All posts tagged with junk food
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-(Natural News) Around the globe, healthcare professionals are worried about the steadily climbing rates of child obesity. Are school lunches to blame for this alarming trend? Children spend most of their time at school, and most of their daily calories come from the meals they eat there. Caroline Fitzpatrick, a child development researcher interested in […]
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-(Natural News) We need to have a discussion on how much your lifestyle affects your health. Movements regarding body positivity and self-love claim that “health [comes] at every size” (otherwise known as the HAES movement) but science constantly debunks this with evidence that proves that carrying excess fat is not compassionate to one’s self, nor […]
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-(Natural News) According to a recent study, parents may need to pay closer attention to the animated movies that their children watch because these films could be “fueling the obesity crisis.” Almost all films for children showcase unhealthy food. Out of all the top-grossing children’s films released in recent years, 87 percent show unhealthy food and all […]
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-(Natural News) Reducing the number of deaths related to cardiovascular diseases and diabetes can be accomplished through simple price changes. This was the suggestion put forth by a radical new study, one spearheaded by Tufts University researchers. They discovered that taxing unhealthy foods (processed meat, unprocessed red meat, and sugar-sweetened beverages) while subsidizing healthy foods […]
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-(Natural News) Faced with increasing demands for healthier breakfast alternatives, the Kellog Company, the parent company for the Kellogg’s cereal brands, has announced that it will curb sugar content for its top three children’s cereals by between 20 to 40 percent starting next year. According to Oli Morton, managing director of Kellog’s U.K., the move is due […]
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-(Natural News) If you know someone who eats whatever they want and never seems to gain any weight, it’s normal to feel a little envious. However, they could be doing their body just as much harm as they would by gaining weight. This is according to a new study that reveals the quality of your […]
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-(Natural News) Children who are extremely obese have only a one in five chance of being of normal weight as adults. Unfortunately, current estimates place around 4.5 million children in the United States being overweight. According to a report released by researchers at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts that was published in the New England Journal of […]
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-(Natural News) Children whose attention are always focused on television are more likely to avoid fruits and vegetables, according to scientists. Researchers from the Loughborough University surveyed 527 children between the ages of 11 and 12 and found that two-thirds of the young participants spent more than two hours viewing TV, which affected their eating habits. They […]
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-(Natural News) When you’re hard at work and you get into that highly productive “zone,” it might feel like nothing can stop you. However, scientists have shown that junk food can snap you right out of focus – even if you only see it subliminally. In the study, which was carried out by scientists at […]
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-(Natural News) A new study that was published in The Journals of Gerontology: Series A reveals that people who forego junk food in their 30s have more stamina and balance even when they reach their 60s. Researchers at the University of Southampton in England analyzed the diets of 969 British men and women and looked […]
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