Pennington In the News
Below are a list of recent online news articles posted by world wide media outlets which cover the science and research at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center. All the links below are external links leaving www.pbrc.edu.
| Date | Title |
| 1/31/2012 | ww.theadvocate.com Dietitian: Fast food can still be healthy Whether the meal comes from a drive-through window or on a silver platter, eating out is a fact of modern life...Continue Reading |
| 1/30/2012 | www.reuters.com Calories count, but not where they come from: study Sticking to diets with strict proportions of fat, carbs and protein may not be more effective for people who want to lose weight and fat mass than simply cutting back on calories, according to a new comparison of four diets...Continue Reading |
| 1/27/2012 | www.huffingtonpost.com New Year, New Diet Confusion For those of us who have resolved to eat healthier and lose weight in the new year, that goal may have just gotten tougher to achieve. If you were already confused about what to eat, a study published on Jan. 4, 2012, in the Journal of the American Medical Association most likely set you in a tailspin. ..Continue Reading |
| 1/13/2012 | www.nola.com How to fend off those strong food cravings You could swear that Oreos truly do call your name, or that McDonald’s French fries really must contain some type of illicit drug, because they’re just so darn craveable...Continue Reading |
| 1/5/2012 | www.forbes.com Diets Differ in Effect on Weight Gain and Fat and Lean Mass A new study published in JAMA demonstrates the various effects of overeating of three diets that differed mainly in protein composition...Continue Reading |
| 12/28/2011 | www.discovery.com GET FIT: WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE IN SHAPE? With the onset of another year approaching, many people plan to renew their annual resolve to get in better shape. From there, the details get murky...Continue Reading |
| 12/1/2011 | www.usatoday.com Medicare anti-obesity initiative triggers treatment debate The decision that Medicare will pay for screening and counseling services to help obese patients lose weight has opened an old debate about who can best help people slim down...Continue Reading |
| 11/16/2011 | www.helpingyoucare.com 5 Healthy Lifestyle Factors Significantly Reduce Risk of Stroke, New Study Finds A new study of 36,686 Finnish men and women, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, a journal of the American Medical Association, has found that 5 healthy lifestyle factors are associated with significantly reduced risk of stroke. And, the more of these healthy lifestyle factors one practices, the greater the reduction in stroke risk, the study found...Continue Reading |
| 11/16/2011 | www.nola.com Louisiana child-obesity reduction sought State health authorities and Louisiana State University System researchers have set a target to reduce obesity among the state’s children by 20 percent over the rest of the decade. They are billing the effort as a long-range necessity for a population that consistently leads the nation in adult obesity and associated complications such as diabetes, high blood pressure, dangerous cholesterol ratios and heart disease...Continue Reading |
