You have probably heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Eating a healthy breakfast provides energy to start the day and is important for weight control.
A tiny magnetic bracelet implanted at the base of the throat is greatly improving life for some people with chronic heartburn who need more help than medicine can give them.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Federal health officials say the parents of premature babies enrolled in a study of oxygen treatment several years ago weren’t properly informed of the risks: a kind of blindness or death.
I have a colleague who follows a very strict semi-vegetarian diet. He eats mostly fruits and vegetables, whole grains (oatmeal, brown rice, and whole wheat pasta), beans (including lentils), and nuts.
“Diets don’t work!” “Exercise can actually make you gain weight!” “You can take supplements that will melt fat away while you sleep!” Claims like these should make you wonder if someone is trying to fool you.
So far in my series about the major nutrients for National Nutrition Month, I have covered carbohydrates and fats. This week I will write about protein.
Since March is National Nutrition Month, I am writing about the major nutrients in our diets: carbohydrates, fats and protein. Last week I provided information about carbohydrates, the major energy source in our diets. This week I will write about fats,...
CHICAGO — Want to know your chances of dying in the next 10 years? Here are some bad signs: getting winded walking several blocks, smoking and having trouble pushing a chair across the room.
It has been 15 years since Jared Fogle first appeared in ads for Subway. His remarkable weight loss, attributed in part to eating at Subway, is credited with increasing sales and creating a health “halo” around the restaurant and its food. Jared...
For much of the “minicourse” class period at Kennedy Middle School last week, the sounds of silence filled the room as Damion Bell gave students a lesson in...
Reggie Cean works for the Centre de Formation Fritz Lafontant in Haiti – a vocational school that is providing education in many areas to move the nation forward.
Have you ever noticed that some people struggle to lose weight while others seem to have no trouble maintaining a healthy body weight? Why is it that some people lack the motivation to exercise while others are can’t seem to stop moving? What about...
