News tagged with healthiness
Consumers more likely to identify healthy food using traffic light nutrition labels
May 07, 2009 |
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Consumers are five times more likely to identify healthy food when they see colour-coded traffic light nutrition labels than when labels present the information numerically by showing what percentage of the recommended daily ...
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Alcohol helps lower heart disease risk for men: study
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Men who drink alcohol every day see a nearly one-third average reduction in the risk of coronary heart disease, according to a long-term study among Spanish men published on Thursday.
'Fat' tax on food could prevent 3,000 heart attack and stroke deaths every year
Jul 12, 2007 |
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Taxing certain foodstuffs in the UK could prevent up to 3200 deaths from heart attacks and stroke every year, suggests a study in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
Red in the Face: People use your skin colour to judge how healthy you are
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- People use the colour of your skin to judge how healthy you are, according to researchers at the University of St Andrews.
Skin color gives clues to health
Nov 16, 2009 |
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Researchers from the universities of Bristol and St. Andrews in the UK have found that the color of a person's skin affects how healthy and therefore attractive they appear, and have found that diet may be crucial to achieving ...
Lowering sodium consumption could save US $18 billion annually in health costs
Sep 11, 2009 |
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Reducing Americans' average intake of sodium to the amount recommended by health officials could save the nation as much as $18 billion annually in avoided health care costs and improve the quality of life for millions of ...
Fatty fish protects against prostate cancer
Oct 31, 2006 |
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Men who eat a lot of fatty fish run a lower risk of prostate cancer, concludes a new research paper from Karolinska Institutet (Sweden). The effect is likely to be attributable to the abundance of omega-3 fatty acids, although ...
Acupuncture Reduces Pain, Need for Opioids after Surgery
Oct 17, 2007 |
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Using acupuncture before and during surgery significantly reduces the level of pain and the amount of potent painkillers needed by patients after the surgery is over, according to Duke University Medical Center anesthesiologists ...
Researchers pinpoint the mechanisms of self-control in the brain
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 30, 2009 |
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When you're on a diet, deciding to skip your favorite calorie-laden foods and eat something healthier takes a whole lot of self-control--an ability that seems to come easier to some of us than others. Now, ...
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