News tagged with fruits and vegetables
Diet key to blood pressure
Feb 06, 2009 |
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If you're like many Americans, your blood pressure has crept up as you've gotten older. But it doesn't have to. Our lifestyle has an impact on blood pressure; in fact, in parts of the world where people still live as their ...
Independent Grocery Stores Boost Urban Fruit, Veggie Consumption
Mar 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study from Detroit finds that the food environment of a neighborhood — the presence or absence of grocery stores, food markets and convenience stores and whether they sell fresh produce — influences ...
New evidence that people make aspirin's active principle -- salicylic acid
Jan 12, 2009 |
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Scientists in the United Kingdom are reporting new evidence that humans can make their own salicylic acid (SA) — the material formed when aspirin breaks down in the body. SA, which is responsible for aspirin's renowned effects ...
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Food, health get top billing at national chemistry meeting
Aug 19, 2008 |
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Well beyond the advice to drink enough water and not eat too much NaCl, the nation's chemists will get elemental with grapefruit, onions, peppers, tomatoes, carrots and watermelons this week at the American Chemical Society ...
Extension has tomato-handling tips for consumers
Jun 24, 2008 |
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The discovery of Salmonella in certain tomato varieties has caused a series of food-poisoning outbreaks throughout the United States and put the media and the public's eye on food safety. Renee Boyer, consumer ...
Fruit and vegetable intake in pregnant women reduces risk of upper respiratory tract infection
Jul 08, 2009 |
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Boston University School of Medicine researchers (BUSM) have observed in a study of pregnant women that consumption of at least seven servings per day of fruits and vegetables moderately reduced the risk of developing an ...
New factor in teen obesity: Parents
Feb 09, 2009 |
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There may be a reason teenagers eat more burgers and fries than fruits and vegetables: their parents.
9 in 10 high schoolers short on fruits, veggies
Sep 29, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Health officials say only 13 percent of U.S. high school students get at least three servings of vegetables a day and just 32 percent get two servings of fruit.
GSU professor develops new method to help keep fruit, vegetables and flowers fresh
Oct 20, 2009 |
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Did you know that millions of tons of fruits and vegetables in the United States end up in the trash can before being eaten, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture? A Georgia State University professor has developed ...
Parents shape whether their children learn to eat fruits and vegetables
Aug 11, 2008 |
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Providing fruits for snacks and serving vegetables at dinner can shape a preschooler's eating patterns for his or her lifetime.
New evidence that people make aspirin's active principle -- salicylic acid
Dec 22, 2008 |
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Scientists in the United Kingdom are reporting new evidence that humans can make their own salicylic acid (SA) — the material formed when aspirin breaks down in the body. SA, which is responsible for aspirin's renowned effects ...
Getting kids to eat vegetables
Jan 23, 2009 |
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Several years ago, I did a study in graduate school to determine why some children like vegetables and many do not. Two findings emerged from my "research" with 6 and 7 year olds: Children who had opportunity to help grow ...
In flurry of studies, researcher details role of apples in inhibiting breast cancer
Feb 17, 2009 |
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Six studies published in the past year by a Cornell researcher add to growing evidence that an apple a day -- as well as daily helpings of other fruits and vegetables -- can help keep the breast-cancer doctor away.
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