Tufts researchers report that the great majority of the meals Americans eat at fast food restaurants are of poor nutritional quality—85 percent of those consumed by children and 70 percent for adults.
Metabolic health in American adults is alarmingly low, with large number of people not achieving optimal levels of risk factors, even in low-risk groups.
Study researchers note that persons who are regularly active have lower rates of viral infections of all sorts and are less likely to have severe consequences if they do get them.
Changing your physical environment can substantially alter the way your body works—and impacts both health and fitness. If you’re gaining weight and aren’t sure why, check the thermostat where you live or work.
More than half of the parents in a study said they looked for “reduced sugar” products, but most didn’t realize that the natural sugar had been replaced by artificial sweeteners (also called “non-nutritive”).
Ultra-Processed Foods includes such things as sodas, candies, cookies, sweetened breakfast cereals, fish nuggets, packaged instant soups or desserts, baby formula, salty packaged snacks and many other products aggressively marketed to consumers.