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Purdue scientists have developed a new app that translates any foreign menu into English. The science behind it is called “lightweight algorithms” but the important part is that we can now eat ever weirder foods on our overseas adventures and brag about it to our hometown buddies.
This study was published a super high impact journal – Nature Neuroscience, which hopefully legitimizes all of the hours we at the DiSH Lab spend ogling cute animal pictures.
In a neat study in mice, researchers found that mice that live in enriched environments with 15-20 other rats and lots of toys change their fat tissue from normal white fat to the calorie-burning brown fat. The researchers aren’t sure why – they say that maybe it’s a little bit of added stress from living […]
President Obama has declared September 2011 as National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month. He hopes to eradicate childhood obesity within one generation. If this interests you, you might want to check out Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move initiative, focused on physical activity to promote health.
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In a fascinating conference presentation out of UNC Chapel Hill, researchers looked at caloric intake in a nationwide sample of children and adolescents and found that overweight and obese children and teens actually consume FEWER calories than normal weight children. Hopefully this study will help people reconsider whether putting their kid on a diet is […]
A new book called “Maggie Goes on a Diet” is about to be released, and even before it’s out the book is stirring up a lot of controversy. In it, 14-year-old Maggie starts out overweight and unhappy. Then she diets, loses weight and becomes popular. You can find coverage of the controversy and very sound […]
A paper first-authored by DiSH Lab collaborator Eli Puterman was just published in Psychosomatic Medicine – the prestigious journal with the terrible name. We already know that many people, when they’re stressed, tend to ruminate on their negative feelings. This rumination can even affect the body by making it secrete cortisol, a stress hormone. In this […]
We here at the DiSH Lab LOVE ANIMALS. If it were up to us, the DiSH Lab would double as an animal shelter. Since zoning laws make that illegal, we will have to get our kicks from this picture of Yoda:
If you are interested in pursuing a Ph.D. in social or health psychology, the first step is to contact Dr. T at janet.tomiyama@rutgers.edu to discuss your research interests. Step 2 is to go to the Opportunities page to submit an online application to the Graduate Program.
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