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Does Food Marketing Need To Make Us Fat? A Review And Solutions

Date: Oct-13-2012
Food marketers are masters at getting people to crave and consume the foods that they promote. In this study authors Dr. Brian Wansink, co-director of the Cornell University Center for Behavioral Economics in Child Nutrition and Professor of Marketing and Dr. Pierre Chandon, professor of Marketing at the leading French graduate school of business, INSEAD challenge popular assumptions that link food marketing and obesity...

Revisiting The Marshmallow Study

Date: Oct-13-2012
Delaying Gratification Depends as Much on Nurture as on Nature  For the past four decades, the "marshmallow test" has served as a classic experimental measure of children's self-control: will a preschooler eat one of the fluffy white confections now or hold out for two later? Now a new study demonstrates that being able to delay gratification is influenced as much by the environment as by innate ability...

Young Women Often Don't Resume Condom Use After Stopping Contraception

Date: Oct-13-2012
Adolescent girls who use hormonal contraceptive birth control, stop using condoms as often as they would have before, a finding seen in an alarming new study, conducted by researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine. Researchers claim that when these young women stop taking their pills, they do not resume the use of condoms, which can result in the sexually transmitted infections, (STIs) and unwanted pregnancy...

Veterans That Smoke Are At A Higher Risk Of Alcohol Abuse Relapse

Date: Oct-13-2012
New research verifies previous studies by Dr. Timothy Durazzo and his colleagues, showing that smoking, while trying to quit drinking alcohol, impairs learning, memory, and other cognitive skills, hindering successful sobriety. Alcohol dependency, cigarettes, and the military Dr. Durazzo comments: "Given our strong and consistent research findings in both Veterans and civilians on the ill-effects of chronic smoking, we truly hope to see smoking cessation programs become increasingly available for our current active-duty war fighters...

Global Efforts Necessary To Prevent Fragility Fractures Due To Osteoporosis

Date: Oct-13-2012
The International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) has released a new report, revealing approximately 80 percent of patients treated in clinics or hospitals following a fracture are not screened for osteoporosis or risk of future falls. Left untreated, these patients are at high risk of suffering secondary fractures and facing a future of pain, disfigurement, long-term disability and even early death...

Nerve Signals Are Sent As Electrical Impulses At Varying Speeds

Date: Oct-13-2012
After sixty years, a theory which said that nerve signals are sent throughout the body at different speeds as electrical impulses, has been proven true in a recent study. A team from the University of Edinburgh analyzed how these signals are transmitted through nerve fibers, which allows our body to move and identify senses, including smell and touch. This research, published in Current Biology and funded by the Wellcome Trust, confirms the idea which initially came from Nobel laureate Sir Andrew Huxley...

Guilt Proneness And Ethical Behavior: The Good, The Bad, And The Guilty

Date: Oct-13-2012
From politics to finance, government to education, ethics-related scandals seem to crop up with considerable regularity. As whistleblowers and investigative journalists bring these scandals to light, one can't help but wonder: Are there specific character traits that predispose people to unethical behavior? Converging evidence suggests that the answer could be guilt proneness. In a new article in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, researchers Taya Cohen and Nazli Turan of Carnegie Mellon University and A.T...

Folic Acid, Vitamins B6 And 12 Do Not Affect Colorectal Adenoma Risk

Date: Oct-12-2012
Combined folic acid, vitamin B6 and vitamin B12 supplements had no statistically significant effect on the risk of colorectal adenoma among women who were at high risk for cardiovascular disease, according to a study published October 12 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Between 28% and 35% of the U.S...

Is Risk Of Atrial Fibrillation Linked With Moderate Alcohol Consumption?

Date: Oct-12-2012
Alcohol consumption among cardiovascular disease (CVD) patients, including individuals with stroke, heart disease, diabetes and coronary heart disease, increases the risk of atrial fibrillation (AF), according to results from two large studies. Prior trials have shown an increased risk of AF among heavy drinkers, and the new study shows the same link between patients who already have CVD...

Vitamins B6, B12 Plus Folic Acid Do Not Reduce Colorectal Adenoma Risk

Date: Oct-12-2012
Taking the supplement combo of vitamins B6, B12 and folic acid has no impact on colorectal adenoma risk in females at high risk of cardiovascular disease, researchers from Harvard Medical School in Boston reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, October 12th issue. Dietary supplements are extremely popular throughout the world, and especially in the USA. According to some studies, between 28% and 35% of Americans said they take dietary supplements which contain vitamins B6, B12 and folic acid...