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Posted: 05/13/2013
When it comes to making healthy lifestyle changes, which should come first — changing your diet or becoming more physically active?Researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine report in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine that neither strategy was likely to help individuals meet healthy eating and fitness recommendations and stick with them for a year. For ...
Posted: 05/08/2013
You walk into a fast food restaurant and examine the menu. You could get a salad with grilled chicken and dressing on the side. Or you could get a double cheeseburger.Seeing the calories listed next to each item isn't likely to affect your decision, according to a new study being presented at the Experimental Biology 2013 meeting this week. But seeing the amount of time it would...
Posted: 04/23/2013
While growing up, many children may have heard "clean your plate" or been denied candy. But how do parental attitudes toward food affect a child's weight? Denying certain foods to children or pressuring them to eat every bit of a meal are common practices among many parents. But researchers at the University of Minnesota found parents who restricted foods...
Posted: 04/16/2013
The numbers are pretty grim: More than half of all 85-year-olds suffer some form of dementia.But here's the good news: Brain researchers say there are ways to boost brain power and stave off problems in memory and thinking.In other words, brain decline is not necessarily an inevitable part of aging. "It's simply not pre-destined for all human beings," Bryan James tells Shots....
Posted: 04/09/2013
We've all heard that eating fish is good for us. Regularly eating fish has been linked to a host of health benefits – for our hearts, our eyes, and our brains.Now here's some more good news: A study published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine suggests that eating oily fish once or twice a week could maybe – just maybe — add a few years to your life.Oily...
Posted: 04/02/2013
Fried chicken fingers, hamburgers, French fries and sugary sodas dominate children's menus in most chain restaurants, and most kids meals fall short of meeting basic nutritional standards, a nonprofit health advocacy group said Thursday.Some 97% of nearly 3,500 kids meals analyzed don't meet basic nutritional standards, the Center for Science in the Public Interest...
Posted: 03/26/2013
How'd you like to get paid to lose weight? Financial incentives can help improve your odds of dropping pounds, according to a new study.Researchers at the Mayo Clinic followed 100 Mayo employees over the course of a year as they took educational classes on how to eat healthy and lose weight.The employees were broken up into several groups - some of which got financial incentives...
Posted: 03/19/2013
Whether it's green tea that warms you up, or coffee that gives you that morning lift, a new study finds both can help cut the risk of suffering a stroke.The study, published in the American Heart Association journal Stroke, included 82,369 men and women in Japan.Researchers found that the more green tea a person drank, the more it reduced the risk of suffering a stroke."It's...
Posted: 03/12/2013
Tired? Surely those cookies will help. And a burger. Chips. And a cupcake. Yeah, soda, too.People do eat more when they're short of sleep. And that impulse to snarf when sleepy can cause quick weight gain, according to a new study.Since Americans are chronically sleep deprived, it's no wonder that our waistlines have been expanding. One-third of American workers say they're sleeping...
Posted: 03/05/2013
In his new book, "Salt Sugar Fat," Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter Michael Moss takes readers on a tour of the $1 trillion processed food industry, and the sights aren't pretty.The average American eats 33 pounds of cheese and 70 pounds of sugar a year, and health experts say those trends triggered the obesity epidemic that has left millions at risk of heart disease,...
