Your Healt Your Life - Enjoy Your Healthy Life
Kentuckians can act to protect against heart disease and stroke; half of preventable deaths occur in adults age 65 or younger
Kids' excessive salty snacks are linked to obesity, high blood pressure; new limits on school vending items may help
As new research shows that America's child-obesity epidemic is linked to eating too many salty snacks, new federal regulations could en...
To keep kids from getting fat, use smaller plates and portions, limit TV viewing and make sure they get 10 hours of sleep a night
Glucagon, Dietary Protein, and Low-Carbohydrate Diets
Glucagon is a hormone that plays an important role in blood glucose control. Like insulin, it's secreted by the pancreas, though it...
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diet,
liver,
low-carb,
overweight
Does the Mediterranean Diet Reduce Cardiovascular Risk?
By now, most of you have probably heard about the recent study on the "Mediterranean diet" ( 1 ), a diet that was designed by diet...
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cardiovascular disease,
diet
First major study of diet and strokes links fried, sugary Southern diet, low on fruits and vegetables, to increased risk
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diabetes,
diet,
heart disease,
soda,
stroke,
vegetables
Why Do We Eat? A Neurobiological Perspective. Part IV
In this post, I'll follow up on the last post with a discussion two more important factors that can affect energy homeostasis and theref...
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diet,
leptin,
overweight
Why Do We Eat? A Neurobiological Perspective. Part III
In the first post, I explained that all voluntary actions are driven by a central action selection system in the mesolimbic area (the reward...
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diet,
Food reward,
hyperphagia,
overweight
Common beliefs about obesity and weight loss found to be myths
Think going to gym class drives weight loss, or that breastfeeding protects a child from obesity? Think again, because these are among seven...
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breastfeeding,
child obesity,
diet,
exercise,
food,
nutrition,
obesity,
research,
weight loss
Why Do We Eat? A Neurobiological Perspective. Part II
In the last post, I explained that eating behavior is determined by a variety of factors, including hunger and a number of others that I...
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diet,
fats,
Food reward,
hyperphagia,
overweight
Why Do We Eat? A Neurobiological Perspective. Part I
As with all voluntary movements, eating food is an expression of activity in the brain. The brain integrates various inputs from around the...
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diet,
Food reward,
overweight
Announcing the Ideal Weight Program
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diet,
overweight
Overfeeding and Elevated Insulin
It's commonly accepted in the obesity research community that fat gain causes insulin resistance and an increase in circulating insulin,...
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diet,
overweight
Colorful fruits and vegetables linked to lower breast cancer risk
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breast cancer,
diet,
nutrition,
research
Rural Obesity Prevention Tool Kit created to tackle epidemic: 40 percent of rural adults in U.S. are obese
When the Journal of Rural Health recently reported that 40 percent of adults living in rural areas are obese, compared with 33 percent of...
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diet,
nutrition,
obesity,
rural health,
rural-urban disparities
British researchers say a simple calculation can predict likelihood of a baby's chance of becoming obese during childhood
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cardiovascular disease,
childhood obesity,
diabetes,
diet,
nutrition
Health coalition asks Nickelodeon to stop marketing sugary and fatty snacks to children
A coalition of health groups thinks maybe it's time to enlist SpongeBob in the childhood obesity fight. Earlier this week, the groups as...
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childhood obesity,
children's health,
diet,
nutrition,
pediatrics,
sugar,
television
More Thoughts on Macronutrient Trends
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diet,
hyperphagia,
overweight
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By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Part of the sales pitch for the federal health-care reform law was that people could keep their do...
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I've read a number of reports in recent days gushing over the progress Covered California is making leading the nation in signing up peo...
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I think you can guess who said that. Actually, here is what the President said at the American Medical Association Meeting in July, 2009––an...
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The title of this post is the exact title of a recent editorial in the American Journal of Cardiology ( 1 ). Investigators calculated the ...
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Almost a fourth of the inmates in Kentucky's prisons and jails have a mental-health issue, and it's part of a growing national probl...
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Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the protein content ... -
Obamacare is impacting the small group insurance market in many of the same ways as the individual health insurance market. While employers ...
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Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...
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Part 1 is here . This is the second a series of posts I plan on the issue of "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil" regarding... -
I can provide you with an Obamacare federal exchange rollout update from two decidedly different perspectives: The website is working much b...
