MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with '5 a day'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:00:52 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4960350&cid=t_183462_167_f&fid=36994&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnutrition-news.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F06%2Fwhat-world-eats-shocking-photos.html : Very interesting look in photos at typical weekly shopping for families around the worldThese images are from the book 'Hungry Planet: What the World Eats' by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluision. It's an inspired idea, to better understand the human diet, explore what culturally diverse families eat for a week. Their portraits feature pictures of each family with a week's worth of food purchases. We soon learn that diet is determined by largely uncontrollable forces like poverty, conflict and globalization, which can bring change with startling speed. Thus cultures can move, sometimes in a single jump, from traditional diets to the vexed plenty of global-food production. People have more to eat and, too often, eat more of nutritionally questionable food. And their health suffers.Nutritioni... Healthy Eating and Nutrition News blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4960350 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:42:00 +0100 4960350 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4098505&cid=t_183462_167_f&fid=36994&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnutrition-news.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F10%2Fmeat-eating-kills-45000-each-year.html Excessive meat-eating kills 45,000 each year reports the Independent The Independent:A Dietry Judgement Day approaches.This time it's Oxford University who has released statistics that show it would be better for health and better for the environment if we ate less meat.The University study reveals lowering meat consumption in the UK would prevent about 45,000 premature deaths a year.Oxford University's heart unit analysed the health consequences of a range of diets.It concluded that eating meat no more than three times a week would prevent 31,000 deaths from heart disease, 9,000 deaths from cancer and 5,000 deaths from strokes each year, saving the NHS £1.2bn.Friends of the Earth, which commissioned the research for its Healthy Planet Eating report, published today, said reducing meat co... Healthy Eating and Nutrition News blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4098505 Fri, 22 Oct 2010 13:10:00 +0100 4098505 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3283849&cid=t_183462_167_f&fid=36994&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnutrition-news.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F02%2Fforks-over-knives-official-movie.html This could be the one. There's been lots of films in the last few years trying to tackle the issues surrounding the epidemic of Chronic Disease in the West that is now starting to take hold in the far East. Most of them have been a little too earnest for general consumption, too many excuses for Doctors to be dismissive.This film could be different.Here we have a clinician and a scientist jointly presenting their evidence to argue that heart disease, cancer and diabetes is more a choice than an inheritance.The problem is how to get those most in need to realise they have a choice for optimum health.Better diet and health is not profitable enough for global corporations - there will be no Pharmaceutical company investing millions of Dollars of PR, advertising and Lobbyists' time on this Nat... Healthy Eating & Nutrition News blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3283849 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:48:00 +0100 3283849 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2782339&cid=t_183462_167_f&fid=36994&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnutrition-news.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fkate-moss-spotty-fashion.html Worse for wear Kate Moss at Men of the Year awards | Mail OnlineCroydon Girl Kate Moss seems to have come out in sympathy with her home town, the unhealthiest borough in London. Wearing this party seasons latest face it looks like she could do with the same advice dished out to Croydon Councilors today - have a 5 a day day!Nutrition LondonNutritionists London (Source: Healthy Eating & Nutrition News) Healthy Eating & Nutrition News blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2782339 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:58:00 +0100 2782339 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2448214&cid=t_183462_167_f&fid=36994&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnutrition-news.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F06%2Ftomato-pill-beats-heart-disease.html BBC NEWS | Health | Tomato pill beats heart diseaseWhy would you want to eat more fruit and vegetables a day when you can just take a pill?Because there's not £££ millions of pounds to made from eating more fruit and vegetables?Fresh fruit and vegetables have a multitude of immune boosting nutrients in them all working in synergy and with very few, if any detrimental side effects.Science is restricted by the the obcession to isolate one chemical, to find the one silver bullet. Consequently they still really don't don't 'know' why people who eat more fruit and vegetables are far healthier than average.To get a sensible answer to that question you'd probably be better off speaking to a good nutritionist (Source: Healthy Eating & Nutrition News) Healthy Eating & Nutrition News blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2448214 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:46:00 +0100 2448214 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1626037&cid=t_183462_107_f&fid=36585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FHighlightHEALTH%2F%7E3%2F336132424%2F This study therefore suggest that social approval bias might well be a substantial problem in the interpretation of nutritional intervention effects that are dependent on education and awareness to affect behavior change. The magnitude of this bias is similar to the intervention effects reported in many studies evaluating changes in fruit and vegetable intake (ranging from 0.93 to 1.25 servings per day). Thus, a major challenge facing nutritional intervention researchers is assessing true behavioral change based on self-reports from reporting bias. This doesn’t mean that health questionnaires are useless. Rather, it means that many people simply aren’t being entirely truthful when it comes to how many fruits and vegetables they eat. The authors suggest that, in large dietary i... Highlight HEALTH blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1626037 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:30:18 +0100 1626037 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1455330&cid=t_183462_167_f&fid=36994&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnutrition-news.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F01%2Fuk-top-10-fruit-and-veg.html BRITS SAY CHIPS BUT NO PEAS PLEASE, SURVEY REVEALS : A survey by the Health Food Manufacturers Association has revealed only 14% of UK adults eat the recommended 5 fruit and vegetables per day and most people (66%) mistakenly believe potatoes can count as one portion towards the daily count of five fruit and veg per day.Nutritionist, London, Yvonne Bishop-Weston from London Nutritionists Foods for Life says " The 5 a day figure is already artificially low to appear more achievable. The actual consumption to attain optimal health should be more like 3 fruit and 5 vegetables per day. Healthy eaters should also aim for a variety of colours"The survey also revealed that it's no longer an apple thought to keeps the Doctor away. It's bananas that now appear to be the nation's favourite fruit. He... Healthy Eating & Nutrition News blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1455330 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:23:00 +0100 1455330