Sugary drinks tied to obesity among preschoolers
• Children's Health • • Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • • Obesity • Aug 05 13
Five-year-olds who drink sugar-sweetened sodas, sports drinks or juices every day are more likely to be obese than those who have sugar-sweetened beverages less…
Can GMOs Be Good for You? 7 Surprising Truths About the Frankenfoods We Feed Our Kids
• Food & Nutrition • • Nutrition and Food Safety • Aug 04 13
Unless you live in Europe, or you have a 100% organic diet, or you grow everything yourself, there’s a good chance that your family…
Easy Ways to Improve Your Eating Habits
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Aug 04 13
With the rise of eating-related issues like type 2 diabetes, obesity, and heart disease, the need to improve the overall health of our country…
Eating out may hurt work performance, study shows
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Aug 03 13
Eating lunch outside the office will relax you - but it may also hinder your job performance, according to new research.
Scientists at Humboldt…
When it comes to health, wine wins over beer
• Food & Nutrition • • Heart • Aug 03 13
The battle being fought in laboratories and tasting rooms around the world is between beer drinkers and wine drinkers.
Each side claims that their…
Acetaminophen indicted in Fatal Skin Reactions by FDA
• Drug Abuse • • Skin Care • Aug 03 13
Paracetamol or Acetaminophen as it is known is the drug of choice for fever and pain. It is consumed in tons and is available…
Grape consumption associated with healthier eating patterns in US children and adults
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Aug 03 13
In a new observational study published in the Journal of Food Science, researchers looked at the association of grape consumption, in the non-alcoholic…
Mount Sinai researchers develop first successful laboratory model for studying hepatitis C
• Infections • Aug 03 13
By differentiating monkey stem cells into liver cells and inducing successful infection, researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have shown…
Pollutants from incense smoke cause human lung-cell inflammation
• Respiratory Problems • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Aug 02 13
Burning incense, a popular cultural practice in Arabian Gulf countries and elsewhere, generates indoor air pollutants that may cause inflammation in human lung cells,…
Take your child’s word for it on asthma, study finds
• Children's Health • • Asthma • Aug 02 13
Children’s perceptions of living with asthma may differ significantly from their caregivers’ perceptions, which means both should be interviewed when they visit the doctor’s…
New IOM report lays out plan to determine effectiveness of obesity prevention efforts
• Obesity • • Public Health • Aug 02 13
The United States lags behind other international plans to evaluate obesity prevention efforts, and the country needs to know whether these efforts are having…