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Topic: Foods

(Since these results are pulled from all sites, you may see some duplicate stories).

  • Mums Say NHS Maternity Services Are Good In Biggest Ever Survey, UK
    posted on 11/27/07 by
    Mothers have praised the good quality of care provided by NHS maternity services in a survey published today (Tuesday) by the Healthcare Commission. But the results also highlight specific areas of concern and wide variations between trusts in responses to questions about postnatal care, communication, food and cleanliness. Responses came from 26,000 women who gave birth in January and February 2007, making it the largest survey ever of maternity experience. [click link for full article]

  • FDA Issues Early Communication For Chantix
    posted on 11/22/07 by
    Background: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an Early Communication about an Ongoing Safety Review of Chantix, a drug approved as an aid to smoking cessation treatment. An Early Communication reflects FDA's current analysis of available data concerning these drugs and does not mean that FDA has concluded that there is a causal relationship between the drug and the emerging safety issue. [click link for full article]

  • Suicidal Thoughts Could Be Linked To Chantix Says FDA
    posted on 11/22/07 by
    The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued what the agency terms an "early communication" about a potential, but yet to be confirmed, safety issue with Pfizer's smoking cessation drug Chantix, where a number of postmarketing cases have reported patients on Chantix experiencing suicidal thoughts and related erratic behaviour. [click link for full article]

  • Global View Shows Link Between Endometrial Cancer And Vitamin D Status
    posted on 11/15/07 by
    Using newly available data on worldwide cancer incidence, researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) have shown a clear association between deficiency in exposure to sunlight, specifically ultraviolet B (UVB), and endometrial cancer. UVB exposure triggers photosynthesis of vitamin D3 in the body. This form of vitamin D is also available through diet and supplements. [click link for full article]

  • Expecting? Here's a book to keep you in balance
    posted on 11/08/07 by
    Enter for a chance to win this book. This week's contest is for all those women who are expecting. It's a guide to keeping yourself in balance while pregnant. It discusses the importance of diet and exercise, how to reduce...

  • Vitamin supplementation for preventing miscarriage: study
    posted on 11/06/07 by
    Miscarriage is a common complication of pregnancy that can be caused by a wide range of factors. Poor dietary intake of vitamins has been associated with an increased risk of miscarriage, therefore supplementing women with vitamins either prior to or in early pregnancy may help prevent miscarriage.

  • Avoiding Food Hazards in Pregnancy
    posted on 11/03/07 by
    With Thanksgiving and other parties looming large in the horizon, perhaps it's time to review the food rules to live by when you're pregnant. Is grandma's turkey safe? ...

  • Coalition's Guidelines On Fish Consumption For Pregnant Women 'Misleading,' Opinion Piece Says
    posted on 11/01/07 by
    The National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition's recent recommendations for fish and seafood consumption for pregnant and breast-feeding women are "misleading" and a "classic example of industry-driven marketing under the cloak of scientific research," Andrea Kavanagh, director of the National Environmental Trust's Pure Salmon Campaign, writes in a [click link for full article]

  • Infertility From Ovulatory Disorders May Be Prevented By Diet And Lifestyle Changes
    posted on 11/01/07 by
    Women who followed a combination of five or more lifestyle factors, including changing specific aspects of their diets, experienced more than 80 percent less relative risk of infertility due to ovulatory disorders compared to women who engaged in none of the factors, according to a paper published in the November 1, 2007, issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology. [click link for full article]

  • Changes To Diet And Lifestyle May Help Prevent Infertility From Ovulatory Disorders
    posted on 11/01/07 by
    Women who followed a combination of five or more lifestyle factors, including changing specific aspects of their diets, experienced more than 80 percent less relative risk of infertility due to ovulatory disorders compared to women who engaged in none of the factors, according to a paper published in the November 1, 2007, issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology. [click link for full article]

  • Soy Food And Soy Isoflavone Intake In Relation To Semen Quality
    posted on 10/29/07 by
    UroToday.com - From the 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine - October 13-17, 2007Isoflavones are plant derived polyphenoloic compounds with weak estrogenic activity found mainly in soybeans and soy-derived products. High isoflavone intake has been reported to be associated with decreased animal fertility. The impact of high isoflavone intake on human fertility is unknown. [click link for full article]

  • USA: Research Shows Teenagers Start Smoking To Lose Weight
    posted on 10/29/07 by
    Although smoking rates in teenagers has been down for years, researchers have found that girls are starting to smoke in the hope of losing weight.According to a recent study by the American Journal of Health Promotion teenage girls dieting during the two-year study were almost twice as likely to take up smoking than those not dieting. Conversely, the study found that teenage boys turned to cigarettes after attempting and failing at dieting. [click link for full article]

  • Problems with Your Prenatal Vitamins?
    posted on 10/26/07 by
    Out this week are the new Food Pyramid Guidelines for Pregnancy and Breastfeeding. You enter your personal information and it tells you guidelines for weight gain for each trimester as...

  • Women With A Family History Of Alcoholism More Likely To Experience Greater Sweet Preferences
    posted on 10/25/07 by
    More than 250 million women worldwide smoke tobacco. Compared to men, women have a greater risk of smoking-related diseases, and also have more difficulty quitting. A new study, the first of its kind, has found that cigarette smoking and having a family history of alcoholism have different effects on sweet-taste perception and food cravings.Results are published in the November issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research. [click link for full article]

  • Pioneering NHS Adviser Proposes A Radical Prescription For Health Care
    posted on 10/25/07 by
    A leading government adviser has proposed a radical plan to persuade people to stop smoking, take more exercise and change their diets. New figures published show that England tops the European league as the fattest nation in the EU. [click link for full article]

  • Women's Dietary Intake Study Ties Yogurt Consumption To Healthier Body Weights
    posted on 10/25/07 by
    Results of a 14-day study that followed the diets of approximately 3,000 women ages 19 and older illustrate a link between healthier body weight and better nutrient intakes with yogurt consumption. Research conducted by The General Mills Bell Institute of Health and Nutrition, Minneapolis, shows women who eat yogurt frequently are less likely to be overweight and more likely to meet their recommended daily intakes of important nutrients, such as calcium and vitamin D. [click link for full articl

  • Australia: New Research Shows That Smoking Increases Weight Gain
    posted on 10/24/07 by
    Researchers say they have blown away one of the last excuses of smoking, that it keeps them slim. A study by a team from the universities of New South Wales and Melbourne has found a few cigarettes a day may result in the body storing too much fat, not less. The research, published in the American Journal of Physiology, exposed mice to cigarette smoke and were fed either a low fat diet or a feast. [click link for full article]

  • Mass. aquarium houses pregnant anaconda (AP)
    posted on 10/18/07 by
    AP - Man-made rain and flooding, along with some extra food, were enough to convince the trio of anacondas at the New England Aquarium to breed in captivity for the first time. One of the aquarium's two female anacondas is confirmed pregnant by the lone male.

  • Did you take your prenatal vitamins--EVERY day'?? (BloggingBaby.com)
    posted on 09/07/07 by Wikio
    Filed under: Child Development , Feeding & Nutrition , Health and Safety , Pregnancy diet , Making a Difference Come on now, be honest. I really want to know. Doctors and OBGYNs and even ads in the subways are always strongly urging women to take prenatal vitamins EVERY day, before they get pregnant, while pregnant and afterwards if they're breastfeeding. For years and what seems like an eternity I was on the Pill. And I remembered to take it every single day--I was too scared not too. I didn't

  • U.S. agencies stick to pregnancy fish-eating limits (Reuters)
    posted on 10/15/07 by
    Reuters - The U.S. government said on Monday it was holding firm to its recommendations that pregnant and breast-feeding women limit how much fish and other seafood they eat and avoid certain types with high levels of mercury.

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