http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A soda war fizzed in New York on Tuesday as the city health department began to consider a proposal by health-conscious Mayor Michael Bloomberg to ban super-sized soft drinks. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-soda-wars-fizz-york.html Health Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:37:50 EST news258741465 Is it really more expensive to eat healthy? An Agriculture Department study released Wednesday found that most fruits, vegetables and other healthy foods cost less than foods high in fat, sugar and salt. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-healthy.html Health Wed, 16 May 2012 15:00:13 EST news256399206 Shop the perimeter and avoid center isles, don't buy anything at eye level, investigate the label. Grocery shopping can be a daunting task. Moreover, studies have shown that Americans obtain most of their food from grocery stores and their shopping habits are predictive of their consumption of fruits, vegetables, and sugared soft drinks. Many grocery stores are taking an active role in helping consumers make healthful food choices. You may have even seen your grocery store use a nutritional score placed right on the shelf's price label for a food item. The question asked in a study published in the May/June 2012 issue of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior is "who knows how to use these grocery store shelf signs?" http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-healthy-grocery-shopper.html Health Thu, 03 May 2012 14:10:01 EST news255272039 "Come and get it!" A phrase historically proclaiming that the communal meal is ready, is heard all too infrequently among contemporary American households, especially as children get older. Indeed, over 40% of the typical American food budget is spent on eating out, with family meals often being relegated to holidays and special occasions. Aside from negative effects on the family budget, eating out has been shown to be generally associated with poor food choices and bad health. Of particular interest to public health experts is growing scientific evidence that fewer family meals may translate to increased obesity risk and poor nutritional status, especially among children. But getting this message out to busy parents in a way that will convince them to spend more time at the dining room table with their children is problematic at best. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-additional-evidence-families-healthiest.html Health Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:50:01 EST news254397915 A New Zealand inquest has been told a woman's 10-litre (2.2 gallon) a day Cola-Cola habit may have contributed to her death, reports said Friday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-soft-cited-factor-nz-woman.html Health Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:32:24 EST news254136717 In Brazil, a country known for girls in mini-bikinis and where body-consciousness borders on obsession, nearly half the population is overweight, a study by the Ministry of Health released Tuesday found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-brazil-alarmed-obesity.html Health Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:47:34 EST news253302443 (Medical Xpress) -- Scientists can already see damage in the eyes of children who have been drinking fizzy drinks and eating too many carbohydrates. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-fizzy-predictor-future-health-problems.html Health Tue, 03 Apr 2012 06:20:36 EST news252652796 Young adults drink more alcohol if they are in the company of peers who drink heavily. NWO researcher Helle Larsen has scientifically confirmed this link for the first time by observing young adults in a research lab converted into a cafe. She defended her PhD thesis on 19 March 2012 at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-young-adults-company-heavy-drinker.html Health Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:30:01 EST news251536533 Babies are not able to metabolize or excrete caffeine very well, so a breastfeeding mother's consumption of caffeine may lead to caffeine accumulation and symptoms such as wakefulness and irritability, according to an interview with expert Ruth Lawrence, MD, published in Journal of Caffeine Research, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. The interview is available on the Journal of Caffeine Research website at www.liebertpub.com/jcr. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-consuming-caffeine-breastfeeding-baby.html Health Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:43:26 EST news249050573 Making a simple substitution of water or diet soft drinks for drinks with calories can help people lose 4 to 5 pounds, a new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-difference-diet-beverages-scales.html Health Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:30:01 EST news248361304 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 Individuals who drink diet soft drinks on a daily basis may be at increased risk of suffering vascular events such as stroke, heart attack, and vascular death. This is according to a new study by Hannah Gardener and her colleagues from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and at Columbia University Medical Center. However, in contrast, they found that regular soft drink consumption and a more moderate intake of diet soft drinks do not appear to be linked to a higher risk of vascular events. The research appears online in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, published by Springer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-potential-link-daily-consumption-diet.html Health Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:15:48 EST news247227337 With growing concern that excessive levels of fructose may pose a great health risk – causing high blood pressure, kidney disease and diabetes – researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, along with their colleagues at the University of Florida, set out to see if two common sweeteners in western diets differ in their effects on the body in the first few hours after ingestion. The study, recently published in the journal Metabolism, took a closer look at high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) and table sugar (sucrose) and was led by Dr MyPhuong Le (now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Colorado) and Dr Julie Johnson, a Professor of Pharmacogenomics at the University of Florida. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-effects-common-sweeteners-body.html Health Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:23:48 EST news246561819 (Medical Xpress) -- Can obesity be taxed away? Several UConn professors think that taxing fattening foods can help – but not in the way many people would expect. Instead of trying to make unhealthy foods prohibitively expensive by applying a hefty tax, they believe a small tax can provide revenue for educating the public to make better dietary decisions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-tax-soft-obesity.html Health Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:33:19 EST news245493184 Teens who drink more than five cans of non-diet, fizzy soft drinks every week are significantly more likely to behave aggressively, suggests research published online in Injury Prevention. This includes carrying a weapon and perpetrating violence against peers and siblings. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-high-fizzy-soft-consumption-linked.html Health Tue, 25 Oct 2011 04:08:23 EST news238734493 (Medical Xpress) -- Frequent use of energy drinks is associated with binge drinking, alcohol-related social problems and misuse of prescription drugs among musicians, according to researchers at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-energy-linked-substance-musicians.html Health Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:35:26 EST news227442912 (Medical Xpress) -- A study into taste preference suggests children who are thirsty should be encouraged to drink water. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-consumption-sugary-dulls-buds.html Health Thu, 09 Jun 2011 07:12:31 EST news226822257 A natural additive used to make foam in soft drinks also may help prevent the sometimes-deadly rotavirus infection in children or reduce its severity, a University of Texas at Arlington biology professor says in a research paper to be published in June. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-chilean-soapbark-tree-key-rotavirus.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 24 May 2011 12:42:16 EST news225459709