Parents' depression can weigh on children
...the behaviors a parent models affect the lifestyle choices a child makes, too. When parents are struggling, they may have less energy and not be able to provide the emotional support an overweight child needs or help organize play dates and exercise activities, Janicke said. Looking at how parents are do...Young children's taste preferences may be influenced by fast-food branding
... healthful taste preferences and food and beverage choices in young children. Future research might examine the effects of less recognizable brands or contrast different brands and packaging with variable levels of recognition and natural exposure, they conclude....Old McDonald's has a hold on kids' taste buds, Stanford/Packard study finds
... their advertising messages to promoting healthier choices for children. "I have tremendous trust that the private sector will find a way to offer better products and still make a profit," said Robinson, "but we've seen a lot of promises go by the wayside over the years. No one is going to propose we tota...It's time to look at health risks in a new light, authors say
...plete picture. They discovered that health-related choices that sometimes sound straightforward and obvious are often much more uncertain and controversial when the risk statistics are viewed in a different way. Ive been involved in human health and environmental risk assessment for more than 30 years, Rif...Millennium development goals: Are we on track?
...preventing malnutrition by enhancing behaviors and choices that lead to improved nutrition throughout the lifecycle. Poverty and hunger are multidimensional problems requiring multidimensional solutions. To address the multidimensional nature of these problems, the first MDG addresses five distinct goals...Paying taxes, according to the brain, can bring satisfaction
... bank through mandatory taxation, and as they made choices about whether to give more money voluntarily or keep it for themselves. The participants lay on their backs in the fMRI scanner for an hour-long session and viewed the financial transfers on a computer screen. The scanner used a super-cooled magnet...New nutritional research: College students face obesity, high blood pressure, metabolic syndrome
... that most college students are making independent choices about food and activity for the first time in their lives. It was a real wake-up call, says Heather Carmichael, a UNH senior and former Nutrition in Health & Well Being student. I was a vegan and I thought my diet was superb, but no. I wasnt getti...Avian influenza on people's minds
...et have the information they need to make informed choices about purchasing, preparing, and consuming poultry products, should avian influenza emerge in the United States. Hallman points out that U.S. farming methods for raising poultry drastically reduce the risk of an outbreak of avian influenza within ...Research probes seniors' plans for end-of-life care
...arried out. But the true effectiveness of people's choices has yet to be examined. "It's possible that bad planning is worse than no planning," says Carr. "Just because you name someone to make decisions for you doesn't mean they can do a good job, and it doesn't mean they have any clue what your preferenc...Benefits of school-based fitness programs fade after summer
... to influence students opportunities for healthful choices has been a focus of school-based health promotion research, including nutrition programs and physical education, the authors write. However, when interventions occur in a school-based setting, and are confined to the school year, an inherent question...Second SPORT study shows surgery advantage for spinal stenosis and slipped vertebra
...information that would allow them to make informed choices when faced with a decision of how to treat their back condition," said lead author Dr. James N. Weinstein, professor and chair of orthopaedics at Dartmouth Medical School and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Although back surgeries are among th...New system for reporting toxicity burden of cancer treatment
...eatment options. Patients have a growing number or choices in cancer treatment, and many want to be able to choose based on relative safety and quality of life, as well as effectiveness. TAME is a new metric that simplifies direct comparison of a large volume of very complex safety data. The authors also b...Possible new breast cancer gene
...nberg. "These families arent able to make informed choices about screening and treatment, prophylactic or otherwise, the way the BRCA families can." Researchers from multiple labs, including Penn and those led by co-senior author David M. Livingston at Dana-Farber, are finding that many of these non-BRCA f...Binge drinking leads to neurocognitive deficits among college students
...am and corresponding author for the study. These choices tend to reflect more serious problems with executive functioning, added Jenny Larkins, a graduate student in clinical psychology at the University of Missouri. "Executive functioning involves skills such as planning for the future, abstract reasonin...Women with breast cancer do not get potentially life-saving information, survey reveals
... sufficient information to make informed treatment choices that could affect their long-term outcome. Alth...women were not even told about available treatment choices to reduce their risk of recurrence." A woman's risk of breast cancer recurrence is a critical fac...Sling surgery is more effective than Burch for bladder control in women
...continence and their doctors to make more-informed choices based on clear benefits, risks and personal preferences." The Stress Incontinence Surgical Treatment Efficacy Trial (SISTEr) found that significantly more women with a sling made from the patient's own tissue and placed around the urethra for addit...A drug's brand name skews patient treatment choices
...strong influence that drug names have on treatment choices emerged from a study undertaken by Dr. Anne Holbrook and McMaster colleagues who wanted to see if certain features of a decision aid i.e., format and graphic presentation of data on benefits and harms of treatment options make a difference. They de...Study: Chain-owned nursing homes hurt by too much standardization
...ify what is a good or bad nursing home when making choices about where to place a loved one," said Jane Banaszak-Holl, corresponding author on the study. "Right now, we have an easier time distinguishing the quality in McDonalds versus Boston Market than we have distinguishing how, for example, a Sun-owned n...Asthma study shows patients have more options to control disease
...mild, persistent asthma because it gives them more choices about how to manage their disease," said Stephen P. Peters, M.D., Ph.D., lead author and a professor of pediatrics, internal medicine-pulmonary and associate director of the Center for Human Genomics. The study, involving 500 children and adults wi...Aspirin use during pregnancy could reduce risk of pre-eclampsia
...t risk of pre-eclampsia to help them make informed choices about their antenatal care." In an accompanying comment, Professor James Roberts and Dr Janet Catov, Magee-Women's Research Institute and Departments of Obstetrics Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences and Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pe...