Public Health

Obesity rates across Canada are at alarming levels and continuing to climb, according to a new paper in the Canadian Journal of Public Health, which provides the first comprehensive look at adult obesity rates across Canada since 1998- complete with " ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 27 2013 - 4:22pm

Flexocrats: The Donut Is Not The Problem, It's Us

And the obesity wars drone on: it’s the sugar, it’s the fat, it’s the paucity of playgrounds, it’s the prevalence of too-thin models and TV and gaming and chips and texting. It’s the lack of parental discipline and self-restraint. But wait: what if we acce ...

Article - Greg Critser - Mar 1 2013 - 2:23pm

Lymphoid Cells Benefit: Eating Leafy Vegetables Now Has A New Science Basis

If your children stump you with 'cite your data' claims on why they need to eat leafy green vegetables, even though we got to the top of the food chain so we wouldn't have to do that, here is good news; a new study found that that an immune ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 4 2013 - 6:31pm

Super Metabolism? Disabling Plin2 Gene Prevents Obesity In Mice

Deleting a specific gene in mice prevents them from becoming obese - even on a high fat diet, according to a two-year study funded by the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Agriculture and published in the Journal of Lipid Research ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 5 2013 - 7:00pm

Do Diet And Exercise Lead To 'Healthier Hormones'?

Being an overweight, lazy person is bad in lots of ways: Epidemiologists estimate that about 80 percent of the most common diseases are linked to being severely overweight and leading a sedentary lifestyle. Obese people are at an increased risk for cardio ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 7 2013 - 1:59pm

Want To Die Young? Be An Elite In Ancient Egypt

In Hollywood period pieces, ancient Egypt is disturbingly western-looking actresses rolling out of carpets in magnificent palaces. The reality seems to be different, even for the elites. Governors and commoners alike suffered from hunger and malnutrition, ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 7 2013 - 11:50am

Enhanced Fertilizers Could Cut Nutritional Deficiency In Africa

Enriching crops by adding a naturally-occurring soil mineral to fertilizers in Malawi could potentially help to reduce disease and premature death caused by a dietary deficiency of the mineral selenium — which plays a vital role in keeping the immune syst ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 13 2013 - 11:41am

What's Worse For Your Heart, The Weight Gain After Quitting Smoking Or The Smoking?

An analysis of data from the Framingham Offspring Study, which follows children of participants in the original Framingham Heart Study, may have answered a question that has been asked by doctors and smokers alike; do the health effects of any weight gain ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 12 2013 - 5:25pm

The Market For Injectable Antibodies

The administration of therapeutic antibodies via injection is becoming an increasingly popular treatment method for a growing number diseases and indications having broad implications for patient health and well-being. The inherent instability of protein ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 14 2013 - 10:09am

Maybe We Need A McDonald's For Healthy Foods

Food so cheap that poor people can be fat is a miracle only dreamed about by philosophers ad economists throughout history. It was previously believed that the labor force needed to produce enough food would outstrip the food they could produce, something ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 3 2013 - 4:44pm