A consultation to explore ways of reducing the average amount of saturated fat in people?s diets and help make healthier eating easier has been published today by the Food Standards Agency.
Where you live might play a bigger role in your risk for heart disease than your ethnicity or race. New research reveals that rural residents were more knowledgeable about healthy eating and heart disease risk than urban residents, but that urban residents were more motivated and optimistic about getting healthy.
Participation in sports with real or perceived weight requirements, such as ballet, gymnastics and wrestling, is strongly associated with unhealthy weight control behaviors and steroid use in teens, according to researchers at the University of Minnesota.
Thousands of children in hundreds of Australian towns and cities will soon be involved in a major national nutrition and physical activity survey, the Assistant Minister for Health and Ageing, Christopher Pyne, said today.
Health Minister Tony Clement today launched the new 2007 version of Canada’s Food Guide – “Eating Well with Canada’s Food Guide” at the Real Canadian Superstore in Orleans, Ontario.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, claiming hundreds of thousands of lives each year. During American Heart Month, we renew our commitment to fighting cardiovascular disease by increasing public awareness of this deadly disease and understanding of how it can be prevented.
US President Bush spoke on childhood obesity. “Laura and I are so pleased to welcome the Ad Council, as well as leaders from our business community, to talk about a serious American problem, and that is childhood obesity.”
Supermarket “grocery store tours” could be the key to healthier lifestyles and prevent chronic diseases such as coronary heart disease concludes a study published in the Health & Fitness Journal.
While the benefits of regular physical activity are well documented, public health officials struggle for methods to promote increased physical activity that will work in American society. In a study published in the January 2007 issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, researchers examine the challenges in promoting physical activity in a society less and less inclined to walk, run or exercise.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) in HHS’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced the availability of two new learning tools to help consumers use the Nutrition Facts label to choose nutritious foods and achieve healthy weight management.