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Dr. Jean-Pierre Issa Details the Positive Impacts of Reducing Caloric Intake

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Jean-Pierre Issa, MD

Ivanhoe Broadcast News produced a story about the potential benefits of coffee, as long as you watch those added sugars and creamers. Jean-Pierre Issa, MD, Director of the Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University (LKSOM) and Professor of Medicine at LKSOM, provided comments for the story and described how cutting back on calories (like those coffee additives) can positively affect your health. The piece was picked up by KPRC-TV in Houston, Texas; WFMZ-TV in Allentown, Pennsylvania; WNDU-TV in South Bend, Indiana; KSAT-TV in San Antonio, Texas; WJMN-TV in Escanaba, Michigan; WINK-TV in Fort Myers, Florida; WFRV-TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin; KFDX-TV in Wichita Falls, Texas; and WSLS-TV in Roanoke, Virginia.