New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has been busy burnishing his legacy as a fierce public health advocate. He banned smoking in public places, restricted trans fats in restaurants, created sanitary grading in restaurants, required calorie counts to be posted… Read More ›
Recently, a New York Supreme Court judge struck down the soda ban proposed by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg last fall. I’m on record in the JAMA Forum as being against the ban in the first place. But I… Read More ›
Breast cancer researchers and nutritionists have struggled for years to answer a complex question: is dairy consumption related to breast cancer? Findings released today begin to chip away at the uncertainty. In women already diagnosed with breast cancer, consuming at… Read More ›
Mom’s admonishment to “Eat your veggies” appears to be sound advice, at least with respect to reducing risk of heart disease. Researchers from the University of Oxford in England found that compared with people who eat meat and fish, vegetarians… Read More ›
Two food safety rules proposed today by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) usher in a more proactive stance from the federal government in preventing contaminated food produced by domestic and foreign sources from reaching consumers in the United… Read More ›
Overweight patients with type 2 diabetes are usually told by physicians to modify their diets and increase physical activity in the hope of causing the condition to go into remission. But a study appearing today in JAMA suggests that even… Read More ›
Offering cheese and vegetables may be a winning combination for kids’ snacks, researchers report today in the journal Pediatrics, producing satiety with fewer calories than potato chips. The availability of such high-calorie snacks as potato chips, cookies, and candy has… Read More ›
Using a mobile device to track food consumption and get feedback from a weight loss coach helped patients lose more weight than a traditional weight loss program, according to a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine today. Intensive… Read More ›
Researchers who zeroed in on specific carotenoids—natural pigments that give some fruits and vegetables their yellow, orange, and red hues—found that lycopene had a more pronounced effect than several others they studied in reducing women’s risk of developing breast cancer…. Read More ›
Eating more fruits and vegetables and cutting back on consumption of meat, cheese, sweetened beverages, and desserts are strategies that may help postmenopausal women lose weight and keep it off, according to a study published today in Journal of the… Read More ›
