Harvard Nurses' Health Study

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• May 11, 2012
  Skim Milk and Acne

  Three Harvard studies linking acne with dairy consumption in adolescent girls and boys blamed the sex steroid hormone content naturally found in cow's milk (even without added hormones), particularly..
• May 10, 2012
  National Dairy Council on Acne and Milk

  The Harvard Nurses' Study found an association between high school dairy intake and severe physician-diagnosed acne.
• March 14, 2012
  Harvard’s Meat and Mortality Studies

  Monday, March 12, 2012, the Harvard Health Professionals Follow-up Study and the Harvard Nurses' Health Study concluded that red meat consumption was associated with living a significantly shorter..
• November 29, 2011
  Constructing a Cognitive Portfolio

  Different fruits and vegetables appear to support different cognitive domains of the brain, so both variety and quantity are important.
• November 1, 2011
  Plant Protein Preferable

  Since foods are a package deal, Dr. Walter Willet, the Chair of Harvard's nutrition department, recommends we emphasize plant sources of protein rather than animal sources.
• September 22, 2011
  Multivitamin Supplements and Breast Cancer

  New research suggests that multivitamin use may significantly increase the risk of breast cancer and prostate cancer.
• January 12, 2011
  Meat Hormones & Female Infertility

  What is behind the purported link between poultry consumption and anovulatory infertility?