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'Comfort food' a stress killer: Australian study
Nov 24, 2009 |
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A high-fat, high-sugar diet could have the same effect on brain chemistry as mood-altering drugs, giving scientific support to the craving for "comfort food", Australian researchers said Tuesday.
A surprising new strategy helps reduce unhealthy behaviors
Aug 22, 2008 |
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Public health campaigns intended to reduce unhealthy behaviors like binge drinking and eating junk food often focus on the risks of those behaviors. But a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research suggests a relatively simple ...
Eating junk while pregnant can harm your baby
Jul 01, 2008 |
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We all know that smoking and drinking when pregnant can harm the baby, but new research published in The Journal of Physiology suggests that poor diet may also cause long-lasting, irreversible damage in offspring from heart ...
What three-year-olds eat affects their school performance many years later
Aug 12, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- School dinners have come under the spotlight recently, but new research suggests that diet in the pre-school years is even more important.
NASA: Floating 'junk' no threat to space station
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- NASA says a piece of old space junk that it's been tracking for a few days is no threat to the International Space Station.
Cut energy use by eating better, study says
Aug 12, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- How much energy we use to produce food could be cut in half if Americans ate less and ate local foods, wolfed down less meat, dairy and junk food, and used more traditional farming methods, says a new Cornell ...
Tougher rules sought on junk food ads
Sep 05, 2006 |
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Experts attending the International Conference on Obesity in Sydney are calling for tougher rules to prevent promotion of junk food to children.
Junk DNA may prove invaluable in quest for gene therapies
Sep 21, 2009 |
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Scientists have identified how a protein enables sections of so-called junk DNA to be cut and pasted within genetic code - a finding which could speed development of gene therapies.
Eating junk food whilst pregnant and breastfeeding may lead to obese offspring
Aug 15, 2007 |
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Mothers who eat junk food during pregnancy and breastfeeding may be putting their children at risk of overeating and developing obesity, according to a study funded by the Wellcome Trust and carried out at the Royal Veterinary ...
Saved by junk DNA
May 28, 2009 |
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VIB researchers linked to K.U.Leuven and Harvard University show that stretches of DNA previously believed to be useless 'junk' DNA play a vital role in the evolution of our genome. They found that unstable pieces of junk ...
Study shows parents back junk-food ban in schools
Sep 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The issues surrounding children being overweight or obese plague society. In fact, the prevalence of these rates has tripled in the past three decades. But the University of Alberta's Paul ...
Coral's addiction to 'junk food'
Mar 24, 2008 |
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Over two hundred million humans depend for their subsistence on the fact that coral has an addiction to ‘junk food’ - and orders its partners, the symbiotic algae, to make it. This curious arrangement is one of Nature’s most ...
Local food environments can lead to obesity
Jun 18, 2009 |
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Living in an area with more fast food outlets and convenience stores than supermarkets and grocers has been associated with obesity in a Canadian study. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Public Health have s ...
Why eating less can help the environment
Jul 23, 2008 |
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An estimated 19 percent of total energy used in the USA is taken up in the production and supply of food. Currently, this mostly comes from non-renewable energy sources which are in short supply. It is therefore of paramount ...
Spacewalk performed despite approaching space junk
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Two astronauts stepped out on a spacewalk to install a new tank of space station coolant Thursday as a large piece of orbiting junk headed their way.
