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Addictive eating behavior and substance dependence have similar patterns of brain activity, finds a new study from the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale. The study is published in the Archives of General Psychiatry and is the first to link symptoms of addictive eating behavior with specific patterns of brain activity in [...]
Almost everyone who is health conscious agrees that American food portions are out of control! One of our most visited blogs “Eat less, Move More” has generated a lot of comments and many readers are surprised how small portions need to be if you want to lose weight. We’ve also received a number [...]
Study Shows Strong Link between Obesity and Mortality The largest study of its kind has confirmed a strong association between overweight and obesity and an increased risk of death. The study also identified a range of body-mass index (BMI) at which mortality risk is lowest, confirming earlier studies indicating that people who are in the [...]
I just got back from a brief vacation in the Italian region of Emilia Romagna–the land of Parma ham, proscuitto, Pasta Bolognese and tasty hard cheeses. One of the regional specialties is a ravioli filled with spinach and ricotta covered in a butter sauce and sprinkled with parmesan cheese (Are your arteries choking yet?). [...]
In 2006, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that 21.6% of the US adult population reported arthritis, with significantly higher prevalence in women than in men (24.4% vs. 18.1%). Arthritis prevalence increased with age and was higher among women than men in every age group. With the aging of the US [...]
Benefits shown in middle-aged and elderly women Middle-aged and elderly Swedish women who regularly ate a small amount of chocolate had lower risks of heart failure risks, in a study reported in Circulation: Heart Failure, a journal of the American Heart Association. The nine-year study, conducted among 31,823 middle-aged and elderly Swedish women, looked at [...]
The first study to compare the effectiveness of the birth control pill in women with marked weight differences has found that the pill works equally well in women with obesity and thinner women. This new finding by physician-scientists at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center refutes a long-held conviction among many doctors that the pill may [...]
In July, a commentary in the journal Pediatrics discussed several new studies that have increased our knowledge of the association between tobacco smoke exposure and childhood morbidity and mortality. Collectively, these new reports demonstrate that in several categories of chronic childhood illness (asthma, obesity, and mental health disorders) there are small-to-moderate independent associations with tobacco [...]
I just received a FDA email about the safety of color additives in food. What caught my eye was the subheading: “Without color additives, colas wouldn’t be brown, margarine wouldn’t be yellow and mint ice cream wouldn’t be green.” I wonder if colorless food could help reduce the obesity epidemic!!! Seriously, to read the [...]
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