Flawed Study is Encouraging Flawed Study is Encouraging

   Today I read about a menu labeling intervention that took place in 1990.  It involved 4 restaurants within a small geographical area (adj...

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7:23 PM

Fast Food Customers - Walk Ins vs Drive Throughs Fast Food Customers - Walk Ins vs Drive Throughs

   About a year before the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act was amended to include menu labeling, researchers associated with Yale and led by Chr...

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7:17 PM

Odds and Ends Odds and Ends

HPV and Herd Immunity   I believe I've mentioned herd immunity when discussing seasonal flu.  Basically, it means that if enough people ...

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7:43 PM

Prosperity and Weight Gain Prosperity and Weight Gain

   Researchers often make note of the parallel rise in economic prosperity and weight gain.  The percent of people who are overweight increa...

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7:37 PM

Which Risk Matters Most?(repost with new link) Which Risk Matters Most?(repost with new link)

Due to the level of importance this post is being republished today. The topic includes the importance of waist circumference as a marker of...

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7:41 PM

What does your body tell you about that meal? What does your body tell you about that meal?

   It is quite interesting to read articles about diet and health that were written between the 70s and 90s compared to those written in the...

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7:05 PM

Order UP! Order UP!

....because we do not get enough calories or convenience in our every day lives.    A researcher in NC compared the average amount of calori...

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6:57 PM

Heat, Hydration and Exercise Amounts Heat, Hydration and Exercise Amounts

Heat, Hydration and Muscles  This goes into the “learned the hard way” category.  Maybe you can learn from my experience.  As you may recall...

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7:15 PM

Odds and Ends Odds and Ends

Whooping Cough According to the CDC, the US is having its worst whooping cough outbreak in 50 years.  Whooping cough is the common name for ...

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7:20 PM

New Faces in FHE New Faces in FHE

Our new volunteer Bharti Budhiraja teaching our children. Thank you for your effort. We hope you are enjoying. Keep it up :) Neha Tayal b...

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9:58 PM

Diastolic Diastolic

   I had a doctors appointment this week and my blood pressure was assessed.  It was a very healthy, normal 105/70 but it got me to thinking...

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7:37 PM
 
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