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For consumers, taste counts more than healthfulness, poll finds
Half of Americans say it’s easier to do their taxes than it is to figure out how to eat healthfully – and 23% described their diets as extremely or very unhealthful, according to an annual survey conducted by an industry-supported nonprofit...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Overweight, Consumers, Diets and Dieting, Health
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L.A. Unified a rare haven for health teachers
As if on cue, all faces turn alertly toward the front of the classroom where Bridget Brownell has set up a slide show at Taft High School in Woodland Hills.
They are about to view diseased sex organs.
"First," she said, "let me take attendance, and then...Tags: Car Safety Tips and Advice, Science and Technology, Science, Los Angeles Unified School District, Behavioral Conditions
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Caught in the cycle of poverty
After months searching for work and feeling increasingly discouraged, Natalie Cole caught a break — an offer of a part-time position at a Little Caesars Pizza shop in Compton. The manager scheduled her orientation and told her she had to pass a food...Tags: Holidays, Natalie Cole, Health and Medical Professionals, Chemicals, Teachers
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Congressman says pizza is NOT a vegetable, introduces SLICE Act
WASHINGTON -- The notion that Congress could consider pizza a vegetable may be just too much to digest. The SLICE Act, for School Lunch Improvements for Children’s Education, has been introduced in response to congressional action last fall...
Tags: Foods and Beverages, Politics, Pizzas, Jon Stewart, Earl Blumenauer
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Fructose makes rats dumber. What sugars should we avoid?
Rats fed fructose-laced drinking water for six weeks performed more slowly in a maze-navigating task, UCLA researchers have found. (Read this L.A. Times opinion article.) They think the effect is due to changes in the way the brain responds to insulin...
Tags: Medical Research, University of California, Los Angeles, Obesity, Diabetes, Science and Technology
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How to parent like a celebrity
"Mad Men" actress January Jones ate her placenta (to be fair, dried and made into a pill). Alicia Silverstone chews up veggies and deposits them mama-bird-style into her baby son's mouth. And model Gisele Bundchen says her diaper-free son was toilet...
Tags: Education, HIV, Emily Deschanel, Hepatitis B , The Big Bang Theory (tv program)
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Chain restaurants don't meet U.S. nutrition guidelines, study says
Plenty of restaurants have been advertising their efforts to offer healthful choices, and it’s possible to eat carefully just about anywhere. But researchers say nearly all the entrees they reviewed at 245 U.S. chains fail to meet federal...
Tags: Foods and Beverages, Dining and Drinking, Appetizers, Restaurants, Science and Technology
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In vegan debate, one thing parents must agree on
Is it nutritionally risky to put babies and children on a vegan diet, or is it the best thing for them? "When a mother eats meat, her breast-fed child's brain grows faster and she is able to wean the child at an earlier age, allowing her to have more...
Tags: Iron (dietary supplement), Breastfeeding, Obesity, Diabetes, Dietary Supplements
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Alicia Silverstone's baby-feeding habits dangerous, experts say
Alicia Silverstone's new video has much of America saying Ewwwwwww! The "Clueless" actress who is known for her healthy, vegan cooking and animal rights activism, posted a video on her website Tuesday that shows her feeding her child. The clip has gone...
Tags: Dentistry and Dental Health, People (magazine), Alicia Silverstone, Health, Tooth Decay
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Five Questions: Dr. Walter Willett on red meat
Dr. Walter Willett is the chair of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health. He's also a cow's best friend.
Earlier this month, Willett and colleagues, who have studied the link between diet and health for decades, published a study that followed...Tags: Heart Disease, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Cancer, Demographics, Vegetarian Diet
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Sounding the sugar alarms
Worried about trans fat or salt? That's a little old-school. If you want to stay current on dietary villains, you'll want to start thinking about sugar. Lots and lots of sugar — as in 77 grams, or nearly 20 teaspoons. That's how much added sugar...
Tags: Heart Attack, Insulin, YouTube, Obesity, Diabetes
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Seeking the right recipe for food labels
You can give people all sorts of useful information, but that doesn't mean they'll use it.
Case in point: the Nutrition Facts panels inscribed on nearly every can, box, jug, carton and plastic wrapper in which food has been sold since 1994. These small,...Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, PepsiCo Inc., Obesity, Science and Technology, Dietary Supplements
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