Best Diet Plans

A recent Kansas State University study found that the availability of supermarkets — quite than the lack of them — increased the risk of obesity for low-income women living in small cities. This suggests that policies to increase healthful eating behaviors might need to be tailored based on geographic location. K-State researchers studied the availability of ... Read more

Brace yourself for the silliest fad diet yet — it's called the Air Diet! A French-created weight loss plan where you consume, well you've very likely guessed it, nothing at all! The diet was apparently made popular by a Dolce & Gabbana campaign, which featured Madonna and other celebrities holding food up to their mouths, but ... Read more

No work is known in the literature to date which provides a long-term and generalised valuation of the health of children fed intravenously in their own home. There have been, for example, articles that have made mention of a concrete case of a child who had received such treatment and had suffered a pulmonary thromboembolism ... Read more

Americans recognize things need to change in the grocery aisle, and they support Uncle Sam's efforts to overhaul what is involved in their food and on the packages. The more than half also believe they are individually responsible for making the right food choices to avoid obesity, but will readily admit the government's aid to ... Read more

The Society for Nutrition Education (SNE) has partnered with the American Dietetic Association (ADA) and American Society for Nutrition (ASN) to publish a position paper, “Position of the American Dietetic Association, American Society for Nutrition, and Society for Nutrition Education: Food and Nutrition Programs for Community-Residing Older Adults,” focusing on access to safe and adequate ... Read more

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have identified a new syndrome affecting potentially thousands of hospital inpatients. Coined SHAKE (Supplement-associated Hyperammonemia After C(K)achetic Episode), the condition, which results in altered mental status and difficulty walking, can be prevented by excluding high protein dietary supplements in a patients' diet if they have skilled poor ... Read more

A new study from the US found that normal weight women in their 40s and elder who drank a light to moderate amount of alcohol gained less weight and had a lower risk of becoming obese and overweight compared to their non-drinking counterparts. The researchers, from the Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the Harvard School of ... Read more

In this age of political correctness and the outcry for the humane treatment of animals, some are truly thinking outside the box. Chef Daniel Angerer has been serving up cheese made from his wife's breast milk in his New York City restaurant. The chef said that he is every time interested about new flavors so he ... Read more