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Body Image/Self Perception: Training Our Brains To See Ourselves In A More Attractive Light

May 24, 2012
Researchers at the Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology have designed a programme called Mirate bien (Take a good look at yourself). It is a tool designed to enable us to learn to love our bodies and faces; and to improve our physical self-concept. Initiatives of this kind are routinely ...

Phthalates in PVC floors taken up by the body in infants

May 23, 2012
A new study at Karlstad University in Sweden shows that phthalates from PVC flooring materials is taken up by our bodies. Phthalates are substances suspected to cause asthma and allergies, as well as other chronic diseases in children. The study shows that children can ingest these softening agents with food ...

Phthalates in PVC floors taken up by the body in infants

May 23, 2012
(Swedish Research Council) A new study at Karlstad University in Sweden shows that phthalates from PVC flooring materials is taken up by our bodies. Phthalates are substances suspected to cause asthma and allergies, as well as other chronic diseases in children. The study shows that children can ingest these softening ...

Children’s body fat linked to Vitamin D insufficiency in mothers

May 23, 2012
(University of Southampton) Children are more likely to have more body fat during childhood if their mother has low levels of Vitamin D during pregnancy, according to scientists at the Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton.

Body Building, Diet Supplements Linked to Liver Damage: Study

May 22, 2012
TUESDAY, May 22 (HealthDay News) -- Body-building and weight-loss products are the types of dietary supplements most likely to cause liver injury, according to a small new study. Liver injury from medication is the main reason drugs are taken off the market. Dietary and herbal supplements -- which do ...

New optical microscope sees individual blood cells as they flow inside the body

May 21, 2012
Blood tests convey vital medical information, but the sight of a needle often causes anxiety and results take time. A new device developed by a team of researchers in Israel, however, can reveal much the same information as traditional blood test in real-time, simply by shining a light through the ...

Study Identifies Five Factors That Promote A Positive Body Image In Women

May 11, 2012
Women with high family support and limited pressure to achieve the 'thin and beautiful' ideal have a more positive body image. That's according to a new study looking at five factors that may help young women to be more positive about their bodies, in the context of a society where ...

Morinda Bioactives releases seven new Fit Body Composition Supplements

May 9, 2012
Morinda Bioactives recently announced the release of seven new Fit Body Composition Supplements, one of which is Fit Joint.

Overweight girls with body satisfaction less likely to gain unhealthy weight

May 9, 2012
In a study that examined the relationship between body dissatisfaction, body mass index (BMI) and binge eating in overweight and obese adolescent girls, Kendrin R. Sonneville, ScD, RD, researcher at Boston Children's Hospital, discovered that the less satisfied a girl is with her body, the more unhealthy weight she is ...

Mothers of overweight toddlers less likely to accurately perceive their child’s body size

May 8, 2012
A study of mothers and their toddlers suggests that mothers of overweight toddlers often had inaccurate perceptions of their child's body size, according to a report published in the May issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, a JAMA Network publication. The study is part of the Nutrition and ...

Cordoning off of lipids of the liver helps manage insulin resistance in the body

May 7, 2012
A Penn research team, led by Mitchell Lazar, MD, PhD, director of the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, reports in Nature Medicine that mice in which an enzyme called histone deacetylase 3 (HDAC3) was deleted had massively fatty livers, but ...

Dilp8 provides an important signal to slow body growth and delay insect development

May 5, 2012
Two independent groups of researchers have identified a hormone that is responsible for keeping the growth and development of insects on track. The results, which are reported in the journal Science, suggest that Dilp8 provides an important signal to slow body growth and delay insect development.