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Most Pre-Packaged Meals, Snacks for Toddlers Contain Too Much Salt
March 21, 2013 Most pre-packaged meals and snacks for toddlers contain high amounts of sodium. Some toddler meals had as much as 630 mg of sodium per ... > full story -
Eating Too Much Salt Led to 2.3 Million Heart-Related Deaths Worldwide in 2010
March 21, 2013 Excessive sodium (salt) consumption caused 2.3 million heart-related deaths in the world in 2010. Nearly 1 million of these deaths occurred in people 69 years and ... > full story -
Serious Mental Illness No Barrier to Weight Loss Success
March 21, 2013 Through a program that teaches simple nutrition messages and involves both counseling and regular exercise classes, people with serious mental illness can make healthy behavioral changes and achieve ... > full story -
Scientists Identify Gene That Is Consistently Altered in Obese Individuals
March 21, 2013 Food and environment can chemically alter your gene function, and scientists have identified a gene that is consistently altered in ... > full story -
What You Eat Before Surgery May Affect Your Recovery
March 21, 2013 According to a new study, the last few meals before surgery might make a difference in recovery after ... > full story -
Genes May Be Reason Some Kids Are Picky About Food
March 21, 2013 Parents may plead, cajole or entice their children to try new foods, but some kids just won't budge. Now, new research reveals that the reason these kids fear new foods has less to do with what's on ... > full story -
Financial Benefits of Plant-Based, Mediterranean Diet
March 20, 2013 People who followed a six-week cooking program and followed simple, plant-based recipes decreased their total food spending, purchased healthier food items and improved their food ... > full story -
Explaining How Extra Virgin Olive Oil Protects Against Alzheimer's Disease
March 20, 2013 The mystery of exactly how consumption of extra virgin olive oil helps reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD) may lie in one component of olive oil that helps shuttle the abnormal AD proteins ... > full story -
Antidepressants for Pregnant Moms Don't Affect Infants' Growth, Study Suggests
March 20, 2013 Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants taken by a woman during pregnancy do not impact her infant's growth over the first year, reports a new study. There had been concern that ... > full story -
180,000 Deaths Worldwide Each Year May Be Associated With Sugary Soft Drinks, Research Suggests
March 19, 2013 Sugar-sweetened sodas, sports drinks and fruit drinks may be associated with about 180,000 deaths around the world each year, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's ... > full story
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