Large Harvard Cohort Studies Show Eating Nuts Reduces All Cause and Cause Specific Mortality Dose Response Demonstrated Short Clever Video at NEJM Explains The Results A large epidemiologic study by researchers at Harvard published in the New England Journal of Medicine this month has confirmed previously published findings about the health benefits of eating nuts in combating chronic health diseases and in reducing deaths from all causes, especially when consumed several
times a week. In the Nurses Study and the Health Professionals Follow Up Study, investigators took frequent selfreported histories of nut consumption from over 76,000 women and 42,000 -Nuts continued on pg 2
Florida Epidemiologist Goes Public With Her Humor To Start A T-Shirt Company How’s this for an epidemiologist’s marriage vow? I promise I will always fail to reject you! Tammie Johnson an assistant professor at the University of North Florida with a sense of humor has decided to go public and is now marketing her brand of humor online emblazoned on t-shirts. How does it happen that one goes from being a relatively new faculty
member in epidemiology and biostatistics to becoming a new business entrepreneur? Johnson told the Monitor she started using humor to polish her teaching and presentation styles. “The material in epidemiology and biostatistics can be dry,” she said. Because of her sense of humor, unusual thoughts would pop into her head while teaching. She started using these ideas and joking around in a -Humor continues on page 2
In This Issue: -3Book Corner Interview with Michael Bracken -5New Humor Contest -7On the Light Side Revisited -10Social & Economic Status May Be a Death Sentence -12Jobs
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November 2013 Volume Thirty Four Number Eleven