A few posts ago - the one titled Labels Everywhere - I began a discussion of front of pack labeling of which I am a big fan. Today I was e...
Estimating Calories
Burton, S., Creyer, E. H., Kees, J., & Huggins, K. (2006). Attacking the obesity epidemic: the potential health benefits of providing nu...
Avoid Enticement and other interesting dietary snipets
I want to share just a few bits of information from the mounds of articles and documents I have explored in the past few days. The first is ...
Burning Less and Consuming More
That is really the bottom line from the research that came out this week and several studies published last year. With regard to work time p...
In Days to Come
Hello all. I located the research study that was alluded to in the news story I linked you to last night. This regards trends in occupatio...
Labels Everywhere
The Affordable Care Act of 2010 did mandate nationwide menu and vending machine labeling for certain retailers. Namely those with more tha...
Three Days Notice
That is right! This Friday is protect your skin day. This event is supported by the Environmental Protection Agency's Sun Wise program...
THANK YOU...FOR YOUR HELPING HAND
We are happy to announce that by the end of 2010, we reached 30,000 beneficiaries. They were mainly women and children-needy and abandoned....
IWQOL-Lite
Post is in reference to: Development of a Brief Measure to Assess Quality of Life in Obesity. BY -Ronette L. Kolotkin, Ross D. Crosby, Karl ...
Odds and Ends
Garbage - What was once a physically demanding job is now automated it seems. This week I watched a garbage truck picking up and dumping th...
20 to 40 - Growing and Being Well
From the World Health Organization comes the most commonly referenced definition of health by public health educators, promoters and scienti...
5 Months to Plan that Walk
I am delighted to share this link with you. It is about the International Walk to School Day that will take place in October. The website...
Triple Threat
I was reading a commentary from 2009 written by the Senior VP of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He said something important that I want...
From those who know
In a recent post I clarified the real risk of skin cancer but the low comparative risk of dying from it as compared to other cancers. That ...
a Quick Apology Allergy Sufferers
I listened to a report on NBC Nightly News and I thought of my blog post about people who never open windows. At least two people commented...
Odds and Ends
Smile Plate Lunch - A research study in Texas will involve a computerized food analysis of what children eat at school. A special camera ...
Fountain of Youth - Exercise and Work
One of the newsletters that purposefully reaches my inbox is from Medscape and is more clinical than some others. Usually I go to the public...
Take the Combo - but know the difference
Prentice, A., & Jebb, S. (2004). Energy intake/physical activity interactions in the homeostasis of body weight regulation. Nutrition Re...
METS aren't just a baseball team -
To be honest, my post about metabolic equivalents or METs should wait until tomorrow. I had what I wanted to say in my mind last night, but...
at Every Age - And then some
I didn't even bother getting the suitcase from the trunk when I reached my apartment at lunchtime today (after leaving Florida at 7 this...
In the Company of Others
In thinking of the last few days, I realize that as much as some of us enjoy sharing in the pleasures of decadent gourmet and sometimes just...
odds and ends
Simply Fit : Earlier this week I was watching TV with my Mother and a commercial from the IHOP restaurant chain aired. The ad was for a Si...
Food Pushing in the Family
The carry over from yesterday will have to wait one more day. I told my family that they were blog material for tonight and I am sticking t...
Both Sides of the Equation
I had several things come to my attention today through various sources; email, journal articles and an IHOPS commercial that warrant blog a...