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A UBC Okanagan researcher is cautioning that a person’s poor eating habits established during post-secondary studies can contribute to future health issues including obesity, respiratory illnesses and depression, and urges universities to provide affordable healthy food options. Dr. Joan Bottorff, a Professor with UBCO’s School of Nursing, is one of several international researchers who published …
According to a new study done at the University of Bristol that analyzed BMI, mortality and health in 60,000 people including parents and their children to establish how being overweight affects risk of death, the harmfulness of being obese are underestimated. FIndings are published in the December issue of the International Journal of Epidemiology. According …