Folio Story with SLIS Associate Professor Tami Oliphant: Heart health messages for women may backfire, say U of A researchers
Messages meant to empower women with heart disease to live a healthier lifestyle may have the opposite effect, according to University of Alberta research. “Women are told they need to exercise more, they need to lose weight, they need to be social and all these heart-healthy activities, but we found that these messages made the women feel guilty, like they had caused their heart disease,” said Tami Oliphant, a professor of library and information studies, who conducted the study with...