Young children who do not display an ability to regulate their behavior or to delay gratification in exchange for a larger reward appear predisposed to gain extra weight by their pre-teen years, according to two new reports.
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College students were given one of two menus. One menu featured French fries, chicken nuggets and a baked potato; the other included those same items as well as a salad. 10% af the students exposed to the short menu ordered fries. While 33% of the students exposed to the longer menue (including salads) chose fries. Wow! The research suggests that the presence of healthy options on a menu can induce some diners to eat less healthily than they otherwise would. See also http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/599219
Desk jobs are increasing obesity, with many employees and employers ignorant of the risks of sitting down all day, researchers said on Wednesday.
Even in today’s uncertain economy, next to price, there is nothing more dear to consumers, seemingly, than convenience. But what exactly do consumers mean by ‘œconvenience’? The Hartman Group made an 18 page report on Convenience Foods available for free for only one week.
Research from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles suggests women believe men find excessive drinking sexually attractive and appealing, but it appears this is a giant misperception. College women, listen up: You don’t need to drink to excess to impress college men.
Fructose commonly used in fruit juices, soft drinks and snack foods, has been blamed for contributing to rising obesity and type 2 diabetes in teenagers. A new US study published in March found that fructose increased appetite. Found naturally in fruit, the sugar is used to sweeten foods and drinks. A team from John Hopkins University in Baltimore said high consumption of fructose was potentially more dangerous than other forms of sugar such as glucose because of the way it affected the brain.
Junk food advertising on school campuses can undermine schools’ work to promote health and wellness among students. A new fact sheet that explains how school districts can develop an advertising policy that promotes health has been developed.
sugar-sweetened beverages are significantly associated with weight loss. Cutting out just 1 serving daily was associated with a weight loss of 0.49 kg at 6 months and 0.65 kg at 18 months. Researchers examined how changes in beverage consumption over 18 months affected the weight of 810 adults who participated in a behavior intervention study. And they concluded that their study supports policy recommendations and public health efforts to reduce intakes of liquid calories, particularly from sugar-sweetened beverages, in the general population.
Alcopops are sweet drinks made to taste like cola or lemonade. Typically, alcopops contain 5 to 8 % alcohol. They controbute to underage drinking and should carry warning labels, say many American adults who took part in a new national survey.
Not all laws are created equal when it comes to reducing the number of drinking-related auto accidents. Most effective are laws targeting the purchase and possession of alcohol by youth, including use-and-lose laws that allow the suspension of a driver’s license for any underage alcohol violation and zero-tolerance laws that make it illegal for young people to drive with any amount of alcohol in their system.