Test Shows Subconscious ‘Stop Signs’ Can Help Control Overeating
Once you pop the top of a tube of potato chips, it can be hard to stop munching its contents. But Cornell University researchers may have found a novel way to help: edible serving-size markers that act as subconscious stop signs…
July 26, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: cornell, cornell-university, edible-serving-size, novel-way, nutrition / diet, on call diets, oncalldiets, potato-chips, stop-munching, the-top
Study Suggests Obesity Is Due To Increased Food Consumption, Not Decreased Energy Expenditure
Modern lifestyles are generally quite different from those of our hunter-gatherer ancestors, a fact that some claim as the cause of the current rise in global obesity, but new results published in the open access journal PLoS ONE find that there is no difference between the energy expenditure of modern hunter-gatherers and Westerners, casting doubt on this theory…
July 26, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: casting-doubt, current, energy, generally-quite, global-obesity, hunter, nutritional counseling, oncalldiets, open, some-claim, the-cause, the-energy, theory, westerners
When Sodium Leaves The Body, It Takes Calcium Along With It, Potentially Depleting Calcium Stores In The Body
The scientific community has always wanted to know why people who eat high-salt diets are prone to developing medical problems such as kidney stones and osteoporosis. Medical researchers at the University of Alberta may have solved this puzzle through their work with animal lab models and cells…
July 26, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diet, eat-high-salt, kidney-stones, puzzle, such-as-kidney, their-work, university, work
