It’s fairly well accepted that eating less leads to longer life. An ongoing study of rhesus monkeys reinforces the idea that restricting calories means less chance of disease and extended lifespan. The results come from a study of 76 monkeys underway at the University of Wisconsin, soon to be published in Science magazine. Researchers allowed half […]
The other morning as I was walking my 9-year-old daughter to summer camp at the local recreation center she begged me to stop and buy her something to eat. She was hungry, she complained. Since she had refused the smoothie of fresh berries and homemade yogurt I’d made for her that morning, I wasn’t in […]
For the fifth year in a row, Mississippi lumbers in as the fattest state in the nation, but Alabama is closing in fast, according to a new survey by the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation. In Mississippi, 32.5 percent of adults–that’s one in three–are obese. In Alabama, the figure is […]
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