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Food & NutritionBriefs PostedBy Judy McBride January 22, 2001The Agricultural Research Service
has posted the January 2001 issue of the Food & Nutrition Research Briefs
to its web site at: http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/np/fnrb/fnrb101.htm
The Research Briefs is a quarterly newsletter containing the latest ARS
findings in human nutrition, food freshness and safety, and new foods and
varieties. Included in this issue: - A generation of "TV-dinner" kids might be learning poor eating
habits. Overweight children in a Houston-area survey reported eating 50 percent
of their dinner meals in front of the television, compared to just 35 percent
by normal-weight children.
- Parents who tightly control what their children eat actually might be
promoting a preference for "off limit" foods and a less-than-healthy
relationship with food.
- Older people may regain some of their youthful resting metabolic rate and
get off the slow boat to obesity by regular muscle-building exercises.
- The potential of different lines of broccoli to stimulate a key enzyme that
may protect against certain cancers can vary greatly.
ARS is the chief scientific agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Contact:Judy McBride, ARS Information Staff, Beltsville, Md.,
phone(301) 504-1628, fax (301) 504-1641, [email protected]. U.S. Department of Agriculture | |