Many of our eating habits are formed as young children and these become increasingly more difficult to change as we get older. It turns out that cultivating school gardens can increase the daily vegetable intake of elementary school children by offering an opportunity to educate … [Read more...] about Cultivating school gardens encourages children to eat more vegetables
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Study: Eating dinner early can help you lower blood sugar and burn fat
Conventional wisdom is that a calorie is a calorie, no matter when you eat it, and that weight gain is caused by eating more calories than you use. Nutritionists call this the calories in, calories out theory of weight control. But it might not be as simple as that. New research … [Read more...] about Study: Eating dinner early can help you lower blood sugar and burn fat
Cycling and walking to your work can help you live longer
As governments around the world are actively encouraging citizens to skip public transit and instead cycle and walk more during the pandemic, the findings of a massive recent study may actually sway people to do so even after the pandemic. Coming from Imperial College London, … [Read more...] about Cycling and walking to your work can help you live longer
The amount of people dying from heart attacks sharply declined since 1995
In the 1990s, having a heart attack was basically a death sentence for some 20 percent of the people who suffered one. By 2014, that number fell to just 12 percent. So what led to these significant declines in fatality rates for heart-attack patients? Much of it has to do with a … [Read more...] about The amount of people dying from heart attacks sharply declined since 1995