News and blogs: Weight-loss and exercise
Each school week over 100,000 children (aged five to 14) skip breakfast at least one day of the week (18 per cent of the age group), and 36,000 children never eat breakfast at home on a school day (...
Educating parents on healthy eating could be the key to combating childhood obesity.An Australian study divided 165 overweight primary school children and their parents into three groups. In one...
Not-for-profit Recovery Solutions Group Trust (RSGT) has launched Auckland’s first private prevention, education and treatment service for adolescents experiencing eating disorders such as...
In a real-life nutrition experiment, New York fast food restaurants displayed calorie information on their menus while researchers examined the effect this had on purchasing decisions.The researchers...
If you’re older than 70, here’s yet another great reason to exercise regularly – research has shown exercise can help strengthen memory.Research followed ‘regular exercisers...
A survey, conducted by researchers at the University of Otago, of more than 1500 women aged between 40 and 50 has found those who eat slowly are much less likely to be overweight or obese than those...
Exposure to products labelled and scented like foods may increase your intake of those foods.These ‘food-cues’ may trigger overeating, especially in chronic dieters. More research is...
A study has found those workers who eat healthily and exercise regularly have better job performance and lower absenteeism.Unsurprisingly, individual well-being not only relates to the quality of a...
Get your meals and snacks under control by planning ahead.Research has found that pre-meal planning is the most important predictor of meal size and energy consumption.
You can reduce your risk of type 2 diabetes by up to 60 percent if you do two-and-a-half hours of exercise a week......provided that you make it a combination of activities that boost your heart rate...
British research has shown that women make presumptions about men’s suitability as a partner by qualifying what foods they have in their grocery shopping trolley.The UK survey revealed red wine...
A recent study found people’s food perceptions may influence hormonal regulation of hunger and fullness.In the study published in the journal Health Psychology, participants drank...
Making water exciting could be the key to getting families drinking more water and fewer sugary drinks.The makers of SodaStream followed the water drinking habits of four Kiwi families for two weeks...
A new study in the US has shown that while children aged three to five years are influenced by ‘junk food’ advertisements, they are also influenced by their parents’ messages about...
A US study at Cornell University found placing fruit in a fruit bowl more than doubled fruit sales in school canteens, when compared with fruit placed on a steel tray.