Research Paper Title Association Between Apple Consumption and Physician Visits: Appealing the Conventional Wisdom That an Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away. Importance Fruit consumption is believed to have beneficial health effects, and some claim, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” Objective To examine the relationship between eating an apple a day and… Read More
Do you want to keep on-trend with the latest fashionable diet? Then look to the Red Lady of El Miron, who ate the Paleo diet almost 19,000 years ago. For her, it was no fad. The isotopes in her dental enamel, microscopic wear patterns on her teeth and the stuff embedded between them reveal that… Read More
Making any improvements, however small, to physical activity or dietary habits is likely to help individuals stay at a healthy weight or prevent further weight gain, guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence have said. The new guidelines described the many things that people can do to maintain a healthy weight that… Read More
Vegetarian diets are associated with an overall lower incidence of colorectal cancers, a large prospective cohort trial of Seventh Day Adventist men and women has found (Orlich et al., 2015). The US study, published online by JAMA Internal Medicine, included 77,659 men and women who were assessed by a food frequency questionnaire and categorised into… Read More
Research Paper Title New School Meal Regulations Increase Fruit Consumption and Do Not Increase Total Plate Waste. Background The 2010 Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act required the USDA to update the nutrition standards of the National School Lunch Programme. New policies were implemented in the 2012–2013 school year. These changes were followed by anecdotal reports of increased food… Read More
Not necessarily. For years, this advice has been given to parents to avoid triggering a nut allergy – but it may be out-dated. Children regularly given foods containing peanuts before age five were 17 times less likely to develop a peanut allergy than children whose parents avoided giving them peanuts. Research Paper Title Randomized Trial… Read More
A study comparing the weight of biological and adopted children to that of their parents has found that lifestyles, rather than genes, are primarily responsible for the children being overweight (). The researchers, from the Centre for Economic Performance at the School of Economics and Political Science, concluded that policies to influence parents’ lifestyles could… Read More
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