Posted in Nutrition on Aug 13, 2011
Dagmar von Cramm, an author and dietician from Freiburg, Germany say that it is the parents’ responsibility to make certain that their children are consuming a reasonable level of sugar foods. A child’s menu would be very sugary in breakfast with chocolate cereals, lunch with pancakes and prosperity of lemonade if they would be the ones to decide on their …
Posted in Nutrition on Aug 13, 2011
A very effective study that may help people manage their weight has been found out. It is through chewing their food more take in calories less.
Results printed in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition showed that when you chew your food 25 times more than 15 usual times, correspondents resulted to eat twelve percent less calories.
A research was …
Posted in Nutrition on Aug 11, 2011
According to the Washington Post, the food chain McDonald’s has declared that there will be some changes to their happy meals, including an obligatory smaller orders of fries and apple slices. This is after a lot of parents and grandparents thought of the rising childhood obesity epidemic.
The fast food giant is widely recognized in showing their apple slices as …
Posted in Nutrition on Aug 10, 2011
According to the researchers’ new study at the University of Texas, Austin, the lunch meals sent to children at school may cause them sickness.
The researchers have computed the temperatures of food within lunch bags ninety minutes earlier than the children at an air-conditioned school were programmed to eat those.
The lunches that were in protected bags consisted ninety percent, …
Posted in Nutrition on Aug 05, 2011
A report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated that hospitals are not making enough effort in encouraging new mothers to use exercise breastfeeding.
The agency’s Vital Signs’ August issue reported that all over the country, the majority of new mothers are giving their babies drink or food excluding breast milk when it’s not necessary in terms …
Posted in Nutrition on Aug 01, 2011
Researchers from the University of North Carolina presented that an increasing trend with kids in bringing takeout food home and eating out still are the roots of the obesity epidemic.
According to experts, a lot of the food taken in by kids outside the house is from ready-to-eat meals bought in fast food restaurants, convenience stores, and supermarkets.
The researchers …
Posted in Nutrition on Jul 18, 2011
A new report has been published by the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee in Nutrition that says there are more and more number of teenagers who drink sports drink at schools and places where young adults hangout. The increase marks at 5 percent between years 2004 and 2007.
Experts say this is not a good thing since it involves an …
Posted in Nutrition on Jul 12, 2011
A new study suggests that individuals who consume a low-fat diet have a lower risk of developing diabetes.
Researchers from the University of Alabama in Birmingham conducted the study and analyzed data from 69 healthy, non-diabetic, overweight adults, who were at risk for the disease. These individuals were assigned on a diet that has modest reductions in fat or in …
Posted in Nutrition on Jun 20, 2011
The Dutch researchers reported that Vitamin D supplements for pregnant women may actually help in preventing a respiratory disease called RSV, which can further lead to pneumonia and other potentially life-threatening illnesses especially to newborns.
According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, RSV or Respiratory Syncytial Virus is considered as the most common cause of pneumonia and …
Posted in Nutrition on Jun 19, 2011
A recent research has known that the increased risk of children being obese or overweight is not associated with stores and fast food establishments situated next to their schools.
According to David E. Harris, the lead researcher from Portland’s University of Southern Maine, student obesity, most prevalent in kids, are not caused by stores near school grounds advertising and selling …
