While you don't need a New Year as an excuse to begin new or better habits…it seems that a fresh start is easier to accomplish at the beginning of a new year.
All mothers-to-be should be weighed regularly during pregnancy to help combat the many dangers to women's and babies' health from maternal obesity, a group of medical experts is urging.
At any given time 15 to 35% of people are trying to loose weight and the statistics are not in their favor. The fact is that 90 to 95 % of those people will fail to loose weight and successfully keep it off.
Obesity has reached what some feel is epidemic proportions in this country as well as around the world. Today nearly two thirds of American adults are considered overweight or obese.
Should new vitamin D recommendations be made? According to a new study carried out at the University of California at Davis, the recommended dose of vitamin D that most experts recommend taking is too low during the winter months when there's less direct sunlight
Americans, at least as a group, may have reached their peak of obesity, according to data the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Wednesday.
Weight Watchers has now officially endorsed Chicken McNuggets as a "healthy meal" in New Zealand, where McDonald's restaurants will begin carrying the Weight Watchers logo on several menu items.
Finding foods and nutritional supplements that can help prevent cancer is one of those one-step-forward, two-steps-back areas of research: frequently, when researchers think they've hit upon something that works, a new study comes along that finds that, no, eating that actually doesn't help prevent cancer-or worse, that eating too much of that might actually increase your odds of developing cancer.
A clinical review paper published in the British Medical Journal is warning the public that widespread vitamin D deficiency is resurrecting the once-obsolete disease called rickets.
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Holiday with now only two days away, the fun-filled season is thriving - which means we all will be drinking & eating far more than usual, as we are celebrating the special day.
"People looking at the health of the Inuit have demonstrated that the traditional diet, which is almost exclusively raw meat, is in fact very healthy for them," Smit said. "But because of the new difficulties hunting, people are adapting their diets to what's available in the stores.