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Student-designed device provides new way to track calorie burning

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Counting calories that burn through activity is a constant quandary. One can only run on a treadmill so long, watching intently as the pedometer reads out the number of calories melted during a session of exercise. Not to ...





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Owners should count calories for obese pets, consider several factors for good health

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

You might watch your daily calorie intake or glance over nutritional information on food packages, but do you do the same for your pet?


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Popcorn at the movies still an unhealthy treat

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- A study carried out in 1994 by advocacy group CSPI (Center for Science in the Public Interest) found that popcorn being sold by cinema chains in the US was high in saturated fat and calories, ...


Food habits of the poor unchanged by NY calories law: study

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 6

A New York City law requiring restaurant chains to display calorie counts has not changed eating habits among poorer people, a study released Tuesday said.


Impact of Menu-Labeling: Study Shows People Eat Less When They Know More

Impact of Menu-Labeling: Study Shows People Eat Less When They Know More

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The restaurant industry has lobbied hard against mandatory menu labeling in restaurants, highlighting the importance of a new study from Yale University measuring the impact of such regulations. ...


Artificial sweeteners linked to weight gain

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 11, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (25) | comments 0

Want to lose weight? It might help to pour that diet soda down the drain. Researchers have laboratory evidence that the widespread use of no-calorie sweeteners may actually make it harder for people to control their intake ...


New gadgets demystify metabolism; Find out how many calories your body burns

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 2

And when she doesn't gain a pound -- ever -- there's only one thing to blame: her metabolism.


Drinking milk in the morning may help stave off lunchtime hunger

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Now there's a new reason for the weight-conscious to drink fat free milk at breakfast time, suggests a new study published in the July issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Researchers in Australia found that d ...


Expel chocolate milk from school lunches: activist

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Chocolate milk is "soda in drag" and should be booted out of US school cafeterias, a former celebrity chef turned school lunch lady has said.


Europe to stop counting swine flu cases

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The number of confirmed swine flu cases in Europe stands at over 46,000 and the European Union will no longer publish weekly figures on the numbers infected, a health chief said Tuesday.


Investigators identify successful weight control strategies for adolescents

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Adolescent obesity is a major public health problem that impacts one out of every three children, resulting in 4-5 million overweight youth in the United States. In a study published in the December 2009 issue of the Journal of ...



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