Washington, Nov 10 (ANI): Obese teenage women are two times more likely to develop multiple sclerosis (MS) as adults than female teens who are not fat, says a new study.
The study has been published in the November 10, 2009, print issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
The research involved 238,371women [...]
Washington, Sept 27 (ANI): Researchers have developed a program that offers a more comprehensive approach to tackle childhood obesity and encourage kids to live healthier lives.
They found that a family, school and community intervention program helps children live healthier lives and could be a new tool in the fight against the nation’s childhood obesity epidemic.
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Washington, September 23 (ANI): An intervention called the Switch programme has been found to be helpful in promoting fruit and vegetable consumption among children, and in lowering “screen time”.
Douglas Gentile, a psychology professor from Iowa State University in the US, tested the programme that asks people to “Switch what you Do, View, and Chew”.
Writing [...]
