Obesity gradually numbs the taste sensation of rats to sweet foods and drives them to consume larger and ever-sweeter meals, according to neuroscientists. Findings from the Penn State study could uncover a critical link between taste and body weight, and reveal how flab hooks the brain on sugary food.
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Childrens’ bathroom habits Car and airplane trips, holiday goodies, new toys, and unfamiliar surroundings. The holidays are a crazy time for kids, often causing their bathroom habits to get out of whack. What might sound like a minor inconvenience is actually a common, sometimes serious problem for children, and not just around the holidays. Now a new study finds childhood constipation is costing us all.
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Last month, FDA issued its Interim Safety and Risk Assessment of Melamine and its Analogues in Food for Humans. This interim safety and risk assessment indicated that melamine, in its chainlike “polymerized” form, has been used to manufacture dishes, plastic resins, and components of paper and paperboard that may come in contact with food.
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Mice that were fed a diet rich in fat, sugar and cholesterol for nine months developed a preliminary stage of the morbid irregularities that form in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. The study results, published in a doctoral thesis from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet (KI), give some indications of how this difficult to treat disease might one day be preventable.
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When it comes to getting rid of excess weight, the biggest hurdle that people face is that of getting started. The first step to successful getting rid of excess weight is to set some goals such as how much weight you plan to lose and by when you expect to lose all the weight.Write your […]
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Most people have wrongly stereotyped those who suffer from mental disorders. In actuality, nothing could be further from the truth. Mental disorders is an umbrella term that includes panic attacks, anxiety disorders and social anxieties. Medical conditions don’t discriminate, you an be susceptible to an attack regardless of your age, and the symptoms can […]
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Tea drinking started in China but is not exclusive to the Chinese culture. Various societies and tribes worldwide have been drinking tea for different reasons. Some people drink herbal green tea for medicinal purposes as they believe that green tea can heal all sorts of physical ailments and even heal the soul.
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Heart monitors are such devices which are used to measure and record the rate of your heart during your strenuous exercise period. These types of devices give you instant feedback on the level of your work out, with the help of which you can plan your total work out procedure. In one way or the […]
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Dr. Damon T. Arnold, state public health director, today announced at 10 additional schools in Illinois will begin implementing the CATCH program - Coordinated Approach to Child Health. Today’s announcement continues Governor Rod R. Blagojevich’s efforts to address the obesity problem by changing children’s and parents’ attitudes and behaviors toward nutrition and physical activity. “We are facing an obesity epidemic across the nation and here in Illinois.
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Department of Consumer Protection Commissioner Jerry Farrell, Jr. today warned consumers not to eat Topaz Wafer Rolls with Hazlenut Chocolate-Flavored Cream Filling, reportedly distributed by National Brands of Valley Stream, New York and sold locally by Ocean State Job Lot.
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