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The Pediatric Academic Societies convened in Boston for their annual meeting starting Saturday. Here's a quick update of some of the useful research presented.
The sodium levels in the same fast food items can vary widely depending on where you live. Take a guess which country’s burgers are saltiest.
Telling people to choose healthy foods isn’t working. A better solution may be to let people eat whatever they want—just not to increase their calories over time
Contrary to popular wisdom, eating at McDonald’s isn’t exactly cheap, costing some $28 for a family of four. Which might help explain the results of a recent study from the University of California, Davis, which found that people’s visits to fast-food joints increased along with their incomes, and that poor people were spending fewer dollars [...]
Ratio of fast food restaurants to supermarkets in the U.S. According to a recent study from the University of North Carolina that tracked the eating habits of 5,000 people over 15 years, researchers found that living near a supermarket had little impact on how healthily people ate. Living close to fast-food restaurants did, however. The [...]
More American families are eating out than ever before, but what impact are all of those out-of-home meals having on health, not to mention our waistlines?
This week on the podcast, we discuss three topics: How restaurant chains may mislead you when writing their menus; whether nutraceuticals work; and new data on the perils of sexting. To hear the podcast, click this play button:
You may avert your eyes from them, or purposefully cover them up when you’re scanning the menu at your favorite restaurant, but increasingly, they’re hard to ignore — the unsettling number of calories in the meal you’re about to consume. And as if the information isn’t sobering enough, here’s something to make you dislike it [...]
How much TV do your kids watch? If you don’t know, you might want to find out, say experts, since the time children spend in front of a TV or computer screen can have a profound effect on their physical and developmental health.
Many foreign-born American citizens have said they feel that their fellow U.S. citizens question their Americanness. This spurning can be particularly difficult for immigrants’ U.S.-born children: some Asian-American kids, for instance, have sought plastic surgery or blue contact lenses to give their eyes a more “American” appearance. Now comes evidence that immigrants’ kids may even [...]
Although arthritis is extremely common, people still have many misconceptions about the disease. How much do you really know?
