http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. The impact on children of alcohol and fast-food advertising in sports sponsorship is concerning health experts at The University of Western Australia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-kids-sport-ads-alcohol-fast.html Health Tue, 22 Jan 2013 07:31:52 EST news278062306 (Medical Xpress)—Neither genes nor the environment alone can predict obesity in children, but when considered together a strong relationship emerges, according to researchers at Penn State, St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The researchers found that children who have a genetic variant that makes them less sensitive to the taste of certain bitter compounds, also called "non-tasters," were significantly more likely to be obese than children who were "tasters" of these compounds—but only when they lived in an unhealthy food environment. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-interaction-genes-environment-obesity-children.html Overweight and Obesity Thu, 01 Nov 2012 06:52:46 EST news270971554 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 Taxes on unhealthy food and drinks would need to be at least 20% to have a significant effect on diet-related conditions such as obesity and heart disease, say experts in the British Medical Journal today. Ideally, this should be combined with subsidies on healthy foods such as fruit and vegetables, they add. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-percent-fat-tax-population-health.html Health Tue, 15 May 2012 18:30:02 EST news256311732 Ditching the diet for Thanksgiving? Turkey with all the fixings isn't the only temptation causing would-be dieters to miss their goals, according to a new Cornell University review article that finds powerful environmental cues are subconsciously bending willpower every day. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-gobbling-extra-stuffing-willpower-cheap.html Health Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:30:01 EST news240674756 (AP) -- Calorie by calorie, first lady Michelle Obama is chipping away at big portions and unhealthy food in an effort to help America slim down. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-lady-headway-healthy-foods.html Health Fri, 16 Sep 2011 03:23:02 EST news235362126 Children are being exposed to almost one advertisement every day for unhealthy food, beverage, and restaurant brands via product placements on prime-time TV, finds a study from Yale's Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity. The study — which is the first to categorize, quantify, and report children's exposure to this type of marketing — shows a loophole in the current food industry's self-regulatory pledges to advertise only "better-for-you" foods to children, say the researchers. The study appears in the September issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-product-placements-unhealthy-food-children.html Health Tue, 02 Aug 2011 04:15:32 EST news231477319 The introduction of legislation that restricts unhealthy food, for example by reducing salt content and eliminating industrial trans fats, would prevent thousands of cases of heart disease in England and Wales and save the NHS millions of pounds, finds research published on bmj.com . http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-laws-healthier-lifestyles-nhs-money.html Health Fri, 29 Jul 2011 04:10:01 EST news231130089 Got lots of fast food restaurants and other outlets that sell junk food in your neighborhood? Then your teen is more likely to nosh regularly on burgers and fries and wash them down with a soda. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-unhealthy-food-outlets-teens-junk.html Health Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:20:05 EST news230994219 Researchers at the University of Liverpool have found that children who watch adverts for unhealthy food on television are more likely to want to eat high-fat and high-sugar foods. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-tv-food-advertising-children-unhealthy.html Health Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:06:02 EST news228654354