Exercise is good for anyone, but especially for growing kids! However, if they recharge with juice boxes, cookies, chips and snack cakes, all that running and jumping end up useless.

It may be a good idea to keep children active through after-school programs, but not all after-school programs do well in providing enough exercise and nutrition teaching to children.

The Healthy Opportunities for Physical Activity and Nutrition After-School Project, or HOP’N), found many programs don’t provide enough exercise or adequate nutrition.  Researchers for HOP’N observed average after-school programs only provided 20 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity, falling short of the 60 minutes recommended, with a lot of kids just sitting…

Ever since kindergarten, our parents have always told us to “wash your hands,”  especially before eating or after leaving a public restroom.  But surprise, surprise: up to a quarter of us didn’t obey and still don’t—until swine flu came along.

Although swine flu is a negative phenomenon, it has yielded some positive changes on the health habits of United Kingdom residents.  Now, not only do they wash their hands while singing the happy birthday song, they also carry along a bottle of hand sanitizer or rubbing alcohol wherever they go.

A recent survey by TNS Omnibus found that out of 1015 British adults between the ages of 16 and 65, over half…

The Food Stamp Program or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is a federal-assistance program that provides assistance to low- and no-income people living in the U.S.  If you belong to the aforementioned groups, you can buy these food stamps, cards or coupons for US$1, US$5, and US$10.  With these, you will be able to purchase any prepackaged edible foods regardless of nutritional value (for example soft drinks and confectionery).  And that is exactly the problem with these food stamps.  All they can purchase are low-nutrition foods.

Isn’t it ironic that people on food stamps are the ones at increased risk of becoming obese?  But it’s true! A new study shows a…

How do you adhere to a “shake” diet? This article will teach you.

If you take a slimming shake and eat the same amount of food as you would on your regular diet, then you are doing something terribly wrong.  And that will explain why you are not losing weight at all.  Worse, you must even be doubling your weight.

First, you have to understand that shakes are meal-replacements.  So if you drink shakes and eat full meals, you end up doubling your calorie intake.

Shakes are not magic potions.  They are not anti-fat agents or metabolism accelerators, so don’t expect that they would work that way.  We repeat: shakes are meal-replacements.  You…