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Lack of fiber puts teens at risk of diabetes, study says

...Augusta are following her example, and it could have serious health consequences, said researchers at the Georgia Prevention Institute at Georgia Health Sciences University.A study of more than 550 adolescents ages 14-18 recruited from Augusta...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/health/2012-05-29/lack-fiber-puts-teens-risk-d
Early warning signs

...Augusta State University.If researchers at the Georgia Prevention Institute at Georgia Health Sciences University are right...were in middle-aged to older people.The Georgia Prevention Institute is looking at what had once been an unimaginable...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2011-06-26/early-warning-signs
Fructose gives adolescents more belly fat, increases disease risk, GHSU study finds

...Sciences University.In a study to be published next month in The Journal of Nutrition, researchers at GHSU's Georgia Prevention Institute followed 559 adolescents and their consumption of fructose, a sugar commonly added to foods and drinks as...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/health/2012-01-06/fructose-gives-adolescents-m
Youths with sickle cell disease learn about illness

...matter of minutes."See how it came down?" said Dr. Vernon A. Barnes, an assistant professor at the Georgia Prevention Institute at Georgia Health Sciences University. "It's because you've been resting."Shakeyma also is learning...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2011-07-27/youths-sickle-cell-disease-le
Some Augusta teens prefer calls to texts

...It was so unexpected it was "shocking," said Dr. Martha Tingen, a professor of pediatrics at GHSU and Georgia Prevention Institute, and co-principal investigator of the larger study now under way."It is shocking to me because I think...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2011-08-10/some-augusta-teens-prefer-cal
Augusta attractive to the homeless

...said.Amanda McDougald, 27, said she has witnessed it firsthand.McDougald, a research associate for the Georgia Prevention Institute, was having dinner on the patio at the Pizza Joint a few weeks ago when a man walked up to her table and begged...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2010-08-15/augusta-attractive-homeless
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MCG employee charged in thefts

...the school said.Murphy, who has been at MCG since October 2008, was working on a diabetes study for the Georgia Prevention Institute at MCG. She is accused of taking eight $25 gift cards meant to compensate families for home visits that are...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2010-03-18/mcg-employee-charged-thefts
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MCG's pediatrics chief uses business sense

...he said. He plans to build on research efforts already under way in the department, such as those at the Georgia Prevention Institute, and plans to add at least 10 physician-scientists in key areas to build on strengths. By establishing...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/09/14/met_548081.shtml
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More than a third of Georgia, S. Carolina children are obese

...unless we can get them to be healthier now," Dr. Marks said. For some, that may already be too late. The Georgia Prevention Institute at the Medical College of Georgia has done some of the most comprehensive studies on the impact of obesity...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/07/02/met_529593.shtml
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Study suggests activity helps children manage aggression

Shena Pringle urges the children to do another lap around the gym at the Georgia Prevention Institute at the Medical College of Georgia. "One more time," 10-year-old Brasha Burns said as she puffed by. But as the group came...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2008/11/19/met_484053.shtml
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