'Chemistry and Flavor of Hispanic Foods' one-day symposium, March 15
...ine, which is becoming increasingly commonplace in restaurants and grocery stores throughout the country. The trend is fueled by this country's fast-growing Hispanic population and its rich and diverse culinary heritage. While consumers have enjoyed treats such as tortilla chips and margaritas for many years, sc...US study highlights clear link between increased fast-food consumption and obesity
...quent (more than twice a week) visits to fast-food restaurants at baseline and follow-up (87 individuals) gained ...rsity, Copenhagen, Denmark), concludes: "Fast-food restaurants may argue that the evidence that customers are being super-sized by their meals is too weak. But sho...Frequent fast food meals increase weight, diabetes risk, NHLBI study says
Young adults who eat frequently at fast-food restaurants gain more weight and have a greater increase in in...cet *. After 15 years, those who ate at fast-food restaurants at least twice each week compared to less than once a week had gained an extra ten pounds and had a ...800 calories a day less and women never missed them
... intake. The results suggests that home cooks and restaurants could take an easy step toward obesity prevention by adding more fruits and vegetables and trimming the fat to decrease energy density without having to serve tiny portions." Reducing energy density is the key to Rolls' eating plan and the sub...Researchers examine oleic acid in atmosphere
...an areas particularly where there are clusters of restaurants can have fairly high levels of atmospheric oleic acid, said Sandhya Gopalakrishnan, the study's lead investigator and a postdoctoral researcher in chemistry at Ohio State. "It's the byproducts formed by the reactions between fatty acid parti...Studies indicate healthy eating may affect cancer development, improve digestive system
...n 30 minutes. Children who ate daily in fast-food restaurants had more frequent episodes of pain than those who ate fast food only once per week. Eating fresh fruits played a protective role against RAP, even for those children who ate two or fewer servings of fruits per week. "Our study found that abdominal ...Britain not doing enough to stop people from smoking claim public health experts
... Australian States now have legislation making all restaurants smoke-free, leading to an unpleasant surprise for non-smoking Australian visitors to Britain. "The UK is paying the price for its delay in adopting the full range of effective strategies to help smokers give up and dissuade young people from taking u...Childhood obesity leads to adult diabetes, researcher says
... has reached epidemic proportions as the fast-food restaurants are geared mostly to children and families. However, in recent days, the fast-food industry has made headlines by modifying their menus to be healthier. One example of the problem she cites is from a colleague who reported the case of an obese fi...NIEHS and American Public Health Association sponsor program
... in which the homes are relatively far from shops, restaurants and other destinations within each county. The study found that as the degree of sprawl increased, so too did the chances that residents living in these areas would be obese or have high blood pressure. In fact, people living in the most sprawlin...Scholar: Amount of food eaten more critical than fat content
...ved the eating habits of 341 diners at two Italian restaurants over a succession of nights. The results of his study are being published in the July issue of the International Journal of Obesity. When diners arrived at each restaurant, they were provided with either a dish of 66 grams of olive oil or half a sti...Smoke-free rules may be good news for business
...ociated with adverse economic outcomes in New York restaurants and hotels. Published in the June 2003 issue of th...ssessed changes in taxable sales and employment in restaurants and hotels in five locations in New York state that have implemented smoke-free dining regulations s...Work stress can affect how lower-income families eat
... reported that they served take-out from fast-food restaurants and cereal to children for dinner. They also said they skipped meals, ate on the run and ate too much junk food as ways of coping with demanding jobs. Many workers might not lack information about healthful dietary choices, Devine points out, but per...Dogs on fatty diet may give clues to human disease development
...food adds more of this type of fat. "Increasingly restaurants prepare convenience foods by frying, and more meals are eaten out at fast-food establishments," said Watkins, a nutritional biochemist. "Consequently, the level of oxidized fat in Americans' diets has escalated alarmingly in recent years." The proces...Rising cost of cigarettes may help smokers honor new years resolution to quit
...roval, prohibiting smoking in workplaces, bars and restaurants could save a 1,000 lives a year. Overall, public health advocates and physicians agree that these aggressive state and city anti-tobacco initiatives may provide just the incentive smokers need to resolve to quit once and for all. "Taken together, o...Ceramic hip implants provide alternative for younger patients
...AGO - Indiana resident Luke Pascale runs two pizza restaurants and had worked out three times a week. He also enjoyed long bike rides with his wife, but last year, the pain in his hip became so severe he couldn't stay on a bike for more than five minutes. "I'm very active so the thought of having hip surgery w...Nearness of supermarkets boosts peoples intake of nutritious fruits and vegetables, study reveals
...ets, grocery stores and fast-food and full-service restaurants in the neighborhoods where they lived, she said. Among the findings were that five times more supermarkets were located in census tracts where white participants lived compared to black participants, Morland said. Only 8 percent of the 2,392 black p...Study exposes dangers of snuff for smokers wanting to quit
...ond-hand smoke spreads, and as a growing number of restaurants and other businesses adopt clean-air policies and restrict smoking in their buildings, smoking is becoming increasingly taboo. In turn, tobacco companies--and even some researchers--are promoting snuff and smokeless tobacco as safer alternatives to c...Energy density labels do not encourage overeating
...ains fewer calories, offers food manufacturers and restaurants a way to decrease the fat and calories in their products making them healthier and satisfying." The study is described in the October issue of the journal, Appetite, in a paper, "Does Nutrition Information About the Energy Density of Meals Affect F...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, June 18, 2002
...41 of 71 tabletop hot sauces in 36 popular tourist restaurants in Guadalajara, Mexico, and 10 of 25 sauces from 12 popular Mexican-style, non-chain restaurants in Houston, Texas, were contaminated with E. coli bacteria (Brief Communication, p. 884). Since E. c...... medicine department at UMHS. "However, fast food restaurants continue to pop up across the country and hospital..., and financial viability, and I believe fast food restaurants in hospitals offer patients and their families a sense of comfort," says Fendrick, also associate pr...