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Adopt a heart healthy diet

Focus on your heart health and adopt a heart healthy diet and eating habits to lead a healthy lifestyle When eating for your heart health, it's important to focus on foods you like and will eat regularly. These heart-healthy foods [...]

Posted On : Feb, 13 2012 | Comments : 0

Diet, dental visits sustain child’s dental health

The Cayuga County Health Department, Cayuga Community Health Network, East Hill Family Medical and Genesee Elementary School have teamed up to offer the Brush to Crush Cavities program to all students in grade kindergarten through six at [...]

Posted On : Feb, 07 2012 | Comments : 0

High fibre diets don't protect gut health

High fibre diets, surprisingly, may not protect gut health, but they do heighten your chances of developing diverticulosis. The condition is characterised by small bulging pouches forming on the inner lining of large intestine, trappin [...]

Posted On : Jan, 24 2012 | Comments : 0

Diet patterns linked with brain health

Eating a diet rich in certain vitamins and omega-3 fatty acids and low in trans fats may be best for brain health, new research suggests. Older people who ate this way had less of the brain shrinkage linked with Alzheimer's disease an [...]

Posted On : Dec, 30 2011 | Comments : 0

Maintaining Healthy Dietary Habits Has Benefits Beyond Weigh...

Improvements to health remain even if weight is regained after long-term healthy dietary interventions, say researchers. Long-term healthy dietary interventions frequently induce a rapid weight decline, mainly in the first four to six mon [...]

Posted On : Dec, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

Healthy diet needed to foil 'tsunami of diseases'

A tsunami of chronic diseases will hit the Australian public health system if the population does not radically improve their diet, new research shows. Revised Australian Dietary Guidelines, issued for public comment today, suggest 35per [...]

Posted On : Dec, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Health staff suffer poor diet, high stress

Most ACT Health Directorate workers are overweight or obese, don't eat enough vegetables and many suffer from psychological distress, a survey has found. But ACT Health staff are still generally healthier than other ACT workers and th [...]

Posted On : Dec, 03 2011 | Comments : 0

'Miracle' cure for diabetes? Simple healthy eating: Scientis...

As obesity levels soar, it is fast emerging as one of the biggest priorities for the health profession. Type 2 diabetes has seen a worrying rise in the UK, thought to be driven by junk food diets and a lack of exercise. But scientists hav [...]

Posted On : Nov, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

Healthier Diet Is One Big Home-Cooking Driver

Although economizing continues to be a core driver behind increased amounts of home cooking, it’s definitely not the only reason. In fact, half (51%) of home cooks cite the desire for a healthier diet as an important motivation, say [...]

Posted On : Nov, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

Go healthy with raw food diet

You may owe some of your health issues to processed food. Raw food chef, Lisa Pitman, talks about eating without heating and how it changed her life Do you feel uneasy after eating certain kinds of food? Anything oily sparks acidity, m [...]

Posted On : Nov, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Frequent snacking linked to healthier diet

People who munch on snacks between meals tend to have healthier diets than those who stick to eating only at regular mealtimes, a new study finds. The results showed people who snacked more frequently had higher amounts of fruit, whole gr [...]

Posted On : Nov, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

Healthy diet and moderate exercise can improve fatherhood ch...

New studies found that sperm quality was higher among men who ate a typical Mediterranean diet - more fresh fish, fruit and vegetables - and less junk food or red meat. It was also improved among those who took brisk walks, compared with [...]

Posted On : Oct, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Healthy Diet May Cut Heart Risk From 'Bad' Genes

We know that eating a very healthy diet appears to make heart disease less likely, but now that even goes for people whose genes put them at a higher than normal risk of heart trouble. "A diet high in fruits and vegetables appears [...]

Posted On : Oct, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Gluten-free diets are no health fad

A few years ago, a friend baked me gluten-free muffins. “I know you are into healthier foods, so I thought you might like these,” she said. “Gluten?!” I replied, laughing. Sure, I had cut out most processed foods a [...]