Study reveals depression to be a key link between intimate partner violence and food insecurity
Women who experience physical, mental or sexual abuse at the hands of their partners have an increased likelihood of being food insecure. That’s according to a new study out of the University of Houston Texas Obesity Research Center (TORC), which may prove valuable to those creating interventions for those populations…
October 29, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: being-food, hands, mental-or-sexual, nutritional counseling, obesity-research, partners, prove-valuable, sexual-abuse, their-partners, university
Peer pressure likely influences food choices at restaurants
If you want to eat healthier when dining out, research recommends surrounding yourself with friends who make healthy food choices. A University of Illinois study showed that when groups of people eat together at a restaurant at which they must state their food choice aloud, they tend to select items from the same menu categories…
October 29, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diet, eat-healthier, food, from-the-same, make-healthy, must-state, nutritional counseling, people-eat, select-items, university
