A smaller plate won’t help you eat less, says a new study that challenges a widely held belief.
“Smaller plates are often recommended as a way of controlling intake, but that simply isn’t an effective strategy,” senior researcher Meena Shah, a professor of kinesiology at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, said in a news release. “There was no plate size, weight status, or plate size by weight status effect on meal energy intake.”
The study included 10 overweight or obese women and 10 normal weight women who were randomly assigned to …

Women who eat about three servings of fish per week have a somewhat lower chance of having polyps found during a routine colonoscopy than women who eat just one serving every two weeks, according to a new study.
The research doesn’t prove that seafood protects against polyps, but it “does increase our confidence that something real is going on,” said Dr. Edward Giovannucci, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, who was not involved in this study.
A polyp, also called an adenoma, is a mushroom-shaped tag of …

Vitamins and minerals are essential to any diet, and research suggests they may help prevent cancer and heart disease, not to mention other health problems. But reality check: Many studies have been conducted on vitamin-containing food, but not necessarily supplements.
In fact, if you eat a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, and fortified food, you’re probably getting all you need. But supplements do offer an easy, just-in-case form of health insurance.
Do you need them? Here’s a quick guide to beneficial nutrients and what they can do for you.
Beta-carotene
Found in carrots, sweet …

While the percentage of obese children in the United States tripled between the early 1970s and the late 2000s, a new study suggests that – at least for middle school students – weight gain has nothing to do with the candy, soda, chips, and other junk food they can purchase at school.
“We were really surprised by that result and, in fact, we held back from publishing our study for roughly two years because we kept looking for a connection that just wasn’t there,” said Jennifer Van Hook, a Professor of …

A study by Italian researchers shows that the more people are informed by newspapers, television and the Internet, the more they stick to the Mediterranean diet, the healthiest eating pattern in the world
It is time to leave behind the belief that mass media are always a source of bad habits. Television, newspaper and the Internet, when used to get information, may turn out to be of help for health.
It is the conclusion of a study conducted by the Research Laboratories at the Fondazione di Ricerca e Cura “Giovanni Paolo II” …