IFIC (International Food Information Council) which is finanzed by the food industry revised their fiber fact sheet. They also have a Wgole Grains Fact Sheet: http://www.ific.org/publications/factsheets/wholegrainsfs.cfm
Can lifestyle changes really improve people’s health? In this WHO podcast you can learn about new evidence from research conducted in Iran. Amongst a large number of interventions also you can find the introducing half-portions in restaurants and fast food eateries and advocating for the development of bicycle lanes in the city. Read the orginal article here: http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/87/1/07-049841.pdf
The number of people diagnosed with diabetes has soared by 50 per cent in just a year. An analysis of official figures shows at least 150,000 new cases last year up from 100,000 in 2007. It represents one new sufferer every three minutes.
Waltham Forest council, in East London is to become the first in the country to ban new fast-food outlets from opening within 400 metres of schools, parks and other places where young people gather.
Reinforced chairs and beds, operating tables and specially adapted ambulances all add to the multi-million pound bill.
The number of failed UK government healthy-eating initiatives is expanding in step with the national waistline.
According to a new study from Finland girls who smoke 10+ cigarettes per day are at greatest risk, particularly for abdominal obesity. Their waist sizes are 1.34 inches larger than nonsmokers’ waists are as young adults.
Research published in Diabetes Care shows that some diabetic youth use unhealthy approaches to weight loss. These tactics including fasting, using laxatives and diet aids, vomiting and missing insulin doses.
The increase in the potentially deadly skin cancer melanoma that has occurred over the last several decades can’t be linked just to better screening and earlier detection of the cancer, according to a new study.
New cases of the deadly skin cancer melanoma are increasing among men and women in the United States, particularly among older men, researchers report.