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Could your child be preordained to be an overweight couch potato? New Zealand physiologists are proposing that the well-known association between obesity, metabolic syndrome, sedentary behaviour, and overeating might have a common biological cause.
Adolescent girls who consume a moderate amount of dairy products are not likely to have a higher body mass index or experience an increase in percentage of body fat, concludes a new study.
The time has come for serious action in the food industry, as UK-based international obesity task force echoes previous calls for help in bringing about a 'major transformation in diet and activity' in response to the ever rising numbers of overweight...
The British Nutrition Foundation (BNF) is to hold a conference in September for the launch of its publication 'Plants: Diet and Health 2003', providing detailed information on substances in plant-based foods that may have a protective and positive...