Patients with mental illness less likely to receive diet, exercise advice

Health care providers may miss opportunities to counsel high-risk patientsMore than half of patients with symptoms of mental illness – and nearly one-third of those who also had diabetes – said…

Children’s Food Choices Seem To Be Affected By Direct Advertising And Parental Influence

Directly advertising food items to children worries many parents and health care providers, and the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Psychological Association have expressed concern about the negative impact of advertising on children’s healthy food choices…