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Nestle to cut sugar and salt in breakfast cereals
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Oct 15 12
Nestle SA and General Mills Inc will cut sugar and salt in the children’s breakfast cereals they jointly market outside North America, the latest…
Can a few cherries a day keep gout away?
• Arthritis • • Dieting • • Rheumatic Diseases • Oct 13 12
Cherries may no longer be for just topping off ice cream sundaes; in a new study of people with gout, eating the fruit was…
Eat chocolate, win the Nobel Prize?
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Oct 11 12
Of all the chocolate research out there, the most unabashed tribute to the “dark gold” has to be a study just published in one…
New study sheds light on cancer-protective properties of milk
• Cancer • • Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Oct 03 12
Milk consumption has been linked to improved health, with decreased risks of diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and colon cancer. A group of scientists in…
Fish linked to heart failure risk, omega-3 results mixed
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • • Heart • Oct 03 12
For people conscious about their heart health, a new study suggests it may be best to eat fish instead of taking individual omega-3 fatty…
Military leaders point to schools in U.S. fat fight
• Children's Health • • Dieting • • Fat, Dietary • Sep 25 12
Former U.S. military leaders have identified a latent threat to the potential for a leaner, more agile fighting force: the school vending machine.
In…
Studies expand on soda’s role in growing obesity
• Dieting • • Obesity • Sep 24 12
As public health leaders step up their efforts to temper Americans’ thirst for sugar-sweetened beverages, a new set of published studies has found that…
Can it! Soda studies cite stronger link to obesity
• Dieting • • Obesity • Sep 23 12
As Americans debate what is most to blame for the nation’s obesity epidemic, researchers say they have the strongest evidence yet that sugary drinks…
Scientists conclude high fructose corn syrup should not be blamed for obesity
• Dieting • • Obesity • Sep 19 12
A new article published today in International Journal of Obesity found there is no evidence to suggest the current obesity epidemic in the…
Blood pressure diet works, but adherence drops among African-Americans
• Dieting • • Heart • Sep 19 12
Better adherence to the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet is associated with significant reductions in blood pressure. However, African-Americans may be less…
McDonald’s new menu item: Calorie counts
• Dieting • Sep 18 12
McDonald’s restaurants in the U.S. will soon get a new menu addition: The number of calories in the chain’s burgers and fries.
The world’s…
McDonald’s Posts Calorie Counts on Menu Boards
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Sep 16 12
McDonald’s is going to start posting calorie counts for all of its products on menu boards starting the week of September 16, 2012. The…
Fruit and vegetable school programs help a little
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Sep 14 12
School-based programs aimed at getting children to eat more fruits and vegetables were somewhat successful in a new review of the interventions - although…
People who read food labels stay thinner
• Dieting • • Obesity • Sep 13 12
An international team of scientists headed from the University of Santiago de Compostela ensures that reading the labels on food products is linked to…
Low ghrelin - reducing appetite at the cost of increased stress?
• Dieting • • Psychiatry / Psychology • • Weight Loss • Sep 13 12
Ghrelin is a hormone released by the lining of the stomach that promotes feeding behavior. Decreasing ghrelin levels could potentially help combat obesity -…
Gut microbes help the body extract more calories from food
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Sep 12 12
You may think you have your food all to yourself, but you’re actually sharing it with a vast community of microbes waiting within…
A carefully scheduled high-fat diet resets metabolism and prevents obesity, in Hebrew University research
• Dieting • • Fat, Dietary • • Obesity • Sep 12 12
New research from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem shows that a carefully scheduled high-fat diet can lead to a reduction in body weight and…
Roasting peanuts may cause peanut allergies
• Allergies • • Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Sep 12 12
According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine, some countries, like China, have a lower incidence of peanut allergy than the United States. In…
For heart health, fish oil pills not the answer: study
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • • Heart • Sep 12 12
Omega-3 fatty acids, found in oily fish such as sardines and salmon and once touted as a way of staving off heart disease…
Lighting and music affect food consumption and satisfaction in surprising ways
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Aug 30 12
It’s more than just the food that makes McDonalds different from a fine dining restaurant-the lighting and the music contribute to create two very…
Food stamps don’t alter kids’ sugary drink choices
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Aug 13 12
Despite hopes that the U.S. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) can steer people toward healthier eating choices, there’s no evidence the program currently influences…
Grapefruit juice lets patients take lower dose of cancer drug
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Aug 07 12
A glass a day of grapefruit juice lets patients derive the same benefits from an anti-cancer drug as they would get from more than…
Fewer students buy sodas, sports drinks still a problem: study
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Aug 07 12
Half as many adolescents as in 2006 can still buy high-calorie sodas in schools, but other sugary beverages remain easily available onsite, a survey…
Kids who drink soda may not drop milk
• Children's Health • • Dieting • Aug 04 12
Kids who drink sugary beverages are not necessarily switching to them and away from milk, according to a new study whose results contradict earlier…
Western fast food tied to heart risks in Asia
• Dieting • • Heart • Jul 22 12
Even relatively clean-living Singaporeans who regularly eat burgers, fries and other staples of U.S.-style fast food are at raised risk of diabetes and significantly…