Sleep well to avoid insulin resistance

A study shows that one night’s missed sleep can cause impairment to insulin sensitivity equal to 6 months on a high-fat diet, emphasizing a need for healthy sleeping habits.

Multistate foodborne disease outbreaks sicken thousands, highlight need for action

Government and food industries can work together to make food safer. Multistate outbreaks cause more than half of all deaths in foodborne disease outbreaks despite accounting for only a tiny…

Links found between hunger and health

Recommendation that doctors screen patients for food insecurity.It may come as a surprise that, even after the Great Recession ended in 2009, almost 50 million people in the United States are food…

Duke obesity experts in special issue on food and health

Two Duke Global Health Institute faculty members have articles in the November issue of Health Affairs, which is devoted entirely to the subject of food and health, marking the first time the…

Living alone can dent healthy diets

People who live alone are more likely to have unhealthy diets lacking key foods, QUT research has found.