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...diets with the same amount of calories, the study reveals that it is the number of calories that matters most. “I think that people can really pick whatever healthy diet they like,” said Frank M. Sacks, a professor at HSPH and lead author of the study, naming Mediterranean, low-fat, and vegan diets as examples. “Our results say that these diets would work the same.” The researchers said that these findings do not invalidate the effectiveness of any commercial diets, only that no one diet is better than...
...reinvented myself since ‘The Nanny,’” Drescher explained. “I am a uterine cancer survivor, but it took me two years and eight doctors to get a proper diagnosis.” The actress, author, and activist discussed the importance of awareness and early diagnosis and described the experience of finding out she had uterine cancer. She recalled, “I told my boyfriend, ‘we have to freeze an embryo!’ The doctor had me convinced I had 15 minutes of fertility left...
...Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and, most recently, The Devil We Know...
Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism James Wood and Visiting Lecturer on English Claire Messud represent two different ends of the literary world. One is an incisive critic, the other is a renowned author. And they’re married. FM caught up with them—as well as their five-year-old son, Lucien, out of school for a sick day—to discuss literature, criticism, and Harvard’s social scene.1. Fifteen Minutes: I notice you both teach class from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Mondays; do you carpool?Claire Messud...
Beverly Tatum, President of Spelman College, joined Harvard students yesterday to discuss issues of racial identity and education. Tatum is the author of “Choosing to be Black, the Ultimate White Privilege,” an essay about the decision of one white student to check the African American box on his college application. This year’s freshman class was required to read Tatum’s essay for freshman orientation. Tatum’s visit was intended to be a continuation of the conversations that took place in the fall. One issue addressed during...