Tag: Diet

Last month an interagency task force convened at the White House to tackle the problem of childhood obesity, a project that First Lady Michelle Obama is making a priority during her husbands administration. The goal of the child Obesity Task Force was to prepare a report that will serve as a road map, with goals, benchmarks, and measurable outcomes.
After lengthy discussions, round tables, and reviewing the 2500+ suggestions from the public, the report was released yesterday with 70 recommendations to combat Americas weighty problem.

Eating too much fat in pregnancy may be an indulgence that has a less-than-beneficial effect on generations to come, say researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. Their unique study in rats shows that pregnant females that ate a high fat diet not only increased breast cancer risk in their female daughters but also in that daughter's offspring -- the "granddaughters."

ScienceDaily (Dec. 7, 2009) A scientist from the University of Salamanca and another from Yale University have shown that the presence of predators affects the behaviour of Acanthodactylus beershebensis, a lizard species from the Negev Desert in Israel. According to the study, these reptiles move less and catch less mobile and different prey if they are under pressure from predators.

Many theoretical models had predicted this result, but until now there had been very few experimental trials and none in the case of saurians (reptiles).
This experiment by Dror Hawlena, a researcher at Yale University in the United States, and Valentםn Pיrez-Mellado, a researcher at the University of Salamanca, has shown that certain animals, such as the insectivore lizard Acanthodactylus beershebensis, can change their behaviour and diet to avoid being eaten.

Increase your odds of staying well this winter with quercetin.


Sometimes a flu shot works, and sometimes it doesn't. To increase your odds of staying well this winter, eat more apples, blueberries, broccoli, spinach, lettuce, and onions. They all contain quercetin, a powerful antioxidant shown to reduce the risk of flu in mice.

Simple ways to beat the effects of holiday overeating.

Guilty of overeating during the holidays? Here are 20 simple ways to beat weight gain.

If you're like most Americans, you frequent one of the country's more than 72,000 fast-food restaurants at least once a week. After all, industry data show that fast-food accounts for 86 percent of meals taken home from restaurants.

Stick to double cheeseburgers, supersize your fries and sodas, and add a few high-fat breakfast items a couple times a month, and you could see your waistline and cholesterol levels grow like weeds in a summer garden.

Eating right may help protect your nerves from diabetic neuropathy.

If you have diabetes, you already know the drill. What you eat, when you eat, and how much you eat can send your blood sugar skyrocketing -- or make it plummet. For better or worse, "diet and diabetes" go together like salt and pepper.

Celebrities give mass appeal to all kinds of diets, workout plans and drastic methods to lose some extra pounds. However it seems that there are moments when the magic breaks and they seem to forget about their principles. Indeed extreme dieting can lead to severe damages in our organism. Let's see the celebrity yo-yo dieters whose example we should not follow.

Here's some good news: Healthy eating can have a dramatic impact on the symptoms and progression of type 2 diabetes and its frequent precursor, prediabetes. But the problem is that there's a lot of conflicting information out there. Just what does healthy eating with type 2 diabetes really mean? No sweets? Scheduled snacks? Low-fat, low-carb -- or neither? more...

No matter how earnestly you resolve not to overindulge this Thanksgiving, you will probably eat more than you should.

After all, a typical Thanksgiving meal can add up to 3,000 calories or more. And if you snack throughout the day or eat two big meals, you could easily double that for the day.