|
Early Years Cook's Training
Grub4life offer a range of specialist cookery master classes and ...
|
|
|
|
Orexigen(TM) Initiates Contrave (TM) Phase III Clinical Trials for obesity
Previous Trials Demonstrate Greater Weight Loss than Placebo with No Indication of Early Weight Loss Plateau -
Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc.
(24-05-2007)
click for full story
|
“These are the foods we naturally look to as we try to lose extra pounds; however, they are the ones that we need to be careful about,” says Dee Rollins, PhD, R.D., dietitian with Baylor Regional Medical Center at Grapevine. Case and point — granola. “Everyone thinks granola bars are wonderful and yet if you turn it over and look at the ingredients you’ll see that it has high fructose corn syrup and a lot of sugars,” adds Dr. Rollins.
(06-03-2007)
|
When it comes to packaged and prepared foods, trans fats are just about everywhere. Kristen Albani, M.S., R.D., L.D., a registered dietitian at Baylor Medical Center at Irving, helps answer some questions about the fat that’s been grabbing headlines lately.
(06-03-2007)
|
When a group of women get together, sooner or later the conversation turns to their dissatisfaction with their bodies. It’s called “fat talk,” a term coined by anthropologist Mimi Nichter who looked at the behavior in middle school and high school girls. Appalachian State University psychology professors Denise Martz, Lisa Curtin and Doris Bazzini and a team of students are looking at the behavior among college-age women.
(06-03-2007)
|
SCOTLAND is "sleepwalking" into a diabetes epidemic that will cause hundreds of thousands of people to die young, experts warn today. Research from Edinburgh University reveals the number of people diagnosed with type-2 diabetes will soar by 60 per cent within the next ten years. The situation is mainly due to the obesity crisis, with current estimates showing a quarter of the population is likely to be classed as obese by 2018.
(06-03-2007)
|
AT EIGHT years old, Connor McCreaddie is massively overweight. Until recently, Connor weighed in at 15st 8lbs, nearly four times the weight of a healthy child of his age. Last week, a child protection conference decided against putting him into care, although doctors warned that he was facing an early death unless he lost lots of weight. Connor's case may be an extreme example, but more and more children are packing on the pounds. One in three youngsters under 12 is classed as overweight in Scotland, and dire warnings have been issued that this will be the first generation where, as a consequence of obesity, children die before their parents.
(04-03-2007)
|
A US nationwide study found that one measure of obesity rose more than twice as fast when kindergarten and first-grade students were on summer vacation than when they were in school. And obese children were helped most by being in school: they gained weight no faster than other children did during the school year. It was only during the summer that overweight children gained weight more quickly than average.
(04-03-2007)
|
A new study from Joslin Diabetes Center may shed light on why some people can eat excessive amounts of food and not gain weight or develop type 2 diabetes, while others are more likely to develop obesity and this most common form of diabetes on any diet. The study, which used two strains of mice with differing tendencies to gain weight and develop diabetes on a high-fat diet, identified genetic and cellular mechanisms that may prevent certain mice on a calorie-dense diet from gaining weight and developing metabolic syndrome.
(04-03-2007)
|
Personnel Today has teamed up with Anne Diamond’s web community www.fathappens.com and leading Obesity Charity TOAST to take a snapshot of British Employers’ prejudice against obesity in the workplace. The survey updates the original findings from their 2005 survey and is run in association with TOAST’s National Obesity Awareness Week which launches on 12th March 2007.
(04-03-2007)
|
A new study1 has found that white kidney beans may help to promote weight loss and reduce Body Mass Index in overweight people.Sixty participants were given one tablet for 30 consecutive days, before a main meal rich in carbohydrates. One half was given tablets containing Phase 2 Starch Neutralizer®, an extract of the common white kidney bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) whilst the other half were given placebo tablets. Each subject's body weight, fat and non-fat mass, skin fold thickness, and waist/hip/thigh circumferences were measured.
(01-03-2007)
|
Social workers and other members of the North Tyneside Local Safeguarding Children Board said after their meeting that they would continue to work with the family of the boy, whose name is now protected by an injunction. The boy, who weighs 14-stone and has refused to eat healthy food, was the subject of a child protection conference at which both he and his mother were present.
(01-03-2007)
|
A clinical trial shows that a herbal supplement comprising 450mg St John’s Wort (Hypericum perforatum) and 350mg Passionflower (Passiflora incarnata) per daily dose can ease mild to moderate depression. Its claims shows a considerable reduction in depression and anxiety. The results were felt quickly – within two weeks of taking the supplement.
(01-03-2007)
|
A leading campaigner for those suffering from eating disorders has criticised the media for promoting skinny models and inappropriate body-shapes. In an exclusive interview with health and fitness website www.keepthedoctoraway.co.uk, Deanne Jade, founder of the National Centre for Eating Disorders, has criticised the role of the media in adding to pressure to be thin.
(28-02-2007)
|
ITV executive chairman Michael Grade raged at Ofcom's restrictions on junk food advertising at a media conference in London yesterday (27 February), calling it "nonsense." "There is common cause between broadcasters and advertisers to wean the government off the idea that the answer to problems is restricting advertising," Grade said. "Thinking that will change the way people behave is nonsense. Either ban the products or get out of our lives!"
(28-02-2007)
|
The new trial, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, investigated the effects of garlic, both raw and from supplements, on the cholesterol levels of 192 adults with slightly elevated cholesterol levels (hypercholesterolaemia). After six months of garlic intervention, no significant changes in LDL-cholesterol levels were observed.
(28-02-2007)
|
US Watchdog The Center for Science in the Public Interest [CSPI] said today: - With Appetizers, Entrées, and Desserts Weighing in at 2,000 Calories Apiece, the Time is Ripe for Menu Labeling, Says CSPI. A 2,000-calorie appetizer. A 2,000-calorie main course. Another 1,700 calories for dessert. Those aren’t typos. It’s more like par for the course at Ruby Tuesday, On the Border, the Cheesecake Factory, and countless other top table-service chain restaurants. But since those chains make almost zero nutrition information available on menus, their customers don’t have a clue that they might be getting a whole day’s worth of calories in a single dish, or several days’ worth in the whole meal. And rather than compete to make their products healthier, restaurant chains are competing with each other to make their appetizers, entrées, and desserts bigger, badder, and cheesier than ever before.
(28-02-2007)
|
|
|
|
