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Two-thirds of Australian mums-to-be are in the dark when it comes to how much weight they should gain during pregnancy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-weighty-issue.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Mon, 12 Nov 2012 09:50:01 EST news271934835 (Medical Xpress)—A University of Arizona study is looking at whether couples develop unhealthy eating and activity habits as a way of coping with relationship stress or bonding with their partner. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-relationship-contributing-weight-gain.html Health Thu, 01 Nov 2012 07:53:28 EST news270975200 High birth weight, rapid weight gain and having an overweight mother who smokes can all increase the risk of a baby becoming obese later in childhood, research by experts at The University of Nottingham has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-factors-childhood-obesity.html Overweight and Obesity Tue, 30 Oct 2012 13:55:31 EST news270824117 Parents are concerned about food marketing and the way it impacts their children's eating habits and would support policies to limit the marketing of unhealthy food and beverages to children, according to a study from Yale's Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-issue-parents-policies-limiting-unhealthy.html Overweight and Obesity Tue, 30 Oct 2012 09:50:02 EST news270807181 Obesity rates in young people in Britain appear to be going into reverse, a top gathering of health officials heard Monday, as the message on the risks of being overweight seems to be getting through. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-young-britons-message-obesity-expert.html Overweight and Obesity Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:36:55 EST news270128209 (HealthDay)—In primary care patients with type 2 diabetes, depressive symptoms (DS) are predictive of future lifestyle-oriented self-management behaviors, while diabetes-related distress (DRD) predicts glycemic control, possibly due to medication adherence, according to research published online Oct. 1 in Diabetes Care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-diverse-distress-distinct-impact-diabetes.html Diabetes Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:10:01 EST news269107830 Whether your neighbourhood is conducive to walking could determine your risk for developing diabetes, according to a new study by researchers at St. Michael's Hospital and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-diabetes-higher-neighborhoods-arent-walk-friendly.html Diabetes Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:09:08 EST news267116939 (Medical Xpress) -- Along with reading, writing and arithmetic, do you know if physical activity will be a big part of your child's school day? What about after school and on weekends -- is your child getting enough physical activity? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-physical-school-day-after-school.html Health Tue, 07 Aug 2012 07:20:02 EST news263541677 (HealthDay) -- Healthy eating and low or moderate levels of exercise during pregnancy can help a woman avoid excessive weight gain and may reduce her infant's risk of being overweight or obese later in life, new research indicates. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-simple-curb-excessive-weight-gain.html Overweight and Obesity Fri, 20 Jul 2012 12:10:01 EST news262003350 Popeye inspired a generation of growing Baby Boomers to eat its spinach. Today, role models such as Batman can prompt children to develop their own healthy eating habits, a recent Cornell University study finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-batman-priming-children-healthier-fast.html Health Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:15:59 EST news261911722 Research to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), the foremost society for research into all aspects of eating and drinking behavior, introduces novel cost-effective strategies to facilitate healthy eating among weight-conscious consumers. A number of experiments, by Esther Papies and colleagues of Utrecht University, The Netherlands, now suggest that simply adding words related to health and weight on posters, restaurant menu's, or recipe cards can stimulate healthy food choices among dieters and overweight individuals, in a variety of real-life settings. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-subtle-goal-primes-offset-hedonic.html Health Tue, 10 Jul 2012 05:04:36 EST news261115471 Programs to promote healthy eating can substantially reduce the amount of unhealthy foods and beverages on school grounds if the programs focus on a school's specific needs and involve teachers, parents, staff, and administrators, according to a Kaiser Permanente Southern California study published in BioMed Central's open access journal International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-kids-healthier-school-based-nutrition-involve.html Health Wed, 27 Jun 2012 02:39:45 EST news259983499 Teaching new mums about healthy eating and active play can help cut the risk of their child being overweight or obese, a study published today in the British Medical Journal finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-healthy-advice-mothers-child-obesity.html Overweight and Obesity Tue, 26 Jun 2012 18:30:03 EST news259944471 A study carried out in Spain reveals that certain healthy habits, like eating more than four times a day or not eating too fast, are associated with lower body fat levels independently of exercise habits during free time. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-adolescents-meals-day-thinner.html Health Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:44:48 EST news259407878 If lower-income mothers want kids with healthy diets, it's best to adopt healthy eating habits themselves and encourage their children to eat good foods rather than use force, rewards or punishments, says a Michigan State University study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-healthy-kids.html Health Wed, 30 May 2012 14:35:18 EST news257607313 Women in their seventies who exercise and eat healthy amounts of fruits and vegetables have a longer life expectancy, according to research published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-healthy-diet-fruits-vegetables-life.html Health Wed, 30 May 2012 11:31:33 EST news257596247 How do you get a picky young eater who refuses everything to like fruits and vegetables? How do you get children to try nutritious foods when all they want is something sweet or salty? How do you raise healthy eaters without constant mealtime struggles? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-vegetables-redefines-healthy-eaters.html Health Tue, 29 May 2012 14:44:44 EST news257521476 The people of Denmark are not only concerned about what they eat, but they are willing to pay more tax to eat healthier and make more informed eating choices. The results of this study come at a time when healthy eating and increasing rates of obesity are becoming a major concern for people the world over. Despite this concern, however, government policy actions have rarely been evaluated. The findings are an outcome of the EU-funded EATWELL ('Interventions to promote healthy eating habits: evaluation and recommendations') project, which has received EUR 2.5 million under the 'Food, agriculture and fisheries, and biotechnology' (KBBE) Theme of the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). EATWELL is looking into a variety of European policies aimed at reducing obesity and the lengths people would go to become healthy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-healthy-state-denmark.html Health Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:50:02 EST news254979573 Obesity among children has long been a rising problem in large parts of the world. Parents play a crucial role in shaping good childhood eating habits, according to new research from the University of Stavanger. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-carrot-healthy-child.html Health Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:41:37 EST news253968092 A study by Université Laval's Maurice Doyon and French and American researchers shows that U.S. consumers know surprisingly more about the fat content of the foods they buy than their French counterparts. Paradoxically, the obesity rate is nearly three times higher in the United States (35%) than it is in France (12%). In light of these results, published in a recent edition of the British Food Journal, the researchers cast doubt on the notion that providing nutritional information is an effective way to encourage healthy eating habits. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-paradox-plate-nutritional-content-foods.html Health Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:55:40 EST news252154525 A study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and The University of Minnesota indicates that a parent's weight change is a key contributor to the success of a child's weight loss in family-based treatment of childhood obesity. The results were published today in the advanced online edition of the journal Obesity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-child-weight.html Health Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:11:18 EST news250967472 The study of more than 11,000 pregnant women, in partnership with Mars Petcare, showed that those who owned dogs were approximately 50% more likely to achieve the recommended 30 minutes of exercise a day through high levels of brisk walking than those without dogs. Scientists suggest that as it is a low-risk exercise, walking a dog could form part of a broader strategy to improve the health of pregnant women. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-dog-pregnant-women.html Health Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:00:12 EST news248543788 Children are naturally drawn toward gaming and other types of technology, creating an ideal opportunity to design interactive media tools to encourage physical activity and promote healthy eating habits, according to an article in a special issue of the journal Childhood Obesity celebrating the second anniversary of First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move! initiative. The issue includes a special Foreword by Mrs. Obama and is available free online at http://www.liebertpub.com/chi. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-games-interactive-media-powerful-tools.html Health Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:35:25 EST news248362518 If there is an obvious truth one can learn from perusing the various dining options on Lehigh’s sprawling Asa Packer campus—from the University Center and Rathbone Hall to the sorority and fraternity houses on “the Hill”—it is this: students have access to a broad spectrum of foods within a reasonable distance. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-healthy-food-options-economic.html Health Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:20:02 EST news248083681 A new study published in the journal Respirology reveals that a high level of soft drink consumption is associated with asthma and/or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-large-amounts-soft-asthma-copd.html Addiction Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:10:01 EST news247854999 An Emory University study published in the January issue of Health Affairs assesses real-world lifestyle interventions to help delay or prevent the costly chronic disease that affects nearly 26 million Americans. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-diabetes-spotlight-lifestyle-interventions.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:40:05 EST news245420652 (Medical Xpress) -- Parents of some obese children could save up to £6.58 ($10.22) each week by changing their shopping habits and opting for a healthier diet, according to research published in the latest issue of the British Journal of General Practice. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-healthy-diet-junk-food-uk.html Health Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:50:01 EST news243239688 A new analysis of national survey data finds that less than one-quarter of parents of overweight children recall ever being told by a doctor or other health care provider that their children were overweight. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-parents-recall-told-doctors-child.html Overweight and Obesity Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:31:08 EST news242325062 Given the obesity epidemic among the nation's young, one would hope that children's hospitals would serve as a role model for healthy eating. But hospitals in California fall short, with only 7 percent of entrees classified as "healthy" according to a new study published in Academic Pediatrics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-food-children-hospitals-largely-unhealthy.html Health Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:23:23 EST news241928595 A web-based computer-tailored intervention aiming to increase physical activity, decrease sedentary behavior, and promote healthy eating among adolescents was not associated with positive long-term outcome measures, but may have positive short-term effects on eating behaviors, according to a report published Online First by Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-web-based-intervention-ineffective-weight-gain.html Health Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:34:59 EST news239906093