Recent Health and Wellness Headlines: - Your Child's Stunted! Could Nutrition Be The Cause? - Balita News

Here's a round up of some recent news stories on nutrition, health, wellness, exercise and all the rest. There's a lot out there! -

Your Child's Stunted! Could Nutrition Be The Cause? - Balita News
KUALA LUMPUR, May 7 In 1963, Professor (now Royal Professor) Ungku Aziz conducted a study on Malay poverty in the rural areas. The outcome showed that poverty was a major factor that made the Malay children to be left behind in education

"Traffic light" system helps spot healthy foods - Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - As a food labeling system, a color-coded "traffic light" system is superior to percentage daily intake systems in helping consumers identify healthy foods, according to new study findings. "We found that shoppers who used

Hy-Vee Debuts 'Better-for-You' Eating Right(TM) Line to Shelves - Earthtimes
Available at Hy-Vee Area Stores, Fast Growing Health and Wellness Brand Offers Broad Range of Foods Tailored to Shoppers' Specific Health Needs DES MOINES, Iowa , May 7 /PRNewswire/ — Hy-Vee, an employee-owned corporation operating 225 retail stores

Consumers more likely to identify healthy food using traffic light - PhysOrg
Consumers are five times more likely to identify healthy food when they see colour-coded traffic light nutrition labels than when labels present the information numerically by showing what percentage of the recommended daily nutrient intake each

Traffic Signals Could Improve Food Labels - 6 News WRTV
Putting color-coded information on food labels instead of just percentages of recommended daily intake helps people choose healthy food, researchers in Australia said. Bridget Kelly, a nutritionist at the Cancer Council in Australia, tested four

Study: N.C. has second-highest rate of children at risk of hunger - Star News Online
That s more than 17 percent of children who could suffer cognitive and developmental damage if they are not properly fed. The not-for-profit advocacy group Feeding America based its findings on 2005-2007 data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the

New Diet and Exercise Guidelines for Prostate Health Published by - Genetic Engineering News
The latest science-based guidelines on nutrition and exercise as they relate to prostate health and cancer prevention are now available in a new publication from The Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF). The guide, Nutrition, Exercise and Prostate Cancer

10 Things Your Nutritionist Won't Tell You - Smart Money
With the economy in distress and medical expenses edging higher, more people are turning to nutritionists for help with everything from making healthy meals for less to shedding pounds and treating diabetes. But the industry was already growing

Schools see strict rules on nutrition - Ottumwa Courier
OTTUMWA Beginning with the 2010-11 school year, students in schools across Iowa will see mandatory CPR classes, a revised physical fitness standard and a complete lack of French fries. Though the rules are newly handed down from the Iowa

Nutrition Run moved to May - Abbotsford News
The sixth annual Nutrition Run or Walk is coming up, and registration is now open. Noy Khounviseth, nutrition education for Seabird Island, says the event saw about 200 people last year. She is hoping for another successful run/walk this year, on May