News tagged with portion size
Phytochemicals in plant-based foods could help battle obesity, disease
Oct 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The cheeseburger and French fries might look tempting, but eating a serving of broccoli or leafy greens first could help people battle metabolic processes that lead to obesity and heart disease, a new University ...
Company You Keep Influences How Much You Eat
Aug 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Thin friends who eat a lot could put your waistline in danger. That’s the warning from researchers studying how other people’s weight and food choices influence how much we eat.
People of higher socioeconomic status choose better diets -- but pay more per calorie
May 01, 2009 |
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As people become more educated, studies have demonstrated that they tend to choose foods that are lower in calories but higher in nutrients. They also pay more. In a study published in the May 2009 issue of the Journal of ...
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Low Literacy Can Lead to Food 'Portion Distortion'
Feb 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- How big is a serving of spaghetti or a cup of cranberry juice? Correctly estimating the size of a food serving is important for maintaining a healthy weight, but a new study suggests people with lower literacy ...
Portion control key to keeping holiday weight gain at bay
Jul 15, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Interested in keeping the pounds off this holiday season? A nutrition expert at Washington University in St. Louis has some very simple tips for remembering accurate portion sizes, which may be even more ...
Watching your weight? Beware of skinny friends with big appetites
Sep 21, 2009 |
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Thin friends who eat a lot could put your waistline at risk, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, which examines how other peoples' weight and food choices influence how much we eat.
Study reveals food choices influenced by body types of dining partners
Oct 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether your companions are overweight or skinny and how much they put on their plates can greatly influence how much you eat. New research shows if we eat with skinny people, we tend to mimic their food ...
How are children choosing their food portions?
Oct 07, 2008 |
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At dinner time, parents will often tell their child to clean their plate. However, that old maxim might lead kids to eat more than they need, especially when portions are adult-sized or supersized.
Super-sizing great for your wallet but not your waist
May 06, 2008 |
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From mega mugs of soda that don't even fit into the average car cup holder to jumbo orders of fries that could feed an elephant, many fast-food restaurants are offering super-sized portions that appear to be easy on the pocketbook.
Physical fitness improves spatial memory, increases size of brain structure
Feb 24, 2009 |
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When it comes to the hippocampus, a brain structure vital to certain types of memory, size matters. Numerous studies have shown that bigger is usually better. Now researchers have found that elderly adults who are more physically ...
Portion-control dishes may help obese diabetics lose weight
Jun 25, 2007 |
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A plate and cereal bowl with markers for proper portion sizes appear to help obese patients with diabetes lose weight and decrease their use of glucose-controlling medications, according to a report in the June 25 issue of ...
Lava flows in Daedalia Planum
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Mars Express imaged Daedalia Planum, a sparsely cratered, untextured plain on the Red Planet featuring solidified lava flows of varying ages.
Multi-laboratory study sizes up nanoparticle sizing
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 11, 2009 |
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As a result of a major inter-laboratory study, the standards body ASTM International has been able to update its guidelines for a commonly used technique for measuring the size of nanoparticles in solutions. The study, which ...
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