News tagged with healthier choice

Making healthy choices easy for shoppers

FoodSwitch, an Australian-first iPhone app, has been launched recently to help shoppers make healthier food choices in the supermarket and reduce high levels of fat, salt and sugar from their diets.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists pinpoint the brain circuitry linked to making healthy or unhealthy choices

(Medical Xpress) -- What drives addicts to repeatedly choose drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, overeating, gambling or kleptomania, despite the risks involved?

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 30, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (10) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Diet soda doesn't make you fat -- it's the extra food

You are making a healthier choice when opting for a diet soda instead of a calorie-laden drink, but beware that you don’t sabotage your good behavior by indulging in extra-calorie foods, said an obesity specialist at ...

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created Jul 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Small steps can improve your health and wealth

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as a team can achieve more than an individual, so can resolutions to improve your health and to improve your finances reinforce each other, say Montana State University Extension specialists.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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After-school program can reduce alcohol use among middle school students, study finds

A voluntary substance prevention program held after school and presented by trained facilitators can help reduce alcohol use among young adolescents, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

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created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Family focus may help obese kids to succeed in treatment

Parents should be involved in treatment programs for their obese children, according to a new scientific statement published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.

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created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Trying to eat healthy? Read those nutrition labels carefully

People who made New Year’s resolutions to eat healthier or lose weight might also want to brush up on their math skills.

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created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Foreigners in India for 'mommy makeover' surgery

When a group of women from Uganda embarked on a trip of a lifetime to India, little did many of their friends and families at home know that a secret surgical "mommy makeover" was on their itinerary.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 15, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A muffin makeover: Dispelling the low-fat-is-healthy myth

Dozens of studies, many from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers, have shown that low-fat diets are no better for health than moderate- or high-fat diets—and for many people, may be worse.

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created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (8) | comments 5

Can a tax on soft drinks help reduce obesity?

(Medical Xpress) -- Can obesity be taxed away? Several UConn professors think that taxing fattening foods can help – but not in the way many people would expect. Instead of trying to make unhealthy foods prohibitively ...

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created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Updated American Cancer Society nutrition guidelines stress need for supportive environment

Updated guidelines on nutrition and physical activity for cancer prevention from the American Cancer Society stress the importance of creating social and physical environments that support healthy behaviors. The report includes ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

Skip the gym? You'll pay

If, in New Years past, a steadfast resolution to get your butt to the gym has resulted in your butt remaining steadfastly planted on your couch, it may be time to introduce your butt to hyperbolic discounting.

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created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Two cities, one vast gap in child obesity

Doris Chang limits her three sons' intake of sweets and doesn't feed them any processed or frozen food. At their Manhattan Beach, Calif., home, she monitors the boys' time in front of the television and keeps them busy with ...

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created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study looks at fast-food restaurant response to first limits on free toys with kids' meals

(Medical Xpress) -- Some of the first fast-food restaurants in the nation prohibited from giving free toys with children’s meals that don’t meet nutritional standards reacted by curbing the marketing ...

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created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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