Smokers at risk from their own ‘second-hand’ smoke

It is well known that smokers alteration their health by directly inhaling cigarette smoke. Now, research has shown that they are at additional risk from breathing environmental tobacco smoke, contrary to the prevailing assumption that such risks would be negligible in comparison to those incurred by actually smoking.

Healthy Eating Tips

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Minority teen boys smoke more when they perceive discrimination; girls do not

Researchers in Indiana report that minority teen boys smoke more when they perceived discrimination, girls reacted differently. There does not appear to be an association between perceived discrimination and smoking in minority girls, ages 12-15. For minority girls ages 16-19, perceived discrimination is associated with lower, not higher, rates of smoking.

Mindful Eating for Healthy Weight Loss: Slowing Down

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Why do poor people smoke more?

Social position is intimately linked with health-related risk factors. Scientists are determining to what extent smoking, physical inactivity, and blubber are associated with social status.

Friendship may help stem rise of obesity in children, study finds

Parents are acutely aware of the influence of friends on their children’s behavior — how they dress, how they wear their hair, whether they drink or smoke. A new laboratory-based study has shown that friends also might influence how much adolescents eat.

At last — food composition explained!

A new guide to sourcing and using data on food has been produced by the EuroFIR project. This new guide on food composition data explains the issues and pitfalls in sourcing and using data on food. Information on the composition of foods is vital for a wide range of people, including health professionals, regulators, caterers and those working in the food industry. For example, you can see this in the nutrition information provided on food packaging, and it is important in determining the suggestions about what we take and drink given by government bodies.

Setting the record straight on weight loss

It’s time to set the record straight. The only reliable way to lose weight is to take less or exercise more. Preferably both. So why bother to say the obvious? Because a body of scientific literature has arisen over current years, suggesting that fat oxidation — burning the fats we take as opposed to the carbohydrates — is enough to promote fat loss. It isn’t, according to new research.

Fat mass helps build bone mass in girls, study suggests; excessive fat reduction may increase osteoporosis risk

According to a new study, fat mass is important in increasing bone size and thickness, but this effect appears to be stronger in girls than boys.

Vitamin C ‘cures’ mice with accelerated aging disease

New research recommends that treatments for disorders that cause accelerated aging, particularly Werner’s syndrome, might come straight from the family medicine chest. In their study, a team of Canadian scientists shows that vitamin C stops and even reverses accelerated aging in a mouse model of Werner’s syndrome, but the discovery might also be applicable to other progeroid syndromes.