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Oct 19
Graphic of Lauren Brown that has a portrait of her smiling next to her title, "Assistant Professor of Gerontology"

Assistant Professor Lauren Brown: Understanding and Improving Aging among Black Americans though Data Science and Storytelling

By Podcast
Lauren Brown is an assistant professor at the USC Leonard Davis School. Her research uses publicly available data to uncover the unique difficulties Black Americans face in maintaining physical and psychological well-being as they age. Her lab both challenges the methods used to study older Black adults and strives to…
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Sep 26

Six easy ways to reduce the sugar and salt in your diet (Washington Post)

By Alzheimer's and Dementia, In the News

Washington Post quoted Cary Kreutzer of USC Leonard Davis on the amount of processed foods that Americans consume and ways to reduce these in your diet. “Americans are consuming far more processed foods than ever. … Ultra-processed foods are being developed that have ‘hedonic’ — highly pleasurable — qualities, and salt and sugar play a significant role in promoting the hedonic properties in foods.”   The story also appeared in Consumer Reports.