News tagged with poor nutrition
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.
Jan 19, 2012 |
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How poor maternal diet can increase risk of diabetes -- new mechanism discovered
Researchers have shown one way in which poor nutrition in the womb can put a person at greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes and other age-related diseases in later life. This finding could lead to new ways of identifying ...
Jan 06, 2012 |
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Couch potato or elite athlete? A happy medium keeps colds at bay
Battling colds and doing (or pledging to do) more exercise are familiar activities for most of us in January. But different levels of exercise can actually significantly increase or decrease your chances of catching a respiratory ...
Jan 05, 2012 |
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Researcher finds elderly lose ability to distinguish between odors
Scientists studying how the sense of smell changes as people age, found that olfactory sensory neurons in those 60 and over showed an unexpected response to odor that made it more difficult to distinguish specific smells, ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 10, 2011 |
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Undernourishment in pregnant, lactating females found key to next generation's disease
A new study published by the American Physiological Society offers the strongest evidence yet that vulnerability to type 2 diabetes can begin in the womb, giving new insight into the mechanisms that underlie a potentially ...
Jun 13, 2011 |
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Availability of local food key to improving food security
Most strategies to assist the hungry, including food banks and providing food stamps through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, are short-term, emergency solutions. Those who rely on these programs ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 09, 2011 |
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Researchers unlock the potential for exploring kidney regeneration
It is estimated that up to 10 percent of the U.S. population may have some form of renal disease, with 450,000 patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD) requiring hemodialysis. Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital, ...
Feb 01, 2011 |
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Eat a carrot, hurt the economy? Sometimes
Eating a healthy diet may be good for you, but it may be unintentionally slimming for the economies of some developing countries, a new study says. British researchers modeled what could happen if people in Britain and Brazil ...
Nov 11, 2010 |
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Study finds low birth weight may cause lifelong problems processing medications
New research has found that a mother's poor nutrition during pregnancy and nursing can cause problems for her offspring's ability to process medications, even well into adulthood.
Nov 10, 2010 |
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Patients with gum disease benefit from osteoporosis drug
A drug marketed to grow bone in osteoporosis patients also works to heal bone wounds in gum disease patients, a University of Michigan study suggests.
Oct 18, 2010 |
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Short people more prone to heart disease: study
Short people are at greater risk of developing heart disease than tall people, according to the first systematic review and meta-analysis of all the available evidence, which is published online today in the European Heart Jo ...
Jun 08, 2010 |
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No single cause for mass die off of honey bees: OIE
The huge die off of bees worldwide, a major threat to crops depending on the honey-making insects for pollination, is not due to any one single factor, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said Wednesday.
Apr 28, 2010 |
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Long neglected nutritional training for doctors at all levels needed now
The profession must take advantage of changes in medical education to ensure that all health professionals, but especially gut specialists, are given adequate training in nutrition, urge Dr Penny Nield and colleagues, in ...
Mar 18, 2010 |
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One more reason to promote the family dinner
(PhysOrg.com) -- Health experts have long held that children shouldn't watch more than one to two hours a day of television. Too much screen time encourages sedentary behaviour and contributes to rising levels of obesity. ...
Jan 28, 2010 |
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Scientists follow live infection by food-poisoning bacteria Listeria
Scientists in Portugal and France managed to follow the patterns of gene expression in food-poisoning bacteria Listeria monocytogenes (L. monocytogenes) live during infection for the first time. The work ab ...
May 28, 2009 |
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