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.
Archive for category Fruits and vegetables
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.
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.
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.
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.
A review by researchers from University of Massachusetts Dartmouth suggests a potential role for cranberry in dietary cancer prevention.
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.
13,355 men and 15,724 women followed for 7 years. The F&V intake was measures using a validated FFQ.
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!
Study: Effects of a Clinical Counseling Guide for Nutrition which is a brief, stage-based nutritional counseling guide designed for use in clinical settings.