| Poverty Drains Nutrition From Family Diet
THURSDAY, Feb. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Members of poor households in which it is consistently hard to afford enough high-quality food end up eating nutritionally risky diets, Canadian researchers reveal. The new study is the first to show that food insecurity directly translates into poor nutrition. It also suggests that in such homes, adults and teens, rather than very young children, are the most likely to be subsisting on diets low in vitamins, minerals, fruits, vegetables, grains and meat. "Over the long term, [food insecurity] could be expected to precipitate and complicate diet-related chronic diseases, such as diabetes and heart disease," cautioned study co-author, Sharon Kirkpatrick, a doctoral candidate in the department of nutritional sciences at the University of Toronto.
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Lower-income Neighborhoods Associated With Higher Obesity Rates
ScienceDaily (Feb. 10, 2008) Obesity prevalence has increased significantly among adults and children in the U.S. over the last two decades. A new study appearing in the journal Nutrition Reviews reveals that characteristics of neighborhoods, including the area’s income level, the built environment, and access to healthy food, contribute to the continuing obesity epidemic. .
In Defence of Food by Michael Pollan
Her parents wouldn't recognise the foods we put on the table, except maybe the butter, which is back. Today in America, as in much of the western world, the culture of food is changing more than once a generation, which is historically unprecedented - and dizzying. What is driving such relentless change? One force is a multibillion-dollar food-marketing machine that thrives on change for its own sake. Another is the constantly shifting ground of nutrition science that, depending on your point of view, is advancing the frontiers of our knowledge about diet and health or just changing its mind a lot because it knows much less than it cares to admit. Part of what drove my grandparents' food culture from the dinner table was official scientific opinion, which, beginning in the 1960s, decided that animal fat was a deadly substance.
Nutrition pros help find the grains of truth amid the hype about what ...
The worst thing you can do is say, 'I have 10 top foods, and that's all I'm going to eat.' " I guess that rules out the Special K diet I was going to start tomorrow. The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nonprofit group in Washington, D.C., that advocates good nutrition and sound science and blew the whistle on trans fats and other dietary disasters, recommends adding sweet potatoes, grape tomatoes, broccoli, citrus fruits, butternut squash, spinach, kale, skim or 1 percent milk, wild salmon, brown rice and whole-grain rye crackers to your diet. But what about all those buzz words, such as omega-3 fatty acids, antioxidants, whole grains and probiotic cultures that we've been hearing so much about? You know, the ones that are supposed to make you live forever, or something like that.
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FORT LEE, N.J., Feb. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- On Track Innovations Ltd. (OTI) , a global leader in contactless microprocessor-based smart card solutions for homeland security, payments, petroleum payments and other applications, today announced that it will be presenting at the ROTH Capital Partners 20th Annual Growth Stock Conference on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 at 8:00am Pacific Time. The conference will be held at the Ritz Carlton Laguna Niguel Hotel in Dana Point, CA. To schedule one-on-one meetings with management please contact Roth Capital Partners or visit the conference website at http://rothconference.com/. On Track Innovations Ltd. (OTI) is a leading contactless smart card solutions provider. Applications developed by OTI include product solutions for: 1.
Armaan Ebrahim is all joy after winning the Round 6 of
Armaan Ebrahim from Chennai overcame extreme conditions to take the chequered flag in the 28 lap Grand Race in Rd 6 of the Formula Renault V6 Asia Championship in Sentul, Indonesia. The warm up session also did not go well for Armaan as the handling problems persisted. However Armaan's engineer, Patrick Roberts and his team put their heads down and made some changes to the car's suspension, giving Armaan the confidence that the car will be good for the race. Starting 2nd on the grid, based on his 2nd place in sprint race, Armaan made a superb start and shot past pole sitter Aaron Lim into the 1st corner. Three laps later, James Winslow from Britain passed Aaron Lim and was matching Armaan's lap times every lap.
Excerpts from editorials in Florida newspapers
The elderly man discovered in a DeLand nursing home with an infected breathing tube and maggots in his eyes. The 92-year-old man who leaped to his death from his Daytona Beach condominium, distraught over his wife's failing health. The children charged with beating a veteran, now homeless. Less familiar but more common are the daily struggles that don't make headlines. The Volusia Council on Aging has a waiting list of seniors needing vital services like housekeeping and grocery shopping. Flagler County has capped its door-to-door bus service because it can't afford to service any more riders. A lack of affordable home health services might be sending local seniors into nursing facilities when they could remain in their homes - a problem that also affects people with disabilities who are under the age of 65.
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