News tagged with eating broccoli

US replaces food pyramid with 'healthy plate'

The US government on Thursday ditched its two-decade old "pyramid" model for healthy eating and introduced a new plate symbol half-filled with fruits and vegetables to urge better eating habits.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 02, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 6

Serve veggies first, and kids will eat them

Health officials and parents everywhere continue to puzzle over how to get kids to eat their fruits and vegetables. But I discovered the answer a few weeks ago.

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created Jul 06, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0




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Lie diet-tector: how scientists can reveal the truth about what you eat

(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers have shown that they can determine which foods and in what amounts people have eaten over the last few days by analysing their urine.

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created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An apple a day isn't enough

Adults from 30 to 60 years old, especially those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, aren't consuming the daily recommended levels of fruits and vegetables. Quebecers, however, eat more of nature's produce than their fellow ...

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created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Colorful plates boost a picky eater's appetite

Parents of picky eaters can encourage their children to eat more nutritionally diverse diets by introducing more color to their meals, according to a new Cornell University study. The study finds that colorful food fare is ...

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created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Bitter sensitive children eat more vegetables with help of dip

There's an existential crisis that often happens at dinner tables across the country: why won't kids eat their vegetables? Research has found that one reason could be a sensitivity to bitterness, fairly common among children ...

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created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Risk of disease partially set in womb, scientists say

Pregnant women sacrifice many of life's simple pleasures - caffeine, sushi, a glass of wine - in the hope that their baby will be born healthy. But according to a provocative new field of research, what happens during pregnancy ...

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created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

UK scientists grow super broccoli

Popeye might want to consider switching to broccoli. British scientists recently unveiled a new breed of the vegetable that experts say packs a big nutritional punch.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Extra vitamin E linked to prostate cancer, but diet still merits study

(Medical Xpress) -- Taking vitamin E supplements appear to increase a man’s risk of prostate cancer, according to a study that appears in the Oct. 12 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

No cupcakes here! Gold-medal school fights obesity

(AP) -- Five-year-olds dance hip-hop to the alphabet. Third-graders learn math by twisting into geometric shapes, fifth-graders by calculating calories. And everyone goes to the gym - every day.

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created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Eating green veggies improves immune defenses

Researchers reporting online in the journal Cell on October 13th have found another good reason to eat your green vegetables, although it may or may not win any arguments with kids at the dinner table.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Health benefits of broccoli require the whole food, not supplements

New research has found that if you want some of the many health benefits associated with eating broccoli or other cruciferous vegetables, you need to eat the real thing – a key phytochemical in these ...

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created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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