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Children who eat vended snack foods face chronic health problems, poor diet
School children who consume foods purchased in vending machines are more likely to develop poor diet quality - and that may be associated with being overweight, obese or at risk for chronic ...
20 hours ago from PhysOrg
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Americans struggle with long-term weight loss
Only about one in every six Americans who have ever been overweight or obese loses weight and maintains that loss, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.
3 hours ago from PhysOrg
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Risk of marijuana's 'gateway effect' overblown, research shows
New research from the University of New Hampshire shows that the "gateway effect" of marijuana - that teenagers who use marijuana are more likely to move on to harder illicit drugs as young ...
Thu 2 Sep 10 from PhysOrg
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Can home cooking be hazardous to your health?
(AP) -- Could your kitchen at home pass a restaurant inspection? New researcher suggests that at least one in seven home kitchens would flunk the kind of health inspection commonly administered ...
24 hours ago from PhysOrg
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UK: New guidelines to ease sleepless nights
Insomnia and other sleep disorders are very common, yet are not generally well understood by doctors and other health care professionals. Now the British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP) ...
Thu 2 Sep 10 from PhysOrg
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Employers shifting health-care costs to workers, survey shows
Amid high unemployment and a weak economy, employers have been shifting health care costs to workers, according to a study released Thursday. Health care - United States - Health care reform ...
22 hours ago from The Washington Post
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Publication of World Health Report 2000 'an act of remarkable courage,' says school expert
Martin McKee, Professor of European Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine has contributed one of three commentaries appearing today in the journal Health Policy and Planning, ...
4 hours ago from Eurekalert
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Pediatric weight expert provides obesity trinity answers
In a first person paper published in the August 27, 2010 issue of Childhood Obesity, Dr. Melinda Sothern, Director of Health Promotion and Professor of Public Health at LSU Health Sciences Center ...
22 hours ago from PhysOrg
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Safety groups find no Pampers link to rash cases
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Two agencies investigating claims that Procter & Gamble Co's Pampers Dry Max gave children severe diaper rash reported Thursday that they have found no specific cause ...
21 hours ago from Reuters
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Too little sleep bad for teenagers' diets: study
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Teenagers who sleep less than eight hours a night on weeknights eat more fatty foods and snacks than those who get more than eight hours of sleep a night, U.S. researchers ...
Thu 2 Sep 10 from Reuters
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