Archive for category Fruits and vegetables

Safeway and Warner Bros. Team Up to Market Healthy Products

Looney Tunes characters wil appear this summer on healthy products including more than 100 items across 30 categories. And Warner Bros. will no longer license its Looney Tunes characters for use on the packaging of unhealthy foods.

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Citrus intake not linked prostate cancer risk

Dr. Bae and collegues in Korean did a systematic litterature review on 11 articles including six case-control studies, one nested case-control study and four cohort studies.

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Health behaviour among immigrants to Denmark

The immigrants are healthier in terms of alcohol and vegetable consumption and unhealthier with regard to leisure-time physical activity. The immigrants do not regard their own effort as important in maintaining good health.

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Prohibit fruits and kids will eat more !

Restriction of attractive unhealthy snacks increase the desirability and intake of these snacks. So does restriction of fruits. This suprising study was done by psycologists in The Netherlands.

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The Mediterranean diet is history

Spanish researchers studied the diet of Italian and Spanish students. Overweight appears to be related not only to physical activity levels going down, but also to the fact that young generations are giving up the traditional Mediterranean diet.

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Anticancer activities of cranberry phytochemicals

A review by researchers from University of Massachusetts Dartmouth suggests a potential role for cranberry in dietary cancer prevention.

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People living close to a fast-food restaurant eat less fruits and vegetables

But they were also less likely to be overweight. Method: Travel distances to the closest fast-food outlet were calculated for all neighbourhoods in New Zealand. Data appended to a national health survey.

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F&V lowers CVD death in Japanese women and not men

13,355 men and 15,724 women followed for 7 years. The F&V intake was measures using a validated FFQ.

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The Food Dudes program increase families intake

This is a 16 days follow up study from Ireland where 4-11 year old kids are shown video films, given small rewards and the availability of F&V is increased. It works!

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Walk Texas! 5-A-Day Intervention for WIC

Study: Effects of a Clinical Counseling Guide for Nutrition which is a brief, stage-based nutritional counseling guide designed for use in clinical settings.

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