People who try to lose weight by dieting and doing exercise could lose about 20 percent more weight than people who only diet. One year after losing weight the people had gained about half of the weight they had lost. But those who did exercise weighed less than those who were physically inactive.
Antioxidant supplements generally do not help prevent cancer and other life-threatening conditions. Too high doses of the antioxidants vitamin A, beta-carotene and vitamin E may even increase the risk of dying sooner.
An in-outlet, observational, cross-sectional design was utilized to assess the opportunities for healthy food choices and physical activity in two contrasting cities in Alabama. Thirty retail food outlets and 29 physical activity outlets were inventoried. None of the convenience stores carried frozen, low-sodium or dark-green, yellow vegetables, low-fat milk or yogurt, low-sodium and low-fat cheese, while none of the supermarkets in Tuskegee stocked low-sodium vegetables. In Tuskegee, the single public recreational area, which offered activities such as basketball, fees ranged from $25 to $35/month. Tuskegee has a shortage of “chain” supermarkets and a dominance of convenience stores which stocked few healthy foods. Overall, there are limited opportunities for healthy food and physical activity choices, which could be a barrier for chronic disease prevention efforts.
A cross-sectional study of 16-year-old girls (n 275) and boys (n 199) and their mothers was undertaken. It was found that eating breakfast less than five times per week was independently associated with a high soft drink consumption in both girls and boys. Neither soft drinks nor fruit juice was associated with BMI. It might be possible to influence fruit juice intake among teenagers by aiming at their mothers, whereas the adolescents themselves should be targeted when the aim is to reduce soft drink consumption.
Love Your Veggies Grants
Oct 12
Ten Elementary Schools to Receive $15,000 Grant to Promote Fresh Vegetable Consumption. A salad dressing maker, School Nutrition Foundation (SNF) and Produce for Better Health Foundation announced this years Love Your Veggiesâ„¢ grant program in the US. Innovative programs that will increase the access to, and consumption of, fresh fruits and vegetables in schools are invited to apply.
Experts at the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) welcomed the new set of guidelines on physical activity from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Included in the 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans is specific acknowledgment that regular activity lowers risk for colon, breast and other cancers. “It’s clearer than ever that regular physical activity plays a central role in cancer prevention, and we at AICR are pleased to see the U.S. government officially recognize this fact in such a high-profile manner,” said AICR Director of Research Susan Higginbotham, Ph.D., R.D.
Women who were overweight are four times more likely to develop cancer of the uterine lining, while obesity boosts the risk by six-fold. Obese women also are at greater risk of breast and colon cancer. Excess weight also increases mortality from many cancers, with the strongest association seen for endometrial cancer; heavy women are 6.25 times more likely to die from the disease. To investigate awareness of the obesity-cancer link, Soliman and her colleagues surveyed 1,545 women, 28 percent of whom were normal weight. Another 24 percent were overweight, while 45 percent were obese. Just 42 percent knew that obesity increased their risk of endometrial cancer, while 53 percent knew that colon cancer is associated with obesity and 54 percent were aware that excess weight increases breast cancer risk.
Obesity appears to increase the risk of miscarriage, according to a review study appearing in the journal Fertility and Sterility by reserachers from University of Sheffield, UK.
En skole ved Vejle har med flere ‘cykeltog’ – hvor børn i flok anføres af en voksen – fået 45 familier til at droppe bilen om morgenen.
For the second straight year, “increasing the availability of whole grains” was the top response given by school nutrition directors when they were asked about changes they were making in school meal programs. According to the School Nutrition Association’s 2008 Back to School Nutrition Trends Report, 85.2% of schools cited whole grains.