Saturated Fat Consumption Still isn't Associated with Heart Attack Risk

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition just published the results of a major Japanese study on saturated fat intake and cardiovascular disease (1). Investigators measured dietary habits, then followed 58,453 men and women for 14.1 years. They found that people who ate the most saturated fat had the same heart attack risk as those who ate the least*. Furthermore, people who ate the most saturated fat had a lower risk of stroke than those who...

First Visioning Event a Success!

Thank you to all that came out for the first of three visioning sessions to help craft a vision for a healthier Buffalo. More photos and information to come soon! Here is a teaser from the youth session - the youth of Buffalo have some really great ideas and they know what it takes to be healt...

Signal Boost: GHC and ADVANCE Resume Databases

Image by NanakiFor those of you on the job market this fall, there are two databases that might be worth submitting your resume/CV to:- Grace Hopper Resume Database- Rice University NSF ADVANCE Program's National Database of Underrepresented PhD Students and PostdocsThe GHC one is more for CS/EE/IT type folks, but the Rice one is much broader - in addition to engineering, it also includes the...