Eating school lunches and watching too much television are contributing to the obesity of Michigan 6th graders, according to cardiovascular researchers. The University of Michigan Frankel Cardiovascular Center came to
More exercise is not cutting into the nation’s high obesity levels, and unwise diets are killing more people than about anything else—including smoking, drinking and drug use. Those
One of my favorite iPod apps is for Stitcher, which collects podcasts that I might be interested in listening to. I must admit I favor either old time radio drama
More than 90 percent of kids’ meals offered by the nation’s chain restaurants fail to meet the National Restaurant Association’s definition of a healthy meal for children, according
Why am I not surprised with the snarky comments made around the anniversary of Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign? It was entirely predictable that if Mrs. Obama celebrated
What if all the while we’ve been blaming soda and junk food and inactivity for obesity, our guts were trying to tell us something else entirely? That’s because
When I saw National School Lunch Week on the calendar for Oct. 15-19, it occurred to me there might be a straight line to be drawn between the past need
Three studies published in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine suggest that drinking sugar-sweetened beverages contributes to obesity, lending weight to the theory that capping sugary drink consumption
Healthy food doesn’t have to be expensive. That’s the message of a new guide to eating well on a budget released by the Environmental Working Group today. The
Sugary drinks were again the target of anti-obesity efforts this week as the American Medical Association threw its support behind a tax on these beverages. At the AMA annual meeting
The old theory that healthy foods are a luxury that a tight budget can’t afford is just that – an old theory – according to a government study released Wednesday.
Researchers
The national hysteria over obesity has reached a crescendo this week, as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hosts the conference, “Weight of the Nation” in Washington,