Young adults need to cultivate healthy eating habits

September 17th, 2009 First lady speaks and shops at farmers marketWASHINGTON — First lady Michelle Obama bought cheese, fingerling potatoes, eggs, black kale and other items Thursday at the launch of a new farmers market blocks from the White House. Before shopping, Mrs.

July 31st, 2009 WASHINGTON - A team of researchers has identified factors that may increase overweight adolescents' risk of engaging in extreme weight control behaviors such as self-induced vomiting, the use of diet pills, laxatives, and diuretics, as well as binge eating. Overweight youth with certain socio-environmental, psychological, and behavioral tendencies, such as reading magazine articles about dieting, reporting a lack of family connectedness, placing a high importance on weight, and reporting having participated in unhealthy weight control behaviors, are more likely to suffer from eating disorders.

July 15th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A 'heart healthy' diet and taking moderate exercise can protect against cognitive decline, according to two new studies. Researchers at Utah State University in the US found that over-65s on a diet full of green leafy vegetables, oily fish and the odd glass of red wine scored higher in mental tests.

April 24th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Changing bad habits such as smoking, even at an older age, could positively impact a senior's health later in life, a new study has found. The research linking bad habits such as smoking and the direct impact on a senior's health, was conducted on over 2,000 seniors who were current smokers, past smokers and had never smoked.

April 24th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Previous smokers easily outpaced current smokers in physical activity, suggesting that giving up such bad habits can positively impact a senior's health later in life. These findings were based on a study of more than 2,000 seniors who were current smokers, past smokers and had never smoked.

April 20th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Eating just one and a half servings of tart cherries could boost your antioxidant activity and cut risk factors for heart diseases, says the latest research. The University of Michigan (U-M) study found that healthy adults who ate a cup and a half of frozen cherries had increased levels of antioxidants, specifically five different anthocyanins, natural antioxidants that give cherries their distinctive colour.

April 15th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Hollywood actress Tori Spelling has rebuffed claims that she is suffering from anorexia, insisting that she eats healthy and doesn't believe in starving herself. Tori says that her thinner frame has been a subject of speculation, but it is her busy lifestyle that keeps the fat away.

March 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Most Americans consume more than double the amount of their daily recommended salt intake, says a new study. A study by the Centres for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention shows that more than two out of three adults are in population groups that should consume no more than 1,500 mg per day of sodium.

March 18th, 2009 LOS ANGELES - California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has launched a new environmental jobs programme for at-risk young adults, saying that the training programme could fight poverty and pollution at the same time. Schwarzenegger made the announcement Monday night, saying that he would use $10 million of the federal economic stimulus to help fund the programme with a further $10 million from public-private partnerships.

March 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Regular family meals result in better eating habits for adolescents, a new study has suggested. During the study, researchers at the School of Public Health, University of Minnesota found that adolescents who participated in regular family meals reported more healthful diets and meal patterns compared to adolescents without regular family meals.

March 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new study from University of Montreal has revealed that exposure to perinatal environment, the period around childbirth especially the five months before and one month after childbirth, has a significant impact on aggression in children. The research team led by Sylvana Cote, a professor at the Universite de Montreal Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, has found that pregnant mothers exposed to adverse conditions such as poverty, stress, malnutrition are likely to have aggressive kids.

March 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Older people are better able to manage emotions than their younger counterparts, according to a study. The research study found that reducing negative emotions or inhibiting unwanted thoughts is a resource-demanding process that disrupts the ability of young adults to simultaneously or subsequently perform tasks.

February 26th, 2009 SYDNEY - Food prices may have skyrocketed worldwide since 2000, but eating healthy is still affordable for the average family, according to new research. The survey found rising food costs have been matched by increasing average incomes and welfare payments, making the affordability of healthy food about the same as it was in 2000.

January 29th, 2009 WASHINGTON - High-school kids glued to TV sets most of the time are likely to develop bad eating habits five years later, according to a study. Daheia Barr-Anderson worked with University of Minnesota researchers to investigate the link between TV and diet.

January 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Does eating less help fend off weight gain in middle age? Yes, says a new study. The study found that women had more than twice the risk of substantial weight gain if they did not become more restrained in their eating.