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- Birthweight and breastfeeding have implications for children's health decades later
- Appreciation for fat jokes, belief in obese stereotypes linked
- Breastfeeding: Do celebrity ambassadors help the ordinary woman?
- Numerical learning disability: Dyscalculia linked to difficulties in reading and spelling
- Soy may help women's hearts if they start early
- Acupuncture provides significant quality of life improvements among breast cancer patients taking drugs to prevent recurrence, study shows
- Why we should vaccinate boys against HPV as well as girls
- Five daily portions of fruit and vegetables may be enough to lower risk of early death
- Children whose parents spend more time cooking choose healthier foods later
- Striatal dopamine transporter binding correlates with body composition and visual attention bias for food cues in healthy young men
- Dieting young may lead to poor health outcomes later: Trends in dieting strategies in young adult women from 1982 to 2012
- Drinking sugar-sweetened beverages during adolescence impairs memory, animal study suggests
- Maternal obesity modulates offspring microflora composition and gastrointestinal functions, animal study shows
- Menu secrets that can make you slim by design
- Can summer camp be key to world peace?
- Top water saving tips for American households
- Favorite foods can cause serious choking accidents in kids
- Strategies identified to improve oral contraceptive success with obese women
| Birthweight and breastfeeding have implications for children's health decades later Posted: 30 Jul 2014 10:24 AM PDT Young adults who were breastfed for three months or more as babies have a significantly lower risk of chronic inflammation associated with cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, according to new research.  |
| Appreciation for fat jokes, belief in obese stereotypes linked Posted: 30 Jul 2014 10:24 AM PDT From movies to television, obesity is still considered "fair game" for jokes and ridicule. A new study took a closer look at weight-related humor to see if anti-fat attitudes played into a person's appreciation or distaste for fat humor in the media.  |
| Breastfeeding: Do celebrity ambassadors help the ordinary woman? Posted: 30 Jul 2014 07:40 AM PDT Breasts are the strongest symbol of female sexuality and are abundant in the media, on magazines, in adverts and in film. Celebrity breasts are depicted as objects of sexual desire and as a model for everyday women to aspire to. Broadcast images of breastfeeding however are scarce and elicit controversy and even revulsion.  |
| Numerical learning disability: Dyscalculia linked to difficulties in reading and spelling Posted: 30 Jul 2014 06:38 AM PDT Between three and six percent of schoolchildren suffer from an arithmetic-related learning disability. Researchers now show that these children are also more likely to exhibit deficits in reading and spelling than had been previously suspected.  |
| Soy may help women's hearts if they start early Posted: 30 Jul 2014 01:34 AM PDT A diet rich in soy may help feminine hearts, but timing matters, finds a new study. "This study underscores how important it is for women to get into the best cardiovascular shape they can before menopause. The healthy habits they start then will carry them through the years to come," says one expert.  |
| Posted: 30 Jul 2014 01:34 AM PDT Use of electroacupuncture (EA) – a form of acupuncture where a small electric current is passed between pairs of acupuncture needles – produces significant improvements in fatigue, anxiety and depression in as little as eight weeks for early stage breast cancer patients experiencing joint pain related to the use of aromatase inhibitors (AIs) to treat breast cancer. The study is the first demonstration of EA's efficacy for both joint pain relief, as well as these other common symptoms.  |
| Why we should vaccinate boys against HPV as well as girls Posted: 29 Jul 2014 07:49 PM PDT An expert in chronic illnesses says that boys should be vaccinated against the HPV virus, as well as girls, to cut incidence of genital warts and several cancers.  |
| Five daily portions of fruit and vegetables may be enough to lower risk of early death Posted: 29 Jul 2014 07:49 PM PDT Eating five daily portions of fruit and vegetables is associated with a lower risk of death from any cause, particularly from cardiovascular disease, but beyond five portions appears to have no further effect, finds a new study.  |
| Children whose parents spend more time cooking choose healthier foods later Posted: 29 Jul 2014 07:49 PM PDT New research suggests that the amount time parents spend on food preparation at home influences children's food intake decisions made in the laboratory without parental supervision.  |
| Posted: 29 Jul 2014 07:49 PM PDT Scientists have described a way that brain chemistry may make some people notice food more easily, which can tempt overeating even in people who are not overweight.  |
| Posted: 29 Jul 2014 07:49 PM PDT The younger a woman is when she goes on her first diet, the more likely she is to experience several negative health outcomes later in life.  |
| Drinking sugar-sweetened beverages during adolescence impairs memory, animal study suggests Posted: 29 Jul 2014 07:49 PM PDT Daily consumption of beverages sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup or sucrose can impair the ability to learn and remember information, particularly when consumption occurs during adolescence, a study done in rats suggests.  |
| Posted: 29 Jul 2014 07:48 PM PDT Maternal obesity leads to marked changes in the offspring's gastrointestinal microflora composition and gastrointestinal function. This study suggests there are non-genetic factors that could be passed from a mother to offspring to increase the susceptibility to obesity.  |
| Menu secrets that can make you slim by design Posted: 29 Jul 2014 09:38 AM PDT If you've ever ordered the wrong food at a restaurant, don't blame yourself; blame the menu. What you order may have less to do with what you want and more to do with a menu's layout and descriptions.  |
| Can summer camp be key to world peace? Posted: 29 Jul 2014 08:51 AM PDT A new longitudinal study shows that campers who formed a close relationship with at least one member from the "enemy" side at camp, and who maintained those relationships once the program was over, retained the strongest feelings of positivity toward the other side  |
| Top water saving tips for American households Posted: 29 Jul 2014 07:11 AM PDT Curbing water use in American households could be as easy as making simple changes to your daily routine and installing a few water-efficient appliances, a recent article suggests. Among these actions are reducing shower times and toilet flushes, doing only full loads of laundry, and installing WaterSense and ENERGY STAR labeled products, just to name a few.  |
| Favorite foods can cause serious choking accidents in kids Posted: 29 Jul 2014 06:26 AM PDT Food—not toys—is the most common culprit of choking accidents in kids under 5 years of age. An expert offers tips to prevent food choking accidents.  |
| Strategies identified to improve oral contraceptive success with obese women Posted: 28 Jul 2014 10:09 AM PDT Two ways to effectively address the problem that birth control pills may not work as well in obese women, compared to women of a normal body mass index, have been proposed by researchers: either a higher-dose pill or skipping the 'one week off' regimen might work. For obese women, simply shifting to an alternative form of birth control is an option, the researchers said. But they also pointed out that oral contraceptives are the most preferred form of birth control and that a woman's individual preference influences her adherence and continuation with any method.  |
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