Jan

30

How to feel like eating breakfast first thing in the morning

January 30, 2007 | Comments Off

Everyone tells us that breakfast is the most important meal of the day and that it should be a substantial meal. Yet, some people awaken not feeling hungry and have no desire to wolf down bowls of stodgy cereal and plates of dry toast. For such people, breakfast is more easily skipped until they feel […]

Jan

30

20 Things You Didnot Know About…Obesity

January 30, 2007 | Comments Off

Child-safety seat manufacturers are starting to make bigger models after a recent study showed that over 250,000 U.S. children age 6 and under are too fat to use them. According to a study by the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University, nearly half the 4,000 people responding to an online […]

Jan

30

Get informed to prevent cardiovascular disease

January 30, 2007 | Comments Off

Cardiovascular disease (CVD), primarily heart disease and stroke, causes more deaths in North Americans of both genders and all racial and ethnic groups than any other single cause of death. Cardiovascular disease is a chronic condition of degeneration, which develops over a long period of time, most often decades. Individuals with cardiovascular disease may not […]

Jan

30

Hypertension: A little alcohol may help the heart

January 30, 2007 | Comments Off

This study analyzed medical and alcohol consumption data on 11,711 men with hypertension. Over a 16-year span, 653 of the men had a heart attack. Those who had one alcoholic drink (beer, wine or liquor) daily were 32 percent less likely to have had a heart attack, fatal or not, than were men who did […]

Jan

30

Keep taking the statins

January 30, 2007 | Comments Off

As this is the season for strokes and heart attacks, as well as frosty mornings, all those who know they are at risk should consider, then reject, the opinions expressed recently by Dr Malcolm Kendrick on statins. If extracts from his book fairly reflect his beliefs, then he seeks to persuade people to abandon statins […]

Jan

27

Big waist may predict poor lung function

January 27, 2007 | Comments Off

In a study of normal-weight, overweight and obese adults, researchers found that waist circumference was consistently negatively associated with lung function across all weight categories. Study chief Dr Yue Chen of the University of Ottawa told Reuters Health that waist circumference is a better predictor of lung impairment than body mass index (BMI) - a […]

Jan

27

Diet, exercise take off equal weight

January 27, 2007 | Comments Off

Eating less and exercising more are equally good at helping to lose weight, US researchers said in a study that challenges many of the popular tenets of the multi-billion dollar diet and fitness industry. Tests on overweight people show that a calorie is just a calorie, whether lost by dieting or by running, they said. […]

Jan

27

Trans fat fight: Heart of the matter

January 27, 2007 | Comments Off

Drop the chocolate chip cookie and step away from the bag. That’s an order. This is the food police. Do you know how many grams of trans fats you were just consuming? No? That’s a shame. Around these parts, we like to keep an eye on what we’re eating. That includes those specially treated oils […]

Jan

27

Eat healthy, take other steps to help prevent heart disease

January 27, 2007 | Comments Off

We all want to eat healthy, but the temptations are all around us, on television, billboards, store fronts and just about everywhere we look, we are seeing ads for food. While some of these foods are healthy and contribute to a heart healthy diet, many are for fat-laden, high sodium foods that increase your risk […]

Jan

27

Quitting smoking may be harder if mom smoked during pregnancy

January 27, 2007 | Comments Off

Quitting smoking may be more difficult for individuals whose mothers smoked during pregnancy, according to animal research conducted by Duke University Medical Center researchers. Prenatal exposure to nicotine is known to alter areas of the brain critical to learning, memory and reward. Scientists at the Duke Center for Nicotine and Smoking Cessation Research have discovered […]

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