San Francisco Chronicle featured a study coauthored by Mireille Jacobson on why financial incentives to encourage vaccination may not work. “(T)his is not the road to getting to ‘herd immunity.’ It might be that these small incentives nudge a few people one way or another, but it’s really just not going to get us anywhere near where we hope to get … we’re not nudging our way out of this epidemic,” said Jacobson.
Inverse featured research by Valter Longo on how fasting affects the body and the potential for a fasting-mimicking diet to improve health. “If you fast every day for 21 hours, yes, you might get lots of benefits,” Longo says, “but you’re going to get a compliance of probably less than 1 percent.”
The pandemic kept kids home from school and upended the workplace, placing Americans who care for aging family members under even more pressure.
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“We are looking forward to experiencing everything in our life together... We believe that aging can be a positive experience, and growing older together is sweet.”
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The USC Daryl and Irwin Simon Nutrition for Alzheimer’s Disease Prevention Research Fund was created to explore the role diet can play in the prevention or delay of Alzheimer’s disease.
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Friends of the Leonard Davis School and Dean Emeritus Edward Schneider joined with foundations and companies to endow the new Schneider Scholarship Fund.
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Kris Brannon wants to level the playing field in long-term care in Black communities. Her experience in women’s tackle football is going to help her do that.
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While many diets have been studied for effectiveness in preventing obesity and heart disease in both mice and humans, research on the effects and benefits of short, periodic cycles of fasting on obesity and heart health are lacking.
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Three students share how their gerontology education empowers them to help older adults become healthier and happier.
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Washington Post featured Valter Longo on how recent research points to interventions in diet, exercise and mental outlook that could slow down aging and age-related diseases. A multidisciplinary approach involving evidence-based strategies “could get it all right,” he said. The article also appeared in Anchorage Daily News.
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