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Health And Nutrition Guide
Who Said Bananas Are Not Good For You?
After reading this, you'll never look at a banana in the same way again. Bananas: Containing three natural sugars - sucrose, fructose and glucose combined with fibre, a banana gives an instant, sustained and substantial boost of energy.
Food Labels: Fact or Fiction?
How often do you pick up items at the grocery and scan the labels? Do you understand them? Ever wonder if they are really accurate? Many consumers probably glance at them, but based on the current obesity rate today it seems as if people should pay more attention. Selling food is a big business.
Top Ten Ways to Avoid Holiday Weight Gain
Did you know the average American gains 5-7 pounds every year between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day? That equates to ingesting at least 17,500 more calories than you burn on a daily basis during that time period. At a minimum, that equals nearly 500 extra calories per day on average over that stretch of days.
Nutrition For Your Young Athlete
Nutrition is extremely important for any young person, especially an athletic one, and even more so during the developmental years of their life. Whether your child is involved in soccer or football, gymnastics or swimming or Little League, he or she needs a good nutritive balance in order to be successful in any endeavor.
7 Bad Eating Habits You Should Change Immediately
People are obsessed with dieting and weight loss! Don't believe me? Just tune-in to any source of advertising...
5 Ways to Get the Best Out of Radishes
They sit left behind on relish trays. They're often by-passed in grocery store refrigerator shelves.
5 Secrets of Reading Food Labels Revealed
Whether you're concerned about cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, or simply losing weight, you want to eat a healthy diet and focus on foods that are high in vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients, and balanced in fats, carbs, proteins. There is only one way to incorporate healthy foods into our diet and that is to make the decision to do it! Practical information about the nutrition and safety of the foods we consume is absolutely vital in making this decision.
The 9 Most Common Mistakes to Avoid When Reading a Food Label
Nutrients Fat, Sugar, Sodium and Carbohydrate The sections on a food label shows the name of a nutrient and the amount of that nutrient provided by one serving of food. You may need to know this information, especially if you have high blood pressure, diabetes or are eating a diet that restricts certain nutrients such as sodium or carbohydrates.
9 Tips to Stop Food Cravings and Help You With Your Diet
Most of us are 'regular' people. We don't eat the perfect diet all the time and have our struggles with food, same as everyone else.
3 Important Differences Between White Bread and Whole Wheat
For any kid who grew up eating doughy, thick Wonder Bread for lunch, the encouragement by dietitians and nutritionists to switch to whole wheat bread can be a tough transition. Bread, like any other part of our diet, is an acquired taste.
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Obesity creeps up in US: report
(AFP)
 AFP - Obesity continued to creep up in the United States last year and now affects more than one in four US adults, a US government report showed Friday.
Mississippi remains most obese state, CDC reports
(AP)
 AP - The South tips the scales again as the nation's fattest region, according to a new government survey.
U.S. Obesity Epidemic Continues to Grow
(HealthDay)
HealthDay - THURSDAY, July 17 (HealthDay News) -- Despite wide-ranging
efforts to encourage Americans to lose weight, the number of U.S. adults
who are obese increased almost 2 percent between 2005 and 2007, a new
report found.
More Americans obese, government finds
(Reuters)
Reuters - More than a quarter of all Americans
are now obese, the latest U.S. government figures show.
Study: Low-carb diet best for weight, cholesterol
(AP)
 AP - The Atkins diet may have proved itself after all: A low-carb diet and a Mediterranean-style regimen helped people lose more weight than a traditional low-fat diet in one of the longest and largest studies to compare the dueling weight-loss techniques.
Diet Plans Produce Similar Results
(HealthDay)
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, July 16 (HealthDay News) -- New research shows that
Mediterranean and low-carb diets are just as good and just as safe as the
low-fat diet often prescribed by doctors, a revelation that should give
people more choices in eating well.
Obesity ups a woman's pancreatic cancer risk: study
(Reuters)
Reuters - Obese women who carry most of their
extra weight around the stomach are 70 percent more likely to
develop pancreatic cancer, an international team of researchers
reported on Tuesday.
Laparoscopic gastric bypass provides better results
(Reuters)
Reuters - Performing gastric bypass
surgery to reduce the weight of morbidly obese patients using a
laparoscopic method, rather than the conventional more invasive
"open" abdominal method, reduces postoperative complications,
the need for a second operation, and shortens hospital stays,
new research shows. Nevertheless, laparoscopic gastric bypass
is more expensive.
Newest fertility treatment may be a diet
(Reuters)
 Reuters - The newest low-tech fertility
treatment may be a diet, researchers said on Wednesday after
learning that obese men have more abnormal sperm and make less
semen.
Obesity levels in China rising fast, study finds
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Obesity levels in China are rising
fast, with more than a quarter of the adult population
overweight or obese. As people add more meat and dairy products
to their diet, serious health problems can develop, a new study
says.
Kids' Obesity May Lead to Epidemic of Adult Diabetes
(HealthDay)
HealthDay - TUESDAY, July 8 (HealthDay News) -- The current childhood obesity
epidemic in the United States may lead to large numbers of young adults
developing type 2 diabetes in the future, along with serious
diabetes-related health complications, warns a University of Michigan
researcher.
Quarter of Chinese adults are overweight, obese: US study
(AFP)
 AFP - Declining physical activity and a shift towards a Western diet are driving up obesity rates in China, with more than 25 percent of adults now considered overweight or obese, a study warned Tuesday.
Metformin may help obese teen girls lose weight
(Reuters)
Reuters - The addition of the type 2
diabetes drug metformin to a lifestyle modification program may
help female adolescents lose weight loss if they also make
dietary changes, according to a new study.
ADHD Might Raise Kids' Obesity Risk
(HealthDay)
HealthDay - MONDAY, July 7 (HealthDay News) -- Children with attention-deficit
hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are at a 50 percent higher risk for being
overweight if they are not taking medication for the condition, a new
study finds.
Hardwired for fat: scientists identify obesity gene
(AFP)
 AFP - British and French scientists have identified several variants of a single gene that boost the risk of obesity, according to a study published Sunday in the British journal Nature.
Obesity may offer some protection after stenting
(Reuters)
Reuters - Paradoxically, obesity may
offer some protection against heart-related "events," like
heart attack, in people who have a stent placed to prop open a
clogged coronary artery, research shows.
Kidney stones a risk after stomach bypass surgery
(Reuters)
Reuters - Morbidly obese adults who
undergo a particular type of stomach bypass surgery called
Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) appear to be at increased risk
of developing kidney stones earlier than previously thought.
The increase in stone risk was evident just three months after
the surgery.
Population-Based Strategy Urged to Cut U.S. Obesity Rate
(HealthDay)
HealthDay - MONDAY, June 30 (HealthDay News) -- Reducing the high rate of
obesity in the United States requires a comprehensive, population-based
strategy, says a new American Heart Association (AHA) scientific
statement.
Fatty Liver Disease Ups Heart Risks for Obese Kids
(HealthDay)
HealthDay - MONDAY, June 30 (HealthDay News) -- More than 6 million children
in the United States have a condition called nonalcoholic fatty liver
disease (NAFLD), which can boost their odds for heart disease, researchers
report.
Obesity may interfere with prostate cancer screen
(Reuters)
 Reuters - The test commonly used to
screen men for prostate cancer may be more likely to miss
tumors in obese men, a new study suggests.
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