmental and genetic factors on children's health. The lead researcher is University of Minnesota professor Pat McGovern.
• Listen to McGovern on Public Health Moment
October 16, 2007
Lung Cancer and Minnesota Miners
 The relationship between respiratory disease and mining work has been a continuing concern in northeastern Minnesota, where unusually high rates of mesothelioma--a rare and fatal form of cancer--have been reported among males since the late 1980s. Jeffrey Mandel, an environmental health sciences professor at the University of Minnesota, is helping lead an effort to find out why.
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