A new study has shown that marketing techniques can prompt kids to eat healthier at lunch time. Researchers created banners and television ads with cartoon vegetable characters at elementary schools in a large urban school district. Students who saw the banners were twice as likely to select vegetables and three times as likely when exposed to both types of marketing techniques.
If you’re on a diet, Italian researchers said pasta may not be your enemy. They studied more than 20,000 people and found those who followed the Mediterranean diet, including eating pasta, did not gain weight. They found the diet helped contribute to a healthy body mass index and waist size.
Danish researchers have found that three out of four women starting fertility treatments will give birth within five years. More than half of the women had a baby as a result of their treatments but 14% got pregnant naturally. Almost 20,000 women were tracked between 2007 and 2010.
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1- Pediatrics
2- Nutrition and Diabetes
3- European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology
