Friday, June 13, 2025
Smartphones Make Us Dumber

Students Who Eat Breakfast Less Likely to Become Overweight

Often called the most important meal of the day, breakfast – or more than one breakfast – may be vital in student weight control, according to a new study published in Pediatric Obesity. A two-year...
Dietary Guideline

Unpublished Study Shakes Up Dietary Guideline Thinking

Forty years ago, while the United States was preparing for the Bicentennial celebration, Minnesota researchers were studying the impact of dietary health guidelines and concluding that conventional wisdom on the subject might be wrong. For...
Water Consumption

Study: Increased Water Consumption Can Improve Your Diet

Want to cut calories and reduce your intake of saturated fat, sugar, sodium and cholesterol? Drink more water. That’s the conclusion reached by University of Illinois Kinesiology and Community Health Professor Ruopeng An, PhD. in a...
fitness apps

Smartphone Fitness Apps Popular in Efforts to Improve Health & Fitness

Smartphone applications provide sports scores, travel directions, weather forecasts, dating hookups and everything in between, so it’s no surprise that health and fitness apps are increasingly popular. Whether it’s helping people with exercise, weight management...