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! -
Brought to book: the poo lady's PhD
Guardian Unlimited - Spiritual Nutrition and the Rainbow Diet. Some of it is plainly absurd. As we get older, she explains, "the levels of RNA/DNA decrease." Okay. "If you do not have enough RNA/DNA," she goes on, you "may ultimately age prematurely". Stress can deplete
Freeney's diet includes nutrition and QBs
USA Today - MIAMI For a guy who devours quarterbacks, Dwight Freeney can be awfully picky about his diet. The leading sacker in Indianapolis Colts history with 56 in five seasons, Freeney relies on quickness and speed to get to the quarterback and requires
'Friendly' germs, probiotics are all the rage among consumers
San Antonio Express News - According to the Nutrition Business Journal, sales of supplements containing probiotics (which is how most probiotics are sold in this country) grew from $100 million in 1997 to $243 million in 2005 a jump of 143 percent
Campaign cherry-picks the best part of the fruit
Seattle Post Intelligencer - The publicity drive will include a summary of 65 studies of cherries' health benefits, which Manning's team will pitch to nutrition experts and fitness magazines. The industry is pumping $265,000 into further research through the University of
Schools focus on fitness, nutrition
News 14 Raleigh / Durham - RALEIGH — In school cafeterias across the country, students often pick up a slice of pizza with french fries before grabbing a banana or an orange. Even with rising childhood obesity rates nationwide, Wake County school officials say it's a
The good and the bad among nutrition bars
Seattle Times - If you've ever walked down the health-food aisle at the grocery store in search of a nutrition bar, chances are you came away overwhelmed. High protein, high energy, low fat, low sugar it seems each bar does something different. Worse yet, it's
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About the authors
Nature.com - She is working currently on peri-operative nutrition as a research fellow at the Department of Anesthesia, McGill University Health Centre, while enrolled in a Master of Science in Dietetics and Human Nutrition at McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Little Cooks in the Kitchen
Signal - In preparation for the event, the agency's director of food services, Jane Crawford, visited with the class to both present a lesson on nutrition and help students make their menu selections. "We go out and talk to the students about the importance of
Inconvenient Kyoto Truths
MSNBC - The activity is economic growth, the wealth-creation that makes possible improved well-being better nutrition, medicine, education, etc. How much reduction of such social goods are we willing to accept by slowing economic activity in order to (try
Report: Schools feeding more students
Journal & Sunday Journal - CHARLES TOWN Any given month, Jefferson County Schools feed breakfast and lunch to more than 94,000 students using an operating budget of $3.2 million annually. In its mid-year report, the Office of Child Nutrition revealed a significant amount
Charity drops Heather Mills for a McCartney
Daily Telegraph - Mills remains committed to animal rights. She is studying nutrition at University College London, with a view to launching a vegan range, and she has also held talks with the fast food giant McDonald's on producing vegan burgers, although the company
Students learn about healthy habits
Plano Star Courier - Donna Dixon, as Spike, and actor Tom Lenaghen give Malvern Elementary students some nutritional tips. Photo: Stefanie White | McKinney Courier-Gazette The Spike Live Nutrition Show gave Malvern Elementary School students some tips on healthy and