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Browsing by Author "Leslie Lyttle"

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    Blue Zones Project
    (2009-06-25) Finnegan, John; Leslie Lyttle
    Welcome to Public Health Moment from the University of Minnesota. 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 Lyttle, a University of Minnesota epidemiology professor, is co-director of the project. Lyttle 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. With another Public Health Moment I’m John Finnegan.
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    Causes of childhood obesity and $3.4 million study
    (2006-11-13) Finnegan, John; Leslie Lyttle
    Welcome to Public Health Moment from the University of Minnesota. What are the causes for the rise of childhood obesity? An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Minnesota, led by epidemiologist Leslie Lytle, aims to find out.