Reducing Risk of Childhood Obesity Starts Very, Very Early
• Children's Health • • Obesity • May 21 10
A new report finds combating childhood obesity may start in the womb. Health experts and even First Lady Michelle Obama agree that’s why it’s…
WHO targets child obesity with food marketing curbs
• Children's Health • • Obesity • May 21 10
Health ministers, alarmed at the growing number of obese children, agreed on Thursday to try to reduce children’s consumption of junk food and soft…
Chocolate Enthusiasts And Obesity
• Food & Nutrition • • Obesity • May 21 10
Chocolates have become one of the most well-liked confectioneries ever created and sold. Chocolate lovers, young and old, rich and poor, have found themselves…
Link between obesity and gut bacteria discovered
• Obesity • May 21 10
Obesity now affects 34% of the US population, according to the Centers for Disease Control. And obesity and overweight together affects 67%. Obesity raises…
Abdominal fat at middle age associated with greater risk of dementia
• Fat, Dietary • • Obesity • • Psychiatry / Psychology • May 20 10
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine determined that excess abdominal fat places otherwise healthy, middle-aged people at risk for dementia later in life.…
Pistachios offer multiple benefits
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • May 20 10
Pistachio nuts, eaten as part of a healthy diet, can increase the levels of antioxidants in the blood of adults with high cholesterol, according…
More physical activity leads to less obesity—often, but not always
• Obesity • May 20 10
It may seem intuitive that greater amounts of exercise lead to less obesity, but an Indiana University study has found that this conventional…
Synthetic eye prosthesis
• Eye / Vision Problems • May 20 10
Donor corneas are a rarity: In Germany alone, each year roughly 7,000 patients wait for that miniscule piece of tissue. An implant made of…
Reducing niacin intake can prevent obesity
• Obesity • May 20 10
Dietary factors have long been known to play a major role in the development of obesity. The global increasing prevalence of obesity suggests that…
Neither heat nor cold may do much for backache
• Backache • May 20 10
When back and neck aches strike, do you wonder whether to reach for a heating pad or an ice pack? A small study suggests…
Prescription drug use by US children on the rise
• Children's Health • • Public Health • May 20 10
Children were the leading growth demographic for the pharmaceutical industry in 2009, with the increase of prescription drug use among youngsters nearly four times…
Breast-fed babies less feverish after immunization
• Children's Health • • Immunology • May 20 10
Breastfeeding may protect babies from post-vaccine fevers, according to a new study in the journal Pediatrics.
It’s not uncommon for an infant’s temperature to…
Practice Yoga and Ward Off Diabetes
• Alternative Medicine • • Diabetes • May 20 10
Yoga is an ancient Vedic practice of various physical postures and breathing techniques to reduce stress and improve health. Yoga has been derived from…
Experts warn on rising obesity levels
• Obesity • May 20 10
Obesity levels in Ireland have reached “epidemic proportions” affecting up to a fifth of all adults and resulting in 2,000 premature deaths annually, according…
Food industry pledges to cut products’ calories
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • May 20 10
Several of the nation’s largest food companies say they are going on a diet.
A coalition of retailers, food and beverage manufacturers and industry…
Too Fat to Fight: Obesity Now a National Security Issue
• Obesity • • Public Health • May 20 10
Just as the U.S. military was finally making its recruitment quotas for the first time in years (with the unwelcome help of a downwardly…
Obesity epidemic is a smokescreen
• Obesity • • Public Health • May 20 10
In politics, the crisis game works like this: pet issues are turned into national concerns, which then become the object of study for social…
Low Blood Sugar May Increase Mortality Rate of Ill Patients
• Diabetes • • Mortality and Morbidity • May 20 10
Individuals may want to consider taking natural diabetes supplements as a way to curb their blood sugar, as a new study finds that hypoglycemia…
Calcium Deficiencies May Lead To Obesity, Osteoporosis
• Obesity • May 20 10
A new study has found that a calcium deficiency early in life could lead to poor bone health and a higher risk of developing…
Smoking Hits New Low for White California Kids
• Children's Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • May 19 10
California kids are less likely than ever to start smoking, thanks to the most ambitious, longest-running anti-tobacco program in the world.
Yet, when it…
Yogurt-like drink DanActive reduced rate of common infections in daycare children
• Dieting • • Immunology • • Infections • May 19 10
The probiotic yogurt-like drink DanActive reduced the rate of common sicknesses such as ear infections, sinusitis, the flu and diarrhea in daycare children, say…
Don’t make these dental mistakes
• Dental Health • May 18 10
The topic of dental health is not a popular one - many people give their teeth cursory attention and put off going to the…
Young Women Burned by Addictions to Tanning
• Cancer • • Gender: Female • • Skin Care • May 18 10
Amber Peterson, 31, used to visit tanning booths every other day for 10 years until she was diagnosed with the deadliest form of skin…
Study Examines Hearing Loss, Viagra Use
• Ear / Nose / Throat • May 18 10
Research by a University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) professor shows an association between hearing loss and the use of the erectile dysfunction drug…
Polio outbreak spreads in Tajikistan, WHO warns
• Infections • • Public Health • May 18 10
A polio outbreak in Tajikistan has spread, with 108 confirmed cases among children, and more expected, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on…