Heart Disease Starts in Childhood
By age 10, nearly all kids have fatty streaks in their arteries. This is the...
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Friday Favorites: How Many Steps Should We Get Every Day?
The official exercise recommendations are a “trade-off between optimizing health outcomes and minimizing requirements for individuals,” but what does the science say is best?
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Methionine Restriction as a Life-Extension Strategy
Plant-based diets may prove to be a useful nutrition strategy in both cancer growth control...
Starving Cancer with Methionine Restriction
Methionine restriction—best achieved through a plant-based diet—may prove to have a major impact on patients...
Eating Outside Our Kingdom
A higher rate of cancer deaths among those that handle and process meat is attributed...
Poultry Exposure Tied to Liver and Pancreatic Cancer
Cancer-causing viruses in poultry may explain increased risks of death from liver and pancreatic cancers.
Eating Better to Look Better
Public health campaigns can use vanity to improve fruit and vegetable consumption, since experiments show...
Changing Our Taste Buds
Within a few weeks of eating healthier, our taste sensations change such that foods with...
Tricks to Get Adults to Eat Healthier
Changing food perceptions and incorporating puréed vegetables into entrees can improve the dietary quality of...
Tricks to Get Kids to Eat Healthier at Home
Tips like cutting vegetables into shapes, covertly puréeing greens into sauces, and modeling healthy behaviors...
Tricks to Get Kids to Eat Healthier at School
Interventions to improve child nutrition at school have included everything from reducing cookie size, adding...
Artificial Food Colors and ADHD
In response to definitive evidence showing artificial colors may increase inattentiveness, impulsivity, and hyperactivity among...
Treating ADHD Without Stimulants
Exercise has been shown to be effective in controlling attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder symptoms,...
