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Restaurant Meals Are Still Very High In Calories
If you are a person who regularly eats out then this news item should come as no surprise at all. With portion sizes constantly on the increase and restaurants forever trying to figure out how to increase the taste in their dishes, is it any wonder that the first casualty in this war on portion-sense [...]
New Guidelines For Weight-Gain During Pregnancy
For the first time since 1990, an Institute of Medicine (IOM)’s group of doctors and other nutrition experts have released guidelines for how much weight a woman should gain during pregnancy. The WebMD article “Pregnancy Weight Gain: New Guidelines” describes the various metrics released by the IOM regarding the right range of values for weight [...]
Being Strict With Childrens’ Diet Will Not Make Them Fat
That’s right. It was actually believed that if parents are over-strict with the eating habits of their kids then those same kids would rebel, overeat and become big fat adults. Uh…. not true! Science Daily reports that a recent study in the journal Obesity shows that such maternal control of a child’s eating habits might [...]
The Fittest Cities In The United States
The latest list of America’s fittest cities has been released by the American College of Sports Medicine and although it’s not the most obvious city I would have guessed to take the top honor, our nation’s capital, Washington D.C., is listed as the Fittest City in America.
According to WebMD:
The list is based on personal factors [...]
Heart Failure Is Now Linked To Obesity
As can only be expected, the list of health issues that can be attributed to obesity just keeps on growing. A Swedish study of about 37000 women and 43000 men who were tracked for 6 years, found that increase in BMI led to an increased incidence of heart failure (although for women the incidence [...]
