How much is too much? The bigger the portion, the more we overeat
How much is too much? The bigger the portion, the more we overeat
Miami Herald - So it makes sense that another weapon has been added to the diet arsenal: portion control. ”We don’t know anymore what a good portion is,” says Linda Gassenheimer, a Miami Herald food columnist whose latest book is The Portion Plan: How to Eat the
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Vitamins Add Little in Heart Fight
Wall Street Journal - Middle-aged women at risk for heart disease received little benefit from taking vitamins C, E or beta carotene, researchers said yesterday. Though vitamin supplements provided no heart benefit, eating a diet rich in those vitamins does make for a
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Starting a low-fat diet young can be beneficial, study finds
Indianapolis Star - DALLAS — Teaching children from a young age to eat a low-fat diet can be effective — even as they reach their teens and begin eating more meals away from home, according to a new study. The study of children in Finland found that those who were
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Public ‘unaware of diet and cancer link’
Guardian Unlimited - Almost half of Britons do not know about the link between poor diet and the risk of cancer, according to a survey published today. The poll, for the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) , found that 46% of the British public was unaware of the
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No safe diet haven
Worldnews.com - Soft drinks - even diet ones - may be linked with increased risk factors for heart disease and diabetes, U.S. researchers say. They found that adults who drink one or more soft drinks a day had about a 50-per-cent higher risk of metabolic syndrome
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Diet foods might cause kids to overeat
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The diet sodas and snacks so popular with weight-conscious adults may backfire in children, if new animal research is correct. In experiments with juvenile rats, researchers at the University of Alberta in Canada found
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