Strong governmental leadership needed to tackle obesity epidemic
...and a global code to promote only healthy food and drink to children. The Lancet comments: "The challenge is clear. Strong governmental leadership is essential to drive the necessary policy changes forwards-- with legislation introduced within 2 years of voluntary codes failing--in partnerships that cross ...Fraternity/sorority members who get drunk weekly at higher risk of injuries
... sororities have been shown in previous studies to drink more alcohol than other students, O'Brien said. The overall goal of the $4.1 million Study to Prevent Alcohol-Related Consequences (SPARC) is to reduce the availability of alcohol to students and to help change campus cultures that promote drinking. ...Alcohol consumption habits may threaten GI health
...ohol response. The time to empty half of the diet drink from the stomach was 21 minutes, compared to regular drinks which took 36 minutes for the same degree of emptying. Peak blood alcohol concentrations were substantially greater with diet drinks at an average of 0.05 percent, while regular drinks meas...Study: Super-sizing your food takes a hidden toll on your pocketbook
MADISON -- From a soft drink in a mega-size cup to a jumbo order of fries, many fast food restaurants let you upsize your meal for pennies -- seemingly a great value. But there's a hidden cost to those larger portions, even beyond the health consequences of gaining weight. A te......Female students were far less likely than males to drink at such extreme levels. Binge drinking consumin...nsiderable number of students, particularly males, drink well beyond the "standard" binge-drinking threshold. Results are published in the June issue of Al...Stress, alcoholics, and post-traumatic stress disorder
...gical responses to stress and were more likely to drink in the month following the test. Post-traumati...ological stress response were also more likely to drink over the next month compared to all of the other alcohol-only patients tested." In other words, he...One-third of adults with diabetes still don't know they have it
...(140 to 199 mg/dL) 2 hours after drinking a sugary drink in an oral glucose tolerance test but not high enough to be diagnostic of diabetes. In the current study, researchers did not assess the prevalence of IGT because an oral glucose tolerance test was not a part of the survey. People with pre-diabet...Moderate alcohol intake associated with better mental function in older women
...g more than 7,000 older women found that those who drink a moderate amount of alcohol have slightly higher ...dies suggesting that for older women who choose to drink and are not restricted from drinking for medical reasons moderate alcohol intake is not harmful fo...Master planners in brain may coordinate other areas' roles in cognitive tasks
...active. "If you give them a cup of coffee, they'll drink it, but they'd never ask for a cup of coffee," Petersen explains. "If you ask them how they are, they'll tell you, 'I'm fine,' but they won't tell you a story." "They seem to have problems voluntarily entering a task state," Dosenbach says. "They can...Define diabetes differently, says U-M expert in speech for national award
...ar levels after a person consumes a special sugary drink are more accurate, and may be better as the definitive diagnostic tool for diabetes, even though they are more expensive and complex to perform. Such tests can show which individuals have impaired glucose tolerance, or IGT -- an inability to process ...Different options produce similar results
...t you should know before whitening: Do not eat or drink anything after whitening that might cause a stain (coffee, tea, etc.). Existing crowns or fillings will not respond to the whitening agent. Strips do not whiten entire arches. They only cover the front teeth. Do not smoke or chew tobacco after usi...Coffee drinking associated with lower risk for alcohol-related liver disease
...er levels than those who drank alcohol but did not drink coffee, with the strongest link among the heaviest drinkers. Tea drinking was not related to reduced risk in the study, suggesting that it is not caffeine that is responsible for the relationship between coffee and reduced cirrhosis risk. "Previous ...Risk for skin lesions increases with low-dose exposure to arsenic in drinking water
... for example, in the United States, people usually drink water from multiple sources. However, up until now even assessments at the individual level were extremely difficult because exposures measurements were from years past or the Bangladeshi population drank water from multiple sources. Another obvious...Warm blanket lessens chances of false-positives in cancer scans
...man says. "Now we can give them a checklist: Don't drink coffee, take it easy and try to stay warm to ensure the most accurate scan."...Cherry juice reduces muscle pain induced by exercise
...authors. Fourteen volunteers were asked to either drink fresh cherry juice blended with commercial apple j...efore exercise and for four days afterwards, or to drink a dummy mixture containing no cherry juice. The blend comprised 12 oz of liquid, equivalent to the...Smoking, eating and thinking: New research on the brain, hormones, and behavior
...parts, both groups seemed to like the fat-enhanced drink just the same. Oxytocin is a hormone that plays a role in physical and emotional responses, induces labor, encourages maternal behavior and promotes positive relationship interactions. This work establishes a new role for oxytocin in influencing food...Cherry juice may prevent muscle damage pain
...mans." The study participants were asked to either drink a bottle of the cherry juice blend twice a day for...efore exercise and for four days afterwards, or to drink a placebo juice containing no cherries. The 12-ounce bottle of juice contained the liquid equivalent...U of M research links coffee to lower diabetes risk
...f developing type 2 diabetes than women who do not drink coffee. Researchers examined coffee intake and diabetes risk in 28,812 postmenopausal women who did not have type 2 diabetes or cardiovascular disease as part of the Iowa Women's Health Study (1986-1997). Over the 11-year period, 1,418 women repor...U of M study examines kidney stone prevention in astronauts
...idney stones. Additionally, many astronauts do not drink enough water while in space, so their urine output is lower, and the food they consume is higher in sodium, which also increases the risk for kidney stone development. "In combination with hydration therapy, exercise in a machine that simulates gravi...Chocolate, wine, spicy foods may be OK for heartburn, Stanford study finds
...void it, or you could take a medication before you drink some red wine,'" she said. According to the ACG, more than 60 million Americans experience heartburn at least once a month and estimates are that more than 15 million suffer from it daily. For the great majority of those sufferers, Gerson's recent...