SpongeBob Square Pants leads to hyperactivity.
2012 was an incredible year. And it would be fun and interesting to point out some of the interesting findings regarding health and nutrition this year.
Continue reading… “Ten surprising and scary health findings of 2012”
Eating fast food will not only make you likely to put on weight but may give you the blues as well.
Eating junk food has a negative effect on mental health, making those who consume it regularly feel depressed, new research has revealed.
Junk food does not cause obesity in middle school students.
Kids who attend schools that sell junk food such as soda and doughnuts do not gain more weight than students who attend schools where that type of food isn’t available, according to a new study of nearly 20,000 middle schoolers.
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People of European origin are more likely to gorge on junk food.
It has been discovered that people of European origin are more likely to have genes which urge them to gorge on fatty foods, beer and wine, than Asians according to scientists at Aberdeen University.
Half of teenage girls are dangerously low in key nutrients.
A diet of pizza, sweets, and sugary drinks is taking a severe toll on the health of young women which is having implications as they get older, nutritionists have discovered.
Certain foods may be addictive.
Seeing a milkshake can activate the same areas of the brain that light up when an addict sees cocaine, US researchers said.
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Junk food lowers an child’s IQ
It’s a research which may anger many busy parents who rely on processed foods to placate kids — eating junk food lowers a child’s IQ.
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Soda taxes have been proposed as a means to induce healthier consumption, and to cut down on costly related diseases like diabetes in the process.
A new study finds only the middle class — not the rich or the poor — are likely to change their behavior with a soda tax. Opponents of so-called soda taxes often argue that they would disproportionately punish low-income people. The poor buy more pop than the rich, who you’d more likely find in line at a fresh-fruit smoothie bar than in the carbonated beverage aisle at the grocery store, the thinking goes.
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Professor Haub – who lost 27lb – teaches human nutrition at Kansas State University in the U.S.
A professor who went on a ten-week diet based on cream cakes, snacks, sugary cereals and biscuits says he lost nearly two stone. Mark Haub said that on the ‘convenience store diet’ his ‘bad’ cholesterol also dropped by 20 per cent and his level of triglycerides, a form of fat, by 39 per cent.
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40% of calories consumed by kids comes from junk food.
It’s no wonder that kids are blowing up like balloons more every year. According to Kids Health, the percentage of overweight children in the United States is growing at an alarming rate–one out of three kids are now considered overweight or obese. And even worse, a new study released by the National Cancer Institute and reported on Civil Eats found that nearly 40 percent of calories consumed by children ages 2 to 18 were empty calories, the unhealthiest kind of calories, derived from junk food.
One year’s worth of junk food consumed by children in the UK.
This shocking picture, with its piles of oven chips, mini rolls and tubs of ice cream, represents just how much junk food one child in the UK consumes in a year. It is perhaps unsurprising then that today’s children have been labeled the ‘junk food generation’, with a third of youngsters aged five to 13 already considered obese.
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