Research Archives

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Healthy Diet, Healthy Planet?

Can diets impact the environment? Eating vegetarian meals twice per week will reduce greenhouse gas emissions related to food production by almost 10%.

Guest Author Claudia Hitaj

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After ALS Went Viral

After it went viral, the Ice Bucket Challenge raised more than $200 million in just eight weeks from donors across the world, but then what happened?

Fellow Julia Garcia

01.29.2020 a group of water bottles

100% Healthy Vending Machine

Limited information is available to characterize the impact of healthy vending machine policies, especially in regard to effects on nutrition and revenue.

Guest Authors Tony Kuo, Brenda Robles, Ranjana Wickramasekaran

01.27.2020 a close up of a game controller

Predicting Youth Aggression

Kids who play more aggressive video games show no more problem behaviors than those who play fewer, challenging other results from the same dataset.

Guest Author Chris Ferguson

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Health Equity

Rating Health After Redlining

Redlining, a vehicle of structural racism, is associated with slower neighborhood foreclosure recovery and poorer self-rated health among Detroit residents.

Fellow Jori Fortson

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American Dreams and Diets

Most immigrants are healthier than native-born Americans upon arrival, but this immigrant health advantage tends to decline the longer one lives in the US.

Fellow Oluwatobi Alliyu

01.20.2020 a banana on a yellow background

Prescribing Fruits and Vegetables

Through partnerships with supermarkets and health providers, it is possible to improve consumption of fruits and vegetables among low-income residents.

Fellow Oluwatobi Alliyu

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Thirsty for Safe Water at School

There is room for improvement across the country in both urban and rural schools to better their water access and testing standards.

Fellow Greg Kantor

01.15.2020 a close up of asparagus

Healthy Herbivores

Availability of vegetarian options in cafeterias promoted healthier diets. The move would lower emissions of human-generated greenhouse gases if scaled.

Fellow Greg Kantor

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