Childhood obesity can only be tackled with broad public health interventions
Public health researchers from The University of Manchester have found single dietary interventions are not effective at increasing fruit and vegetable consumption among overweight children and will not halt the global epidemic in childhood obesity.
January 21, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: among-overweight, diet, effective-at-increasing, global-epidemic, halt-the-global, on call diets, single-dietary, will-not
No BPA Ban On Cans And Food Packaging, Says FDA
Bisphenol A, also known as BPA will not be banned from cans and other food/drinks packagings, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced yesterday, saying that those who requested the ban had not provided enough compelling data…
March 31, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: announced-yesterday, bpa, fda, food, known-as-bpa, not-provided, other-food, will-not
Risk of fractures in later life not reduced by high daily calcium intake
If you are already taking moderate amounts of calcium, increasing it will not lower your risk of osteoporosis or fractures when you are older, researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden reported in the BMJ (British Medical Journal).
May 24, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: bones / orthopedics, british-medical, diet, get-older, lose-some, medical, risk, thus-increasing, uppsala, will-not
