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If It Says McDonaldЙs, Then It Must Be Good

Hamburgers, french fries, chicken nuggets, and even milk and carrots all taste better to children if they think they came from McDonalds, a small study suggests.
In taste tests with 63 children ages 3 to 5, there was only a slight preference for the McDonalds-branded hamburger over one wrapped in plain paper, not enough to […]

Sniff test may detect disorders in early stages

Seven years ago, Robert Gesteland, a biologist at the University of Cincinnati, and his colleague Robert Frank, a psychologist, decided to tackle a perplexing topic: why some people are more open to trying unfamiliar foods. Suspecting that picky eaters might be more attuned to strong smells, they set about trying to quantify this.
“Someone turned […]

AP: Nutrition education ineffective

PANORAMA CITY, Calif. The federal government will spend more than $1 billion this year on nutrition education Д fresh carrot and celery snacks, videos of dancing fruit, hundreds of hours of lively lessons about how great you will feel if you eat well.
But an Associated Press review of scientific studies examining 57 such […]

Vital Signs: Mental Abilities: Caffeine Helps Women, but Not Men, Stay Sharp

The caffeine in three cups of coffee or tea a day may help maintain mental sharpness in older women, but caffeine consumption appears to have no effect in men.
French researchers studied more than 7,000 men and women with an average age of 74, following them over four years. They determined coffee and tea intake […]

Top exercisers of the ’80s still have all the moves

When aerobic dancing took off in the 1980s, exercisers went for the burn and sweated to the oldies.
Now a much wider array of fitness classes is available.
Three of the biggest names in aerobic dance and exercise, Judi Sheppard Missett, Kathy Smith and Tamilee Webb, speak Sunday at the IDEA Health & Fitness Association’s […]