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Be Good To Your Heart

Your beating heart is a fist-sized pumping system with four valves and four chambers. Various blood vessels carry blood to and from the heart. It circulates blood to every cell in your body as it pumps an average of 100,000 times per day. The pumping action carries oxygen and nutrients that we need to stay
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Food Diaries Can Promote Weight Loss

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Keeping a food diary takes a little discipline but can be an eye-opening experience. People often eat much more than they realize. All you need is a piece of paper and a pen or pencil. Then you write down everything you eat, whether it includes M&M’s nabbed from a candy dish, crackers in front of
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Fast-Food Restaurants Target U.S. Kids, Study Shows

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Fast-food restaurants are stepping up efforts to market unhealthy food products to children and toddlers, according to a study by Yale University. It said efforts by the industry to regulate itself have failed and urged government to declare children a protected group and stop marketing efforts that are fuelling child obesity. “What we found in
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New Atkins Diet Book Released

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Other diets come and go, but Atkins it seems, just takes time off. The popular but controversial low-carb diet is attempting a comeback, this time as an easier to swallow and follow version. The latest revision is contained in The New Atkins for a New You published in March by three American physicians. Based on
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Farming Reform Needed To End Hunger Without Obesity

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Agriculture needs revolutionary change to confront threats such as global warming and end hunger in developing nations without adding to the ranks of the obese, an international study shows. The report says South Asia and Africa were “battlegrounds for poverty reduction” as the world population rose to a peak in 2050. Prospects for quick advances
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Make Mealtime Family Time For A Healthy Heart

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Heart and Stroke Foundat ion of Manitoba (HSFM) nutrition managers are encouraging Manitobans to eat together as a family as part of a heart-healthy lifestyle. Healthy eating plays a vital role in the prevention of heart disease and stroke. Studies show that children who sit down to eat dinner with their families tend to eat
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Does Eating Comfort Food Reduce Stress?

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Some people consider a casserole as “comfort food.” Brian Wansink and associates at Cornell University have defined comfort foods as those foods “whose consumption evokes a psychologically comfortable and pleasurable state for a person.” What’s your comfort food? Some may seek comfort in the familiarity of their favourite childhood casserole. Others may seek out cake,
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TV May Prompt Overeating

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Researchers have shown that people who watch TV for two or more hours per day are more likely to be overweight. Sitting on a couch does not burn a lot of calories. When your mind is preoccupied, you may be munching more than you realize, too. If part of your plan for the new year
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U. S. Agencies Want To Ban Some Kid Food Ads

WASHINGTON/REUTERS In a bid to tackle rising youth obesity, U. S. companies would be prohibited from advertising to children foods that contain large amounts of sugar or salt, or even low levels of trans fats, under a proposal released Dec. 15 by a working group from several U. S. agencies. The working group made up
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More Fruit, Fewer Calories Urged For U. S. School Lunch

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“This will be a very wise investment in children’s health.” – VIRGINIA STALLINGS U. S. children should get more fruits, vegetables and whole grains in their school meals even though this will push up costs, and calories should be limited, a panel recommended to the federal government Oct. 20. As obesity among adolescents continues to

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