July 9th, 2008 flowercarole
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed a €90 million scheme that would see free fruit and vegetables provided to schoolchildren across the EU from next year.
If it receives approval from the Council of Ministers and European Parliament, the scheme will be offered to member states, including Ireland, later in the year.
The initiative was announced in Brussels yesterday by Mariann Fischer Boel, commissioner for agriculture and rural development, who said the commission wanted to demonstrate it was serious about taking concrete steps to fight obesity.
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July 9th, 2008 flowercarole
New research suggests that losing weight can be almost as easy as putting pen to paper.
A new study has found that overweight and obese men and women who exercised and followed a healthy diet lost more weight if they kept a diary of what they ate.
Study subjects who kept track of their eating habits actually lost almost twice the weight - an average of 13 pounds - compared to those who did not.
A Canadian weight-loss specialist said the findings prove that one of the key long-term treatments for losing weight is learning how to modify food intake.
“Journaling helps us plot this course,” Dr. Robert Dent, founder of the weight loss clinic at The Ottawa Hospital, said Tuesday in an interview on CTV Newsnet. “So not only does it help us understand how to restrict certain foods, it helps us understand that we can have certain foods in moderation.”
The study was conducted by researchers at Kaiser Permanente’s Center for Health Research in Portland, Ore. The findings will be published in the August edition of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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May 13th, 2008 flowercarole
Here in the UK we’ve had several days of constant sunshine (it’s hard to believe I know - but we have honestly). Over these particular hot and sunny days the supermarkets have been packed out with people buying their salad and BBQ ingredients such as bags upon bags of tomatoes, lettuces and cucumbers, but how much will they actually eat and how much will they throw away should the sun go in?
I couldn’t believe my eyes when people were snatching at the lettuces as if there was no tomorrow, but I can guarantee that half of those people have just gone along with the mad rush for them and will now leaving them to rot in their fridge as they probably thought it’s a nice sunny day and I shall start my diet today. Read the rest of this entry »
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