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Eating behaviours of preschoolers may be associated with risk of cardiovascular disease in later life, suggests a study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-behaviors-preschoolers-future-heart-disease.html Health Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:41:39 EST news290691684 Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa—disorders characterized by extreme eating behavior and distorted body image—are among the deadliest of psychiatric disorders, with few proven effective treatments. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-neural-circuitry-anorexia-bulimia.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:20:01 EST news289502181 (HealthDay)—Women who report "eating more protein" as a weight loss strategy achieve weight loss over two years, according to a study published in the May issue of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-protein-strategy-women-weight.html Health Sat, 11 May 2013 07:20:01 EST news287461187 No matter how you slice it, cutting fruit into bite-sized pieces prompts children to eat more apples during lunchtime, according to a recent study by Cornell University researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-fruit-easier-sales-consumption-school.html Health Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:41:16 EST news285435671 (HealthDay)—Small kids who are given large plates and then allowed to serve themselves take more food and consume more calories, new research finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-kids-big-plates-food.html Health Mon, 08 Apr 2013 09:18:01 EST news284631445 (Medical Xpress)—Psychologists at the University of Birmingham suggest that 'attentive eating' affects how much people choose to eat. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-over-egging-chocolate-easter-eye.html Health Fri, 29 Mar 2013 07:10:01 EST news283758923 (Medical Xpress)—Taking part in unhealthy eating behaviors may cause women who are concerned about their diet and self-image to experience a worsening of their moods, according to Penn State researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-unhealthy-bad-mood-worse.html Health Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:58:49 EST news282571115 Dieters may want to forget episodes of falling off the wagon, but researchers say an attentive memory for what is eaten could help people eat less at their next meals. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-food-memories-aid-weight-loss.html Health Fri, 08 Mar 2013 14:20:01 EST news281972779 Sweden on Friday became the newest European country to be hit by a widening meat products scandal, as frozen-food company Findus said it was recalling beef lasagna meals there after tests confirmed the products contained horsemeat. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-horsemeat-lasagna-recalled-sweden.html Health Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:51:10 EST news279550262 Eating while distracted generally makes people eat more without being aware of it, but reducing bite sizes may be able to counter this effect, according to new research published January 23 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Dieuwerke Bolhuis and colleagues from Wageningen University, Netherlands. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-effect-smaller-outweighs-tendency-distracted.html Overweight and Obesity Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:32:45 EST news278184758 A plate of crispy battered shrimp, mushrooms, tomato and arugula tossed with spaghettini and a cream sauce took the cake Wednesday as the most calorie-rich chain restaurant dish in America. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-calorie-rich-shrimp-pasta-tops-xtreme.html Overweight and Obesity Thu, 17 Jan 2013 04:24:31 EST news277619065 Making small easy changes to our eating habits on a consistent basis - 25 days or more per month - can lead to sustainable weight loss, according to research by Professor Brian Wansink in Cornell University's Food and Brand Lab. The challenge is to figure out which changes work for specific individuals and how to stick with changes long enough to make them second nature. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-small-prompts-weight-loss.html Overweight and Obesity Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:13:58 EST news275159559 Want your children to be healthier snackers? A new Cornell study finds that serving children combined snacks of vegetables and cheese led them to eat 72 percent fewer calories—and be just as satisfied as those who were served only potato chips. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-combo-snacks-cheese-vegetables-kids-calories.html Health Mon, 17 Dec 2012 13:30:02 EST news274972288 Older African Americans who are dissatisfied with their lives tend to choose diets high in fat and low in fruits and vegetables. They can improve their health-and eating habits-through social support, according to new research from the University of Georgia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-social-buffering-role-poor-diet.html Health Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:20:31 EST news274097213 Media articles and nutritionists alike have perpetuated the idea that for healthy metabolisms individuals should consume small meals multiple times a day. However, new research conducted at the University of Missouri suggests all-day snacking might not be as beneficial as previously thought, especially for obese women. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-larger-meals-healthier-obese-women.html Overweight and Obesity Thu, 06 Dec 2012 13:03:51 EST news274021424 (Medical Xpress)—Brazilian researchers Karina Fonseca-Azevedo and Suzana Herculano-Houzel suggest humans evolved bigger brains because they learned to cook their food. In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the two outline research they've conducted that involved counting the number of neurons in the brains of various primates, the results of which showed that the only way early humans could have evolved bigger brains was to find a way to get more energy from the food they ate, i.e. cooking it. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-cooked-food-larger-human-brains.html Medical research Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:30:08 EST news270204231 Patients who undergo bariatric weight loss surgery may be at increased risk for substance use (drug use, alcohol use and cigarette smoking) following surgery, particularly among patients who undergo laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery who appear to be at increased risk for alcohol use following surgery, according to a report published Online First by Archives of Surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-weight-loss-surgery-substance.html Surgery Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:00:04 EST news269514600 (HealthDay)—Waiting until the last minute to buy Halloween candy is a good way to stick to a healthy diet and cut extra calories, an expert suggests, because if the candy isn't sitting around the house, you won't be tempted to eat it. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-scary-calorie-halloween.html Health Sun, 14 Oct 2012 14:44:25 EST news269444643 Consumers watching their diet should pay close attention to the amount of unhealthy foods they eat, but can relax when it comes to healthier options, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-dessert-diet.html Health Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:19:06 EST news266584739 (Medical Xpress)—If your dinner date chooses unhealthily from a restaurant menu, you are less likely to stick to healthy options, according to University of Birmingham research published in the British Journal of Nutrition. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-dinner-date-weight.html Overweight and Obesity Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:28:35 EST news265998453 (Medical Xpress)—Teenagers in gen­eral are rel­a­tively unhealthy eaters. But minority teens in par­tic­ular have higher rates of obe­sity and eat far fewer fruits and vegetables. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-fruits-veggies.html Health Fri, 31 Aug 2012 09:30:01 EST news265622178 Many people can drop pounds quickly in the early phases of a diet, but studies have found that it is difficult to keep the weight off in the long term. For post-menopausal women, natural declines in energy expenditure could make long-term weight loss even more challenging. A new study finds that in post-menopausal women, some behaviors that are related to weight loss in the short term are not effective or sustainable for the long term. Interventions targeting these behaviors could improve long-term obesity treatment outcomes. The research is published in the September issue of Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-long-term-weight-loss-menopause.html Health Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:00:03 EST news265309013 Seven people, most of them elderly women, died after eating pickles contaminated with E. coli in northern Japan, officials said Sunday, in the country's deadliest mass food poisoning in 10 years. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-contaminated-pickles-japan.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sun, 19 Aug 2012 04:42:32 EST news264570130 New research by Simon Fraser University grad student Daniella Sieukaran is the first to study the long-term relationship between dieting and heavy drinking among young adults. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-drunkorexia-students-risky-behaviour.html Health Mon, 13 Aug 2012 09:11:04 EST news264067859 (HealthDay) -- Eating too quickly may raise your risk of diabetes, a small, preliminary study suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-fast-diabetes.html Diabetes Tue, 08 May 2012 10:50:01 EST news255690671 Television viewing and unhealthy eating habits in U.S. adolescents appear to be linked in a national survey of students in the fifth to 10 th grades, according to a report published in the May issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. The study is part of the Nutrition and the Health of Children and Adolescents theme issue. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-associations-tv-viewing-school-children.html Health Mon, 07 May 2012 16:00:20 EST news255614970 When eating is motivated by pleasure, rather than hunger, endogenous rewarding chemical signals are activated which can lead to overeating, according to a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM). The phenomenon ultimately affects body mass and may be a factor in the continuing rise of obesity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-pleasure-triggers-body-reward-overeating.html Medical research Thu, 03 May 2012 03:04:02 EST news255233034 Scientists say they have identified five eating patterns for U.S. adults that are strongly influenced by age, race, region, gender, income and education. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-dietary-patterns-adults-based-demographics.html Health Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:00:01 EST news250857111 (Medical Xpress) -- The wider the variety of foods served at a meal, the more a person will eat, new Cornell research shows. Conversely, having a "one-pot" dish, such as a soup, pasta, stew or stir-fry, will cut down on the amount of food and calories consumed. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-foods-youll.html Health Tue, 13 Mar 2012 05:31:18 EST news250835464 Share a meal with someone and you are both likely to mimic each other's behavior and take bites at the same time rather than eating at your own pace, says a study published in the Feb. 2 issue of the online journal PLoS ONE. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-behavior-dining-partners.html Health Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:00:16 EST news247337556