In the Fight Against Obesity, Experts Remain Divided Over Strategies
Do food manufacturers bear a responsibility for the global obesity crisis? Of course they do. So do restaurants that offer nutritionally poor fare and exorbitant portion sizes. But the decision to...
View ArticleA New Emphasis on Mental and Emotional Well-Being in Healthcare
That diet and exercise are important pillars of good health is common knowledge, even among those who don’t necessarily follow suit. But when it comes to caring for their mental and emotional...
View ArticleHow You Can Reach Your Health Potential
According to polls, most of us think of ourselves as healthy, despite the fact that the obesity crisis keeps growing and multiple diet- and lifestyle-related diseases continue to rise. While the exact...
View ArticleWho Teaches Us About Health?
When I was a child, doctors still made house calls. For those too young to understand what I’m even talking about, I have to explain that in those days a physician would actually come to your home,...
View ArticleComing Food Trends – How Global Events Change Our Eating Habits
Like it or not, globalization has arrived on our dinner plates big time. The palates of today’s families are much more educated in terms of foreign foods and eating habits than ever before. All kinds...
View ArticleWhat Fear Can Do
While today’s world is a risky place and evokes many well-founded concerns, the experience of fear itself creates new risks that can affect a person’s health and well-being. In fact, the hazards of...
View ArticleWhat Is Your Life Plan?
We all have at least a vague idea of how our lives should look like. Most goals we set for ourselves are short- or mid-term. A long-range game plan or grand design is much harder to follow. But that...
View ArticleWith “Healthy” Food, You Don’t Always Get What You Pay For
“You get what you pay for” is an old truism that many of us take for granted. At times that may be a justifiable assumption, but not always. When health-conscious consumers spend significantly more for...
View ArticleYounger Consumers Are More Health-Conscious Than Previous Generations,...
When it comes to health matters, people seem to become more proactive than they used to be. While professional healthcare is generally still practiced in response to disease, an increasing interest in...
View ArticleWhy Some People Never Seem to Get Sick
Winter weather makes most of us apprehensive about getting a cold or the flu, and often enough those fears are justified. No matter how religiously we wash our hands, keep our distance from others who...
View ArticleWhat Is the Right Amount of Sleep?
The importance of getting enough sleep is undisputed among experts. But research also suggests that too much shut-eye may do just as much harm as too little. When it comes to the right amount of rest...
View ArticleHealth-Conscious or Self-Obsessed? In Terms of Diet and Lifestyle,...
Millennials are said to be particularly discerning in their choices, from where and how they like to work to what they shop for and what they eat. But this insistence on always having one’s needs met...
View ArticlePrice and Convenience Remain Top Priorities in Most Consumers’ Food Choices
Food is not cheap. High quality food can be prohibitively expensive. Even people who want to improve their diet may be prevented from doing so because of the costs involved. There are ways to stretch a...
View ArticleThink Yourself Healthy
There is nothing magic about eating right, exercising regularly, getting enough sleep, or managing stress. We all know that those are crucial elements of a health-promoting lifestyle. So why are so...
View ArticleThe Healing Power of Food
“Let food be your medicine” is a well-known quotation by Hippocrates, a physician and philosopher who lived in ancient Greece and is commonly considered the forefather of modern medical practice. But...
View ArticleWhat Gives “Health Food” a Bad Name?
The perception that healthier foods like fruits and vegetables are less palatable than, let's say, comfort food, is widespread. Research has long shown how fat, salt and sugar trigger pleasure...
View ArticleMalnutrition Affects Not Only the Poor
When we hear of malnutrition or undernutrition, famine and food insecurities – most prevalent in the developing world and perhaps among the poorest in more advanced societies – come to mind. Less...
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