http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. It doesn't seem like a fair fight. In one corner loomed the Thanksgiving table, groaning with poultry, pie and mashed potatoes. http://www.physorg.com/news178554433.html Medicine & Health Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:27:40 EST news178554433 Childhood obesity in the United States is reaching epidemic proportions. With more than one fourth of advertising on daytime and prime time television devoted to foods and beverages and continuing questions about the role television plays in obesity, a study in the November/December issue of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior examines how food advertising aimed at children might be a large contributor to the problem. http://www.physorg.com/news176579689.html Medicine & Health Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:10:03 EST news176579689 (PhysOrg.com) -- More than 16 percent of children and adolescents in the United States are overweight-a doubling of the estimated incidence of overweight among children and a tripling of the rate among adolescents in the past two decades. But scientists funded by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and based at the ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center (CNRC) at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) in Houston, Texas, are fighting back. http://www.physorg.com/news176044383.html Medicine & Health Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:40:07 EST news176044383 Restrictions on fast-food chain restaurants in South Los Angeles are not addressing the main differences between neighborhood food environments and are unlikely to improve the diet of residents or reduce obesity, according to a new RAND Corporation study. http://www.physorg.com/news174024706.html Medicine & Health Tue, 06 Oct 2009 05:15:12 EST news174024706 Living without a car in close proximity to fast food restaurants is associated with excess body mass index and weight gain, according to a University of Pittsburgh study available online and published in the September issue of the Journal of Urban Health. Indeed, adults in areas with high fast food concentration who didn't have a car were as much as 12 pounds heavier than those who lived in neighborhoods that lacked such restaurants. http://www.physorg.com/news171030380.html Medicine & Health Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:27:01 EST news171030380 Is McDonald's an authentic brand? What about Marlboro? According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, consumers are able to find authenticity in unlikely places. http://www.physorg.com/news170351100.html Other Sciences Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:00:01 EST news170351100 McDonald's seems recession-proof, its profitability apparently untouched by the newest economic crisis to hit America. Though the average family may not be able to eat out in style, they can afford a Dollar Menu double cheeseburger - or four. http://www.physorg.com/news166792525.html Other Sciences Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:16:35 EST news166792525 A new study by Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) researchers contradicts the conventional wisdom that living near a fast food outlet increases weight in children and that living near supermarkets, which sell fresh fruit and vegetables as well as so called junk food, lowers weight. http://www.physorg.com/news164378216.html Other Sciences Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:10:02 EST news164378216 Fast food and soft drinks may be making children fatter but they also make them happy. Programs aimed at tackling childhood obesity, by reducing children's consumption of unhealthy food and drink, are likely to be more effective if they also actively seek to keep children happy in other ways, according to Professor Hung-Hao Chang from National Taiwan University and Professor Rodolfo Nayga from the University of Arkansas in the US. Their findings are published in Springer's Journal of Happiness Studies. http://www.physorg.com/news158927962.html Medicine & Health Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:39:42 EST news158927962 The risk of stroke increases with the number of fast-food restaurants in a neighborhood, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2009. http://www.physorg.com/news154283301.html Medicine & Health Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:28:41 EST news154283301 There may be a reason teenagers eat more burgers and fries than fruits and vegetables: their parents. http://www.physorg.com/news153406509.html Medicine & Health Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:56:11 EST news153406509 With all the finger-pointing at fast food as a factor in America's obesity epidemic, you'd think people would be fatter where the supply of restaurants is greater--that is, neighborhoods teeming with burger joints, chicken shacks and so on. http://www.physorg.com/news152808563.html Medicine & Health Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:49:55 EST news152808563 High-school kids who watch too much TV are likely to have bad eating habits five years in the future. Research published in BioMed Central's open access International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity followed almost 2000 high- and middle-school children and found that TV viewing times predict a poor diet in the future. http://www.physorg.com/news152525679.html Medicine & Health Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:15:25 EST news152525679 Many studies have shown that breastfeeding appears to reduce the chance of children developing asthma. But a newly published study led by a University of Alberta professor has found that eating fast food more than once or twice a week negated the beneficial effects that breastfeeding has in protecting children from the respiratory disease. http://www.physorg.com/news152263591.html Medicine & Health Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:26:51 EST news152263591 A new study in the Review of Agricultural Economics compares fast food and table service meals at restaurants. Results show that both are larger and have more calories than meals prepared at home, with the typical fast food meal being smaller and having fewer calories than the average meal from a table service restaurant. http://www.physorg.com/news148734436.html Medicine & Health Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:07:16 EST news148734436 A ban on fast food advertisements in the United States could reduce the number of overweight children by as much as 18 percent, according to a new study being published this month in the Journal of Law and Economics. The study also reports that eliminating the tax deductibility associated with television advertising would result in a reduction of childhood obesity, though in smaller numbers. http://www.physorg.com/news146315666.html Medicine & Health Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:14:26 EST news146315666