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Washington, D.C --- Parents who want their kids to consume fewer calories and eat more vegetables might find a healthy solution with “stealth vegetables.” A Penn State study shows that decreasing the calorie density of foods by adding vegetables and other lower-calorie ingredients leads to a reduction in children’s calorie intake and an increase in vegetable consumption.
“To combat the epidemic of childhood obesity, the World Health Organization recommends reducing children’s consumption of calorie-dense foods. Many children are not eating enough foods that are low in calorie density, such as fruits and vegetables,” said Dr. Barbara Rolls, who holds the Helen A. Guthrie chair of nutritional sciences at Penn State’s College of Health and Human Development. “Parents often find it difficult to get their kids to eat vegetables.” |
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32.5% Yes, I'm very concerned, and the government needs to create more stringent guidelines, and stricter enforcement.
30% Yes, it's concerning. But I still go about my food shopping as usual.
13.8% No, I'm not concerned. It's not as big of a deal as the media is making out of it.
11.3% Yes, it's concerning, and I typically don't buy the products that are contaminated again.
6.3% No, it's not concerning to me at all. I think the government and food suppliers are doing a great job regulating food.
6.3% Not sure--it sounds scary, but I've never known anyone who is affected by it. |
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The Spanish Ageing Research Network (Red Nacional de Investigación del Envejecimiento), funded by Carlos III Health Institute and headed by professor Darío Acuña Castroviejo, from the University of Granada (Universidad de Granada [http://www.ugr.es/]), concluded that the consumption of melatonin – a natural substance produced in small amounts by human beings and present in many types of food – delays the oxidative damage and inflammatory processes typical of the old age. Melatonin can be found in small amounts in some fruits and vegetables, like onions, cherries and bananas, and in cereals like corn, oats and rice, as well as in some aromatic plants, such as mint, lemon verbena, sage or thyme, and in red wine. |
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Obese and overweight children increase their food intake by more than 100 percent after watching food advertisements on television; a study by the University of Liverpool psychologists has shown
LIVERPOOL, UK – Obese and overweight children increase their food intake by more than 100% after watching food advertisements on television; a study by the University of Liverpool psychologists has shown.
A group of 60 children of varying weights, aged between nine and eleven years was shown a series of both food television adverts and toy adverts, followed by a cartoon. Food intake following the food adverts was significantly higher compared with the toy adverts in all weight groups, with the obese children increasing their consumption by 134%; overweight children by 101% and normal weight children by 84%. |
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