Obese women are as much as 28 percent less likely to become pregnant and have a successful pregnancy, according to research that earned a Michigan State University professor a national award.
Publish Date: Nov. 03, 2009 | Multimedia: 
A new mobile air research laboratory will help a team of researchers led by a Michigan State University professor better understand the damaging health effects of air pollution and why certain airborne particles - emitted from plants and vehicles - induce disease and illness.
Publish Date: Oct. 07, 2009 | Multimedia:
Michigan State University is teaming up with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Grand Rapids Public Schools to lead a $1 million health initiative to reduce childhood obesity by increasing physical activity, improving nutrition and collaborating with school staff and parents.
Publish Date: Aug. 05, 2009 | Multimedia:
While the massive weight loss associated with gastric bypass surgery is beneficial, some patients may face malnutrition, poor wound healing and infection as their immune systems adjust to the extreme decrease in food consumption, according to a Michigan State University researcher.
Publish Date: July 30, 2009 | Multimedia:
Reaching children at a young age can have a huge impact on their future health and diet, helping stem obesity and other chronic health conditions, according to a Michigan State University pediatrics professor.
Publish Date: June 10, 2009 | Multimedia:
A new link between body fat and cancer identified by a Michigan State University researcher underscores obesity’s health risk and could lead to new cancer treatment and prevention strategies.
Publish Date: April 30, 2009 | Multimedia:
Prenatal exposure to an insecticide commonly used up until the 1970s may play a role in the obesity epidemic in women, according to a new study involving several Michigan State University researchers.
Publish Date: March 19, 2009 | Multimedia:
Healthy infant feeding can help stem the staggering rise in childhood obesity, according to a Michigan State University nursing professor who will use a $1.5 million federal grant to start a new three-year infant feeding program.
Publish Date: Jan. 20, 2009 | Multimedia:
As economic pressures continue to mount for families statewide, Michigan State University doctors are seeing an alarming rise in obesity in the low-income children they treat.
Publish Date: Jan. 14, 2009 | Multimedia:
Only 3 percent of kids’ meals served at fast-food restaurants met federal dietary guidelines in the first study to examine the nutrient quality of such meals in a major U.S. metropolitan market.
Publish Date: Dec. 22, 2008 | Multimedia:
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