How to get kids to use salad bars at school
From the BYU press release: Thanks to a national initiative, salad bars are showing up in public schools across the country. Now a Brigham Young University researcher is trying to nail down how to get…
Early supplementation may help offset early-life stress on the adult brain
From the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology media release: Early-life stress has been shown to impair learning and memory in later life, but new research, published online in The FASEB Journal, suggests that…
Discrimination Based on Weight Doubles Health Risks
From the University of Rhode Island media release: We all know that carrying extra pounds can be bad for your health. Now a URI professor has found that how society treats overweight people makes matters worse.…
Stress and obesity biologically linked
From the Hebrew University of Jerusalem media release: Metabolic and anxiety-related disorders both pose a significant healthcare burden, and are in the spotlight of contemporary research and therapeutic efforts. Although intuitively we assume that these…
Link between food advertising, child food consumption
From the University of Liverpool media release: New research by University of Liverpool health expert Dr Emma Boyland has confirmed that unhealthy food advertising does increase food intake in children. Researchers, led by Dr Boyland from…
Study examines link between stress, brain and body weight
From the UC Davis press release via HealthCanal: It’s not just our imagination: We really do eat differently when we’re stressed. Nutritionists at UC Davis and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Western Human Nutrition Research…
Study examines how to encourage children to eat more vegetables
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Every parent has a different strategy for trying to get his or her kid to eat more vegetables, from growing vegetables together as a family to banning…
Study examines how the brain senses presence of too much salt in food
From the Johns Hopkins Medicine press release via ScienceDaily: As anyone who’s ever mixed up the sugar and salt while baking knows, too much of a good thing can be inedible. What hasn’t been clear,…
Study suggests high-fat diet in adolescence may impair memory, learning
From the Endocrine Society press release via EurekAlert!: A high-fat diet in adolescence appears to have long-lasting effects on learning and memory during adulthood, a new study in mice finds. The results were presented Saturday…
Study suggests eating behaviors of preschoolers may be related to future risk of heart disease
From the Canadian Medical Association Journal press release via EurekAlert!: Eating behaviours of preschoolers may be associated with risk of cardiovascular disease in later life, suggests a study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).…