Banning Sodas At School Not Enough, Say Experts

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

Although children are not buying sugary drinks at school because of state bans, their overall consumption of such beverages does not seem to have dropped, researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago reported in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine after carrying out a study involving nearly seven thousand ...

Report: Soda Bans Not Curbing Teens’ Consumption

Monday, November 7th, 2011

Banning sugar-filled sodas from U.S. schools as an effort to combat childhood obesity doesn’t reduce overall consumption levels of sweetened beverages, research found Find more info about Report: Soda Bans Not Curbing Teens' Consumption photos videos pictures. read more

Sugary Drinks Industry Aggressively Targeting Children And Teenagers

Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

The consumption of sugary sodas has grown so much over the last three decades that they are now the number 1 source of calories in the diets of American teenagers, says a new report issued by The Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity. The authors say that their ...

High Chocolate Consumption Linked To Lower Stroke Risk In Females

Tuesday, October 11th, 2011

Women who eat at least two chocolate bars each week appear to have a 20% lower risk of stroke, compared to females of the same age and weight who rarely or never eat chocolate, researchers from the Karolinska Institute, Sweden, reported in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. ...

An Apple Or Pear A Day May Keep Strokes Away

Friday, September 16th, 2011

Apples and pears may keep strokes away. That's the conclusion of a Dutch study published in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association in which researchers found that eating a lot of fruits and vegetables with white flesh may protect against stroke. While previous studies have linked high consumption of ...