Our out-of-whack eating and rising rates of obesity and chronic disease underscore the important role that health care providers, leaders and educators can play in counseling patients and creating programs that combat unhealthy fat. Members of the DMU community are responding.
At the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, 4,700 people packed the Varied Industries Building to celebrate that much-maligned yet even more-loved meat: bacon. Was that just good fried fun or a sign of our epically bad eating?
Two DMU electives serve up perspectives on food and nutrition at micro and macro levels. Students just eat them up.
Some might consider surgery a drastic solution to being overweight, but DMU alumnus Moses Shieh and many others consider obesity a drastic problem that merits it.
Watch DMU’s healthy cooking class in action! DMU is one of the few medical schools in the nation to offer its osteopathic medical students hands-on experiences in the kitchen. Find out why.
Even as we know we should eat “right” and exercise, we’re bombarded with a veritable buffet of unhealthy food options, confusing dietary information and aggressive food marketing campaigns. What’s a body to chew?
That isn’t a typo, it’s an official international sport: Joggling combines juggling and running, and DMU student Tyler Wishau is a world champion at it.
William Anderson, D.O.’56, wanted to be a doctor, not a civil rights activist. But when the fight to end segregation began in his hometown, he was at the forefront.
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