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Can fish for dinner lead to diabetes?
• Diabetes • • Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Oct 14 09
Making sure fish ends up on your dinner plate a couple of times a week may be a good way to cut your risk…
Water drinkers may have better diets
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Oct 13 09
People who get much of their daily liquids from plain water rather than other beverages may have healthier diets overall, a study suggests.
Using…
Los Angeles fast-food restaurant ban unlikely to cut obesity, study finds
• Dieting • • Obesity • Oct 06 09
Restrictions on fast-food chain restaurants in South Los Angeles are not addressing the main differences between neighborhood food environments and are unlikely to improve…
Fruit juices contain more vitamin C than their labels indicate
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Oct 05 09
A team of pharmacists from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) has established that the levels of vitamin C in many fruit juices…
Paradoxically, food insecurity may be underlying contributor to overweight
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Oct 01 09
Both household food insecurity (HFInsec) and childhood overweight are significant problems in the United States. Paradoxically, being food-insecure may be an underlying contributor to…
Social background weighs heavily on teenage diet
• Dieting • Sep 25 09
Teenagers’ attitudes to diet and weight are shaped by their social class, according to new research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.
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New evidence that green tea may help improve bone health
• Dieting • Sep 16 09
Researchers in Hong Kong are reporting new evidence that green tea — one of the most popular beverages consumed worldwide and now available as…
Mediterranean diet tops low-fat diet for diabetics
• Diabetes • • Dieting • • Fat, Dietary • Sep 01 09
A low-carbohydrate, Mediterranean-style diet is more effective than a typical low-fat, calorie-restricted diet for diabetes management, according to a study released Monday.
Not only…
Whole Grains = Whole Health
• Dieting • • Fat, Dietary • Aug 31 09
As the days get longer and we inch closer to bathing-suit season, health often takes a back burner to fad diets.
Lona Sandon, assistant…
Eating less red meat can prevent cancer, heart attacks and global warming
• Cancer • • Dieting • • Heart • Aug 31 09
Raising livestock also accounts for around 18% of greenhouse gases. It is therefore possible to act against climate change and reduce cardiovascular and cancer…
Low-Carb Diets Linked to Atherosclerosis and Impaired Blood Vessel Growth
• Dieting • • Heart • Aug 25 09
Even as low-carbohydrate/high-protein diets have proven successful at helping individuals rapidly lose weight, little is known about the diets’ long-term effects on vascular health.
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Smoking may worsen malnutrition in developing nations
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Aug 24 09
A new study finds that smokers in rural Indonesia finance their habit by dipping into the family food budget—which ultimately results in poorer nutrition…
Daylight could help control our weight
• Dieting • • Fat, Dietary • • Food & Nutrition • • Obesity • Aug 22 09
Exciting research into Brown adipose tissue (BAT) — brown fat, which is found in abundance in hibernating animals and newborn babies — could lead…
‘DASH’ diet may prevent kidney stones
• Dieting • • Urine Problems • Aug 18 09
A diet widely recommended for lowering blood pressure may also curb people’s risk of developing kidney stones, a new study suggests.
The diet,…
More evidence that fish is brain food
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Aug 17 09
Older adults in developing countries who regularly eat fish seem to have a lower risk of dementia, a new study suggests.
Researchers found that…
Tips to Stop Emotional Eating (Because Food Doesn’t Fix Stress)
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Aug 13 09
For emotional eaters, food is a best friend, there to boost sprits, calm stress and alleviate boredom.
But according to the August issue of…
Do high-fat diets make us stupid and lazy?
• Dieting • • Fat, Dietary • • Neurology • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Aug 12 09
Short-term memory getting worse? Exercise getting harder? Examine your diet. New research published online in The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) showed that in less…
Exercise and Mediterranean-type diet combined associated with lower risk for Alzheimer’s
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • • Neurology • Aug 12 09
Both being more physically active and adhering to a Mediterranean-type diet appears to be associated with reduced Alzheimer’s risk, according to a new…
High-fat diet affects physical and memory abilities of rats after 9 days
• Dieting • • Fat, Dietary • Aug 11 09
Rats fed a high-fat diet show a stark reduction in their physical endurance and a decline in their cognitive ability after just nine days,…
What you eat depends on with whom you eat
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Aug 05 09
If you are a woman who dines with a man, chances are you choose food with fewer calories than if you dine with a…
Low-calorie diet slows aging in monkeys
• Dieting • Jul 10 09
A 20-year study of monkeys shows that a reduced-calorie diet pays off in less disease and longer life, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
They…
Lots of soy may lower breathing problem risks
• Dieting • • Respiratory Problems • Jul 10 09
Eating high amounts of soy could lower the risk of the breathing disorder known as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, researchers report.
Cigarette…
Milk at breakfast may mean less hunger at lunch
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Jul 02 09
Having a glass of skim milk instead of fruit juice at breakfast may help people feel more full all the way up to lunch,…
How a cup of coffee keeps your breath smelling sweet
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • • Respiratory Problems • Jun 28 09
Coffee could hold the secret to keeping bad breath at bay.
The beans contain compounds that prevent bacteria releasing the gases behind halitosis, research…
Parents’ diets show little effect on kids’ eating
• Children's Health • • Dieting • Jun 12 09
The way parents eat may have little impact on their children’s diets, a new study suggests.
Using survey data from nearly 1,500 U.S. families,…