What 3 Steps Reduce Childhood Obesity By 40%?

What 3 Steps Reduce Childhood Obesity By 40%?

New research in Pediatrics reveals some useful take-home messages for parents of preschoolers. Q. How can you simply lower the odds of your child becoming obese?A. There are 3 easy steps you can take. What are they?

Regularly eat the evening meal as a family (>5 nights per week). Ensure adequate nighttime sleep for your child on weekdays (≥10.5 ... Read more

When The Gym Becomes Dangerous

When The Gym Becomes Dangerous

Data from the Consumer Products Safety Commission reveals the gym can pose some hazards, with more than 50,000 exercisers landing in the ER annually. Here are some of the most usual culprits, and how you can avoid getting injured. It turns out the treadmill is the most usual source of injuries. Falls account for ... Read more

Mediterranean Diet Lowers Risk Of First Heart Attack

Mediterranean Diet Lowers Risk Of First Heart Attack

Ediets That first heart attack has got to be a shocker. You're at the bar watching the game, dipping Buffalo wings into blue cheese and – BAM! You're on the floor grabbing your chest and yelling for your drunken buddies to call 911. If just you'd been popping olives instead of jalapeño poppers. Because a new study shows ... Read more

Tried And Tested Tips To Aid Your Kids Eat Healthy

Tried And Tested Tips To Aid Your Kids Eat Healthy

Getting our children to eat healthy can surely be a challenge. But, with childhood obesity at an all-time high, it's worth doing whatever we can now, before it's overly late. At the launch of a new campaign to reduce childhood obesity in America, Michelle Obama explained her own girls had been a tiny overweight before some ... Read more

Recession Making Americans Thirst For Cheaper Booze

Recession Making Americans Thirst For Cheaper Booze

Sasidhar Blog Go to a club in New York City and order a drink – no, not a Shirley Temple – a real drink. I'm talking hooch, ice, and a mixer. Go on, attempt it. But, don't be shocked if that cocktail costs you more than $10, plus tip. That's why today, amidst a major U.S. ... Read more

Fruit And Vegetable Consumption Improved By Online Programs

Fruit And Vegetable Consumption Improved By Online Programs

Online programs that furnish data and tips about fruits and vegetables may be the clue to getting more Americans to eat healthier, tell researchers at Henry Ford Hospital. Researchers found that when given access to an online program about fruits and vegetables, participants increased their everyday fruit and vegetable intake by more than two servings. Many ... Read more

Mizzou Scientist Creates A Chicken Substitute, Providing A Low-cost, Delicious Way To Add Soy To The Diet

Mizzou Scientist Creates A Chicken Substitute, Providing A Low-cost, Delicious Way To Add Soy To The Diet

Sure, some delicacies might taste only like chicken, but they normally feel and look much different. Soy flesh alternatives, such as the soy burger, have become more popular recently, with increased sales of eight percent from 2007 to 2008. Now, scientists at the University of Missouri have created a soy substitute for chicken that is ... Read more

When The Scales Lie: “normal Weight Obesity”

When The Scales Lie:

sxc.hu: arinas74 Just when you started feeling fine in your skinny jeans, a new study reveals people of medium weight may really be “normal weight obese.” Apparently, as numerous as 30 million Americans could be categorized in this way, meaning they're at a higher risk of obesity-related diseases, such as diabetes, high cholesterol and heart disease. 6,171 Americans ... Read more

Discovery That Viagra Enhances Fetal Growth In Female Sheep May Have Human Implications

Discovery That Viagra Enhances Fetal Growth In Female Sheep May Have Human Implications

A joke among two Texas AgriLife Research scientists later turned into a fully-funded study. Viagra can help fetal development in female sheep. Female sheep (ewes) are an agriculturally significant species, which can serve as an superb animal model for studying the physiology of human pregnancy, the researchers said. Viagra (sildenafil citrate), which is used to treat ... Read more

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