Today’s Immigrants Face More Health Problems and Shorter Life Spans Than...
For many generations, immigrants from all over the world have come to the United States hoping for greater opportunities and better living conditions compared to their home countries. Tales of rags to...
View ArticleHealth Status of Americans Shows Few Improvements
Most Americans aren’t getting healthier despite of easy access to information about health and lifestyle matters, according to the latest findings by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
View ArticlePlant-Based Diet – A Path to Personal Health and Environmental Sustainability
Eat more plants. That’s the simple advice coming from everyone’s lips, from best-selling authors like Michael Pollan to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in the latest version of the Dietary...
View ArticleYour Fruits and Vegetables May Not Be as Healthy as You Think
“Eat your fruits and vegetables” is not only your mother’s advice for your nutritional health but also the core message of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the official recommendations by the...
View ArticleHow Not to Get Food Poisoning
Especially in the warm weather season, it is crucially important to be vigilant about how our food is stored and handled. Each year, more than 76 million Americans succumb to foodborne illnesses,...
View ArticleVegetarians May Have Longer Life Spans Than Meat Eaters, Study Suggests
It is common knowledge that eating healthy is conducive to our well-being, including our natural aging process. But can adherence to a vegetarian diet actually add to our life span? One study published...
View ArticleRisks from Extreme Heat Are Widely Underestimated
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 7,000 Americans have died from extreme heat exposure just over the last decade, with numbers accelerating since 2006. The...
View ArticleObesity Crisis Spreads to Other Countries – Similar Causes as in the U.S.
Officially, the United States has no longer the heaviest population in the world. Mexico does now. Nearly 33 percent of Mexicans are diagnosed as obese, compared to just under 32 percent of Americans,...
View ArticleThe “Slow” Diet
The Mediterranean diet is praised by its proponents as one of the healthiest eating styles around. Dominated by fruits and vegetables, it is considered well suited for the prevention of heart disease,...
View ArticleImmigrants Changing American Food Preferences
It is a well-known fact that immigrants to the United States tend to adapt to our eating habits rather quickly, which is not always to their advantage from a health perspective. But it is also true...
View ArticleStaying Physically Healthy and Mentally Engaged Protects Best Against...
Three independent studies from Europe confirmed what experts suspected all along but had not been able to say with certainty, namely that both physical health and mental activity are both contributing...
View ArticleProtect Your Family from the Summer Heat
As yet another heat wave with record-breaking temperatures grips much of the country, people are trying to cope as best as they can. Especially young children, the elderly, and those working or...
View ArticleFor Low-Income Families, Healthy Choices Are No Easy Choices
In 2008, Congress authorized a test project to determine whether increasing monetary incentives would improve the eating habits and subsequently the overall nutritional health of low-income families....
View ArticleDon’t Just Sit There, It’s Not Healthy!
Health experts have long warned that a sedentary lifestyle can contribute to a number of diseases and even shorten people’s lifespan. Several recent studies have confirmed that sitting for hours while...
View ArticleMore Attention Must Be Paid to Obesity Prevention, Report Finds
The United States government does not enough to prevent obesity and obesity-related illnesses, according to the latest assessment by the Institute of Medicine, a non-profit organization that advises...
View ArticleBreakfast – Yes or No?
Many followers of healthy eating and lifestyle habits, myself included, get confused every so often over seemingly contradictory messages they receive from new study findings. The latest reports on the...
View ArticleNot Your Mother’s Supermarket
For generations, food shopping in America was the easiest thing to do. One stop at almost any supermarket would get you everything you could possibly want or need. Price, efficiency and convenience...
View ArticleMalnutrition, Another Form of Hunger
September is hunger awareness month. We are not talking about the developing world where food shortages have long been a menace to vast parts of its populations, but in the United States, one of the...
View ArticleToo Much Food Is Wasted, In Part Because of Confusing Labeling
About 40 percent of the food produced in the United States remains uneaten and goes to waste. Much of that comes from supermarkets and restaurants, but individual households also discard more food than...
View ArticleKeeping a Healthy Diet and Lifestyle in the Cold Season
It’s easier to eat right and be active outdoors during the summer months when the weather is warm and dry, and fresh fruits and vegetables are plentiful. It’s a different story when the temperatures...
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