The fast food chain Long John Silver’s on Sunday said it would roll out its first non-fried fish menu items later this month as the restaurant industry responds to consumer calls for healthier food.
Despite its public statements and pledges to help combat childhood obesity, the overwhelming majority of foods marketed by the children’s media giant Nickelodeon are of poor nutritional quality, according to an analysis conducted by the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest.
Based on the Social Cognitive Theory model for health behavior change 43 college students completed a series of quantitative measurements and a structured qualitative interview. Participants reported that regularly engaging in exercise was difficult. This may be due to poor planning/time management, satisfaction with body image, lack of accountability, and feelings of laziness. Dietary patterns generally met recommendations but were low in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. Social support for exercise and healthful dietary habits are important factors.
31 patients with fatty liver disease and no obesity, diabetes or hyperlipidemia had their diet investigated. 80% of them consumed more than 50 g/day of added sugar in softdrinks compared with 20% in healthy controls. When controlled for other factors, including dietary composition and physical activity, soft drink beverage consumption was the only independent variable that was able to predict the presence of fatty liver in 82.5% of cases with a sensitivity of 100%, a specificity of 76%, a positive predictive value of 57% and a negative predictive value of 100%. Conclusion: This study may add important insight into the role of sugar-sweetened beverage consumption as a cause of fatty liver in patients without the normal risk factors. Patients are encouraged to change their long-standing drinking behaviour.
Belinda Morley, Kathy Chapman, Kaye Mehta, Lesley King, Boyd Swinburn and Melanie Wakefield published the article ‘Parental awareness and attitudes about food advertising to children on Australian television’ in AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH (2008 Aug;32(4):341-7).
Please find below the well considered 9 questions to parents that they used:
- To what extent, if at all, are you concerned about the advertising of unhealthy food products at times when children watch television (TV)?
- To what extent, if at all, are you concerned about the use of popular personalities or characters to promote unhealthy foods to children?
- To what extent, if at all, are you concerned about food advertising that promotes free toys or gifts with products?
- To what extent, if at all, are you concerned about the amount of TV advertising of unhealthy food at times when children watch TV?
- Regulations are currently in place dealing with TV advertising to children. Did you know that these sorts of regulations existed?
- Do you agree or disagree that the government should introduce stronger restrictions on food advertising at times when children watch television?
- At the moment action is only taken against breaches of the advertising regulations when people make a formal complaint. Would you support or oppose the system being changed so that action is taken against breaches any time they occur?
- Please tell me whether you support or oppose a ban on advertising of unhealthy foods at times when children watch TV
- Please tell me whether you support or oppose a ban on all food advertising at times when children watch TV
Find the abstract on Pubmed here
According to research published ahead of print in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, brain power decline can be prevented and possibly even reversed by engaging in regular aerobic exercise.
Civil society organizations and scientists from around the world are calling for ‘a new development paradigm’ to address the toxic combination of climate change, growing poverty and inequality and poor health. The new report says that unfair social and economic policies combined with bad politics are to blame for the poor state of the health of millions of people in the world. The report makes stinging criticisms of key global actors, including the WHO, the World Bank and the Gates Foundation. The report calls on governments to stop the Bank from interfering in health politics. The report was launch Thursday in London. It will be available online from November 12th.
Professor i børneernæring Kim Fleischer Michaelsen mener, at børn kan få en opfattelse af, at man bliver stor og stærk ligesom håndboldspillerne, hvis man spiser Nutella til morgenmad.
In overweight or obese women, physical activity, even at light or moderate intensities, lowers the risk of cancer of the lining of the uterus (endometrial cancer), according to findings from the American Cancer Society’s prospective Cancer Prevention Study II Nutrition Cohort study.
Study finds antioxidants lower inflammation caused by high blood sugar.