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Diabetes curriculum may help empower students to make healthy choices

For Lola McPherren, learning about diabetes is personal. The Juanita High School ninth-grader had a grandfather with diabetes. She recalled that he gave himself a shot of insulin before a meal, and that he also never really changed his diet to help control the disease. He died in February.

25 Nov 2019

Flavors attract both youth and adults to use e-cigarettes

As more and more youth use electronic cigarettes, combined with research showing the health consequences of vaping - including nicotine addiction - researchers at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill found that non-menthol flavors attract youth and adults to use e-cigarettes and that the use of flavored e-cigarettes contributes to multiple pathways linked to higher e-cigarette use among youth.

24 Oct 2019

Study finds why people crave more high-fat foods after a sleepless night

When you're sleep deprived, you tend to reach for doughnuts, fries and pizza. A new Northwestern Medicine study has figured out why you crave more calorie-dense, high-fat foods after a sleepless night -- and how to help thwart those unhealthy choices.

9 Oct 2019

Lack of sleep increases junk food cravings via nose-brain interactions

After a night without sleep, the hand reaches out almost automatically for anything rich, sweet and unhealthy – a change in food choice which could increase the body weight if practiced consistently over a significant period of time

9 Oct 2019

Reducing acrylamide in fried and baked snacks

In 2002, the discovery of acrylamide in certain snacks rattled consumers and the food industry. Acrylamide, a probable human carcinogen, forms by a chemical reaction during baking or frying.

11 Sep 2019

Starving seniors: How America fails to feed its aging

Army veteran Eugene Milligan is 75 years old and blind. He uses a wheelchair since losing half his right leg to diabetes and gets dialysis for kidney failure.

3 Sep 2019

Mysterious vaping lung injuries may have flown under regulatory radar

It was the arrival of the second man in his early 20s gasping for air that alarmed Dr. Dixie Harris. Young patients rarely get so sick, so fast, with a severe lung illness, and this was her second case in a matter of days.

27 Aug 2019

Coming out about mental health on social media

Susanna Harris was sitting in her lab class for her graduate program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill when she received an email that told her she had failed what she describes as "the most important exam in grad school," the doctoral qualifying exam. She took the rest of the day off, went home and baked cookies.

26 Aug 2019

Effects of edible marijuana studied in mice

Researchers have studied the effects of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol or THC in food albeit in mice. THC is the main component that causes the psychological features seen with use of marijuana. Laboratory mice were given dough containing THC and the effects of the concoction were studied on them. This was an attempt to see similar effects in humans after consuming marijuana laced edibles.

13 Aug 2019

New study looks at health effects of eating marijuana

Researchers have conducted a study in which mice voluntarily ate a dough containing THC, the primary psychoactive component in marijuana.

10 Aug 2019

Cutting around 300 calories a day protects the heart even in svelte adults

New data from a two-year Duke Health trial suggests when it comes to cutting your risk for killer ailments such as diabetes and heart disease, there's always room for improvement.

12 Jul 2019

'Traffic light' food labels associated with reduction in calories purchased by hospital employees

A new study by Massachusetts General Hospital investigators released today in JAMA Network Open, a publication of the Journal of the American Medical Association, showed that labeling food choices in a hospital cafeteria with simple "traffic-light" symbols indicating their relative health value was associated with a reduction in calories purchased by employees, and that the dietary changes were sustained over two years.

11 Jul 2019

Promising strategies to control bad food choices

What's the best way to prevent children from overloading on bad food choices? Flinders University researchers have found that promoting substitution is the answer to turn around children's excessive consumption of nutrient-poor foods and beverages – resulting in nutritional benefits that are even better than reducing intake of these discretionary food and drink choices.

24 Jun 2019

FDA's added sugar label could have substantial health and cost-saving benefits

A label showing added sugars content on all packaged foods and sugary drinks could have substantial health and cost-saving benefits in the United States over the next 20 years, according to a new study published in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation.

15 Apr 2019

Replacing red meat with healthy plant proteins decreases in cardiovascular disease risk factors

Diets that replaced red meat with healthy plant proteins led to decreases in risk factors for cardiovascular disease, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Purdue University.

10 Apr 2019

Study finds link between recreational marijuana legalization and increase in junk food purchase

It's an infamous pop culture portrayal. After smoking marijuana, the main characters in the movie go on an epic junk-food binge, consuming mass quantities of chips, cookies, and whatever other high-calorie, salt-or-sugar-laden snacks they can get.

28 Feb 2019

UCLA psychology professor offers tips for successful aging

Successful aging can be the norm, says UCLA psychology professor Alan Castel in his new book, "Better with Age: The Psychology of Successful Aging". Castel sees many inspiring role models of aging. French Impressionist Claude Monet, he notes, began his beloved water lily paintings at age 73.

2 Nov 2018

Using 2D coded tubes to create a sustainable solution for food supply

Scientists at JUST are building a highly advanced food system by exploring 300,000+ species of plants for their potential to improve the things that we eat.

From Micronic 26 Oct 2018

Discovery of gene mutation could offer benefit for people suffering from diabetes, heart disease, obesity

Researchers say they have discovered a gene mutation that slows the metabolism of sugar in the gut, giving people who have the mutation a distinct advantage over those who do not.

10 Oct 2018

Research uncovers detrimental consequences of sleep deprivation

Researchers at Michigan State University conducted the largest experimentally controlled study on sleep deprivation to date, revealing just how detrimental operating without sleep can be in everything from bakers adding too much salt to cookies to surgeons botching surgeries.

3 Oct 2018