Public Health

Energy Balance: Label Food With 'Activity Equivalent' Calorie Information, Says BMJ

Food should be labeled with the equivalent exercise to expend its calories to help people change their behavior, argues Shirley Cramer, Chief Executive at the Royal Society of Public Health, in The BMJ. Giving consumers an immediate link between foods ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 7 2016 - 6:30am

More Sin Tax On Sugary Drinks Will Prevent Obesity, Claims Paper

A 20 percent tax on sugar-sweetened drinks would result in widespread, long-lasting public health benefits and significant health cost savings, an estimated $400 million a year and reduce annual health expenditure by up to $29 million, according to a comp ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 18 2016 - 6:30am

Studies Of E-Cigarettes Suggest More Benefit Than Harm

Seven top international tobacco control experts are prompting regulators at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to have a broad "open-minded" perspective when it comes to regulating vaporized nicotine products, especially e-cigarettes.  ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 25 2016 - 8:56am

New Hampshire Infants Who Ate Rice Had Higher Urinary Concentrations Of Arsenic

Rice and rice products are typical first foods for infants in some countries and a new study found that infants who ate rice and rice products had higher urinary arsenic concentrations than those who did not consume any type of rice. ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 25 2016 - 6:51pm

Is Meat Killing Us? Meta-Analysis By Osteopaths Says Yes

A review of six studies that evaluated the effects of meat and vegetarian diets on mortality involving more than 1.5 million people concluded all-cause mortality is higher for those who eat meat, particularly red or processed meat, on a daily basis. The w ...

Article - News Staff - May 5 2016 - 2:42pm

We’re Not In Europe Any More: BfR Statement On EDCs Embraces The Risk-Based Approach

Last week the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) released a consensus statement on criteria for identifying endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) that could input to the European Commission’s mandate to develop and implement criteria for E ...

Blog Post - Gregory Bond - May 10 2016 - 2:35pm

Takeout Food Is Why You're Poor And Uneducated, Say Cambridge Elites

Want to see social inequality and how it impacts obesity? Look at takeout food in your neighborhood- and in the halls of Cambridge. Yet the halls of Cambridgee are where a new paper claims takeout food is an indicator of social inequality. Obviously elite ...

Article - News Staff - May 12 2016 - 5:44am

Gluten-Free Diet For Non-Celiac Kids Is A Terrible Idea

Diagnoses of celiac disease (CD), an autoimmune disease, are increasing, no real surprise after not one but two bestselling food books based on suspect studies claimed wheat is poison. ...

Article - News Staff - May 13 2016 - 7:36am

Endocrine Disruption: A New Strategy?

Slama et al. (2016) recently published a paper on issues relevant to setting regulations for endocrine disrupting substances in the European Union. 1    The authors discuss options associated with these issues, briefly described as use of interim criteria ...

Article - Patricia Nance - May 16 2016 - 2:47pm

Low Nicotine Cigarettes Still Reduce Body Weight

It used to be a truism that when people stopped smoking, they were likely to gain weight, but the reasons for it were cloudy. Did people replace the mechanism of smoking with candy and food, or did nicotine suppress body weight gain independent of food in ...

Article - News Staff - May 19 2016 - 12:32pm