http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. With childhood obesity recognized as a growing national problem, a University at Albany School of Public Health study finds that a majority of food advertisements in magazines targeting parents emphasize products of poor nutritional quality that may contribute to unhealthy weight gain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-food-ads-parents-convenience-bad.html Health Wed, 23 Jan 2013 07:10:06 EST news278145046 When it comes to climate change, deforestation and toxic waste, the assumption has been that conservative views on these topics are intractable. But new research from the University of California, Berkeley, suggests that such viewpoints can be changed after all, when the messages about the need to be better stewards of the land are couched in terms of fending off threats to the "purity" and "sanctity" of Earth and our bodies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-environment.html Medical research Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:13:36 EST news274378397