Negative food messages make sugary snacks more enticing
Negative messages about unhealthy food can make that food more attractive, whereas positive or balanced messages are more likely to discourage poor choices, researchers say.
January 30, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: balanced-messages, discourage-poor, more-attractive, oncalldiets, positive-or-balanced, unhealthy-food
Marketing Unhealthy Foods To Children Is "Disastrous"
The marketing of unhealthy food to children has been disastrously effective and is only making childhood obesity even more of a problem, says The World Health Organization (WHO).
June 19, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: childhood-obesity, foods-high, marketing-unhealthy, nutrition, only-contributing, only-making, organization, unhealthy-food, world
Junk Food More Appealing When Sleep-Restricted
The sight of unhealthy food during a period of sleep restriction activated reward centers in the brain that were less active when participants had adequate sleep, according to a new study using brain scans to better understand the link between sleep restriction and obesity. Researchers from St…
June 12, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: activated-reward, between-sleep, brain, new-study, nutritional counseling, on call diets, oncalldiets, the-brain, understand-the-link, unhealthy-food, using-brain
Junk Food May Be More Appealing To Tired Brains
A new study that used brain scans of people who had not had enough sleep suggests junk food may be more appealing to tired brains. Scientists found that when normal weight volunteers looked at unhealthy food during a period of sleep restriction, the reward centers in their brains were more active than when they looked at the pictures after having slept regularly…
June 11, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: after-having, brains, junk-food, more-appealing, on call diets, pictures, reward, sleep-suggests, the-pictures, the-reward, their-brains, unhealthy-food
Potatoes Can Reduce Blood Pressure
Just a couple of servings of potato a day can reduce blood pressure in obese or overweight people with high blood pressure, calling into question the lowly spud’s current reputation as a fattening, unhealthy food, according to new research presented at a conference in Denver, Colorado, USA, on Wednesday…
September 1, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: blood-pressure, current-reputation, denver, lowly, lowly-spud, new-research, nutrition, nutrition / diet, obese-or-overweight, oncalldietitian.com, overweight-people, reduce-blood, unhealthy-food, usa