Liquid calories appear to affect the body—and the conscious—differently than solid ones; we’re less likely to make up for the calories consumed in a beverage by eliminating calories elsewhere in our diet. So it’s little wonder that, as consumption of sugary drinks has ballooned, many organizations have set out to see that drink sizes be [...]
Sep 12, 2012 | Categories:Advertising, Brainsnacks, Health and Wellness, Marketing, Politics, Trends | Tags: Center for Science in the Public Interest, childhood obesity, health trends, Kick the Can, Life’s Sweeter challenge, liquid calories, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, obesity epidemic, PSAs, public health initiatives, soda war, sugary drinks | Leave A Comment »
If you’ve ever been put off by a high-and-mighty health nut, you’re not alone. A new study confirms that those who follow pristine eating plans—particularly when eating all-organic all the time—feel “self-righteous” about their “moral behavior.” Despite those drawbacks, organic foods have helped some family farms stay profitable in an age when agriculture has largely [...]
Sep 06, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Health and Wellness, Marketing, Trends | Tags: American consumers organic, American food sales, American survey, food trends, health food trends, health trends, nutrition trends, organic, organic foods, organic snobs, organic trends, pesticides, wellness trends | Leave A Comment »
Lena Dunham’s quirky HBO series “Girls” is inspiring lots of talk about female friendships. (And is it any coincidence that science says a woman should have three good girlfriends for optimum stress relief?) This is true both for humans and animals, among which female friends are believed to anchor the basic unit of social life, [...]
Aug 10, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Health and Wellness, Trends | Tags: animal psychology, animal science, baboons, elephants, female friendship, frenemies, friendship, friendship trends, girlfriends, girls, Girls show, HBO Girls, health trends, humans, lions, primatologist, psychology, romance, science, stress | Leave A Comment »
Looking for more than just a place to rest their weary heads, today’s sleep-deprived vacationers are after the most restorative trip possible. Enter sleep tourism as the next big offering at hotels, spas, even nightclubs. In Paris, the Zen Bar—“Europe’s first nap bar”—dishes up zero-gravity chairs and massage beds, while rooms at the Hotel Gabriel [...]
Jul 20, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Health and Wellness, Marketing, Trends | Tags: Grand Resort Bad Ragaz Switzerland, health trends, Hotel Gabriel Paris Marais, insomnia, Milestone Hotel London, nap bar, sleep diagnostics, sleep spa, sleep tourism, sleep vacation, sleeping trends, sound sleep experience, the Zen Bar, travel trends, vacation trends | Leave A Comment »
In less than a decade’s time, the number of American teens with type 2 diabetes or prediabetes has risen from 9 percent to 23 percent. Researchers have concluded that these teens, especially when overweight or obese, are primed to suffer cardiovascular disease later in life. Furthermore, overweight teens with diabetes—also known as “diabesity”—have more trouble [...]
Jul 09, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Health and Wellness, Trends, Youth | Tags: cardiovascular health, diabesity, diabetes, diabetes America, diabetes teens, England Department of Health, health trends, juvenile diabetes, obesity, overweight teens, prediabetes, type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes | Leave A Comment »
Though plasma donation has practically become a business exchange stateside, the concept of blood for money (or, you know, plasma) doesn’t sit well with many in the U.K. However, with young people increasingly opting out of blood donation and the demand ballooning—especially as the U.K. preps for the Olympics and its 1.2 million expected tourists—Europeans [...]
Jun 20, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Health and Wellness, Social Media, Trends | Tags: America, blood, blood donation trends, blood donations, Chen Zhu, China, Chinese health, Facebook, Facebook organ donation status, health trends, healthcare trends, Olympics, organ donation trends, organ donations, organs, plasma, plasma donations, Social Media, U.K., U.S. | Leave A Comment »
A Chicago emergency room doctor recently treated a woman who believed she had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The Internet told her so. What she actually had: the common cold. With eight in 10 Americans now logging on to suss out health information, this variety of self-diagnosis has garnered the nickname “cyberchondria”—fitting, as 90 percent of us acknowledge [...]
Mar 14, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Health and Wellness, Trends | Tags: attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, cyberchondria, fibryomyalgia, Generation X, Google medical diagnosis, health trends, healthcare, lactose intolerance, lupus, manic depressive, medical trends, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, psychology, self-diagnosis | Leave A Comment »
As if you didn’t already have enough incentive to exercise (see studies that show that exercise boosts brainpower among the elderly, improves memory and learning in children, reduces anxiety and saves the chronically ill money on medication), now there’s even more reason not to squander your gym membership. The Gym-Pact iPhone app pays users every [...]
Mar 13, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Health and Wellness, Trends | Tags: anxiety and exercise, Anytime Fitness, doctors prescribe exercise, exercise, exercise trends, fitness trends, Gym-Pact, health trends, wellness trends, workplace wellness | Leave A Comment »
Obesity rates the world over have doubled in the past 30 years, and along with so many expanding waistlines we’ve seen weight-loss methods fluctuate in popularity (most recently, studies show that starving yourself every other day and switching to diet drinks leads to fewer pounds). Diet books, pills and plans have come and gone, but [...]
Mar 08, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Health and Wellness, Trends | Tags: diet drinks, diet trends, dieting, exercise, health trends, hormones, nutrition trends, obese children, obesity, psychology of weight loss, weight loss, weight loss advice, weight loss trends, weight management | Leave A Comment »
Believe it or not, there’s such a thing as healthy narcissism. Characterized by high self-esteem and a major desire for authority, it’s tolerable, sometimes even helpful. And then there’s unhealthy narcissism, the variety that gives a person an inhuman sense of entitlement and the willingness to exploit others. A new study has determined that unhealthy [...]
Feb 28, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Trends | Tags: anxiety, CEOs, cortisol, employees, health trends, Madonna, narcissism, narcissistic CEOs, Newt Gingrich, psychology, research, science, stress, yoga | Leave A Comment »
Measles wreaked havoc in Europe this year with 26,000 cases and nine deaths. A public health official there says she blames the epidemic on ever-lower vaccination rates as more parents grow skeptical about the rumored side effects of some immunizations. Last year in California, 10 infants died in a pertussis outbreak (only one of the [...]
Jan 06, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Health and Wellness, Trends | Tags: Australia, babies, California, children, China, communicable diseases, diseases, epidemics, Europe, health trends, immunizations, pharmaceutical companies, public health, vaccinations, vaccines | Leave A Comment »
