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Study: Lose weight while listening to your MP3 player (w/ Podcast)

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created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- With obesity and weight-related illnesses on the rise, researchers continue to look for better ways to help people shed extra pounds and keep them off. A new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study ...


Consumers more likely to identify healthy food using traffic light nutrition labels

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created May 07, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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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How to predict post-operative enteral nutrition problems

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created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) has become one of the most useful and established enteral nutrition techniques. However, since PEG is based on a surgical technique and is mainly performed in elderly individuals ...


ADA publishes practice guidelines for nutrition care for patients with spinal cord injury

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created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The American Dietetic Association has published new evidence-based nutrition practice guidelines for registered dietitians on nutrition care for patients with spinal cord injury.


New affordable nutrition index is first measurement tool to evaluate affordable nutrition

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created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

A new food rating system that analyzes both nutrition and cost value of food may now make it easier for people to find budget-friendly, nutritious foods in today’s tough economy. The Affordable Nutrition Index (ANI), unveiled ...


Personalized nutritional information sent through mail helps improve diets

Personalized nutritional information sent through mail helps improve diets

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created May 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Brown University researchers have shown that there is an inexpensive way to help low-income, ethnically diverse people eat better: Send personalized nutrition education materials through the mail.


Study demonstrates link between appetite and elderly mortality

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created May 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new study by a Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researcher reveals a linkage between elderly people's appetite and mortality rates, with those who report impaired appetite more likely to die sooner.


Study: Smoking may worsen malnutrition in developing nations

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created Aug 24, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new study finds that smokers in rural Indonesia finance their habit by dipping into the family food budget—which ultimately results in poorer nutrition for their children. The findings suggest that the costs of smoking ...


Industry backs off food labels after FDA criticism (AP)

Industry backs off food labels after FDA criticism

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created Oct 24, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- A food industry group is voluntarily halting promotion of its nutrition labeling program after federal regulators said such systems may be misleading consumers, officials with the group said Friday.


Food security: It starts with seed

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 04, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

With each passing year, the human population of our planet continues to expand. This growth has created a wide ranging strain on our water and soil resources, as well as our environment, creating an unprecedented urgency ...


Cereal and milk is the new sports supplement

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created May 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Exercise physiologist Lynne Kammer, from The University of Texas at Austin, led a group of researchers who investigated the post-exercise physiological effects of the foods. Kammer and her team studied 12 trained cyclists, ...


Multivitamins are no magic bullet panacea

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created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

We've been told for years that popping a multivitamin will make us healthier and prolong our lives, but a major study recently found that daily multivitamins don't make a difference in the rate of breast or colon cancer, ...



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