Kiersten Frenchu

Kiersten Frenchu, M.D., is residency-trained in Internal Medicine at Rhode Island Hospital and is currently pursuing a fellowship in Cardiology.

Kiersten Frenchu

What’s the Skinny on the Obesity Epidemic? How Calorie Label Laws Empower Consumers and Save Lives

Within the past two decades the prevalence of obesity in the United States has risen dramatically, enough to classify the occurrence as an epidemic.5 Obesity is attributed to 300,000 annual deaths and is associated with a long list of health effects including type 2-diabetes, hypertension, and impaired quality of life.4 Current estimates of America’s obese

Posted on February 28, 2017 in News