Currently recommended daily dietary allowances of vitamin D may be insufficient to prevent deficiency in children, according to researchers at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and the…

Strategies to support healthier diets among seniors need to take into account differences between elderly men and women, according to UBC research.

Title: Good at Imagining Aromas? You May Be Prone to Weight Gain
Category: Health News
Created: 7/7/2015 12:00:00 AM
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We’ve been taught to think that counting calories is a great way to lose weight, keep our size stable, and prevent us from having serious muffin top. But counting calories just ain’t all it’s cracked up to be.The three reasons why counting calories doesn’t work:1. It makes you think about food ALL the time.Do you really want to be weighing,…

Patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) often need to modify their eating habits, but many youths with T1DM do not consume a healthful diet.

Parents are urged to feed kids with diabetes a low-fat diet, but they may need help with problem-solving skills to provide healthy foods without a heavy burden of extra costs or prep time, researchers say. Healthy diets are important for everyone, and people with type 1 diabetes don’t have drastically different food requirements from everyone else, said lead author Susana R. Patton of the pediatrics department at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City. Diabetes increases the risk for cardiovascular disease, so managing fat intake is important, she said.

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I’ve got some bad news. You’ve been duped. In fact, for the better part of the last century we’ve all been lied to about what it means to eat a healthy diet. Here’s the story: In the 1960s and ’70s eight U.S. Senators had heart attacks and died while in office. Seeing his colleagues drop dead around him alarmed the 54-year-old Senator George…

By Janice Neumann (Reuters Health) – Better care and counseling is needed to teach overweight women hoping to become pregnant about the health dangers of their excess weight and the importance of maintaining a healthy diet, a new U.S. study concludes. “Overweight women trying to conceive largely misperceive their weight, which is concerning because they may not try to adopt healthier behaviors,” said study author Mahbubur Rahman of the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2006 recommended improved pre-conception care, including screening for obesity and education about its risks, they add.