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A novel helps girls lose weight
posted October 15th, 2008Alexa Russell, a fourth-year medical student, and Sarah Armstrong, M.D., director of Duke’s Healthy Lifestyles Program, are featured in news articles this week about their study that shows reading a novel helped obese girls lose weight.
In a The New York Times Well Blog post, Armstrong said, “It’s such a positive, easy intervention.”
Read “Healthful Messages, Wrapped in Fiction” by Tara Parker-Pope here.
The News & Observer also ran a story about the research.
Read more about the study and the book’s effect on the girls in the press release from Duke Medicine News & Communications.