A 100-calorie apple is now zero points in Weight Watchers PointsPlus plan while 100-calories worth of cookies or potato will clock up points. A recognition that has been around for over a decade with other eating plans, such as The Zone, Atkins and The South Beach diets…
Food allergy is estimated to affect roughly 1 in 25 school-aged children and is a common trigger of anaphylaxis, a severe, potentially fatal, systemic allergic reaction. Studies of children with food allergy indicate that 16 percent to 18 percent have had a reaction in school…
In a new clinical report, “Probiotics and Prebiotics in Pediatrics,” in the December 2010 print issue of Pediatrics (published online Nov. 29), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) reviews the evidence surrounding the use of probiotics and prebiotics for children…
The Washington Post examines development experts’ “mixed reactions” to the recent roll out of the State Department’s draft Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR), which would give USAID “a bigger role in running President [Barack] Obama’s two main foreign aid initiatives - health and agriculture…
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), researchers have captured pictures of the brain while patients experienced a pain stimulus with and without acupuncture to determine acupuncture’s effect on how the brain processes pain…
50.1% of European Union adults, and one in every seven children are overweight or obese, a report published today by the EU Commission and the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) informs. The United Kingdom has the highest rates of adult obesity/overweight in Europe, followed by Ireland and then Malta…
Health and environment ministers from at least 46 African countries concluded the Second Inter-Ministerial Conference on Health and Environment in Africa in Luanda, Angola on Friday, “with the adoption of the ‘Luanda Commitment,’ which lists the continent’s health and environment top priorities in the years ahead,” PANA/Afrique en ligne reports…
The majority of African nations will fail to meet the U.N. Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets related to water and sanitation, the U.N. Environment Program (UNEP) said Friday, Agence France-Presse reports…
Research in the Clinical and Experimental Allergy journal suggests that the use of paracetamol for infants may be linked to the development of allergies and asthma later on…
Food allergy experts from the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) are available to comment as the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) releases the Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Food Allergy on December 6…