Entries tagged with "health"

Chambers, Adhikari help train teachers in food safety at Olathe campus

Delores Chambers and Koushik Adhikari participated in a workshop at K-State Olathe to update science teachers on the latest food safety information.

Research says policymakers need to know more about obesity, causes

Policymakers have an important role in limiting obesity because the policies and laws they set can be catalysts for significant change, according to Kansas State University researchers.

$4.5 million research grant may lead to healthier children

Paula Peters and Sandy Procter will lead a seven-state research effort to improve children’s food choices and health and reduce obesity with a five-year research grant, valued at $4,500,652, from USDA’s National Institute for Food and Agriculture.

Graffiti for health, positive body image

To mark National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, students from SNAC (Sensible Nutrition and body image Choices) turned art into advice.

Schwartz, Sauer say new dietary guidelines realistic, dietetics program echoes strategies

Roni Schwartz, who teaches the next generation of dietitians at K-State, praised the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans released recently: “The report offers a pragmatic look at how we can make inroads into improving health…and make it sustainable.”

Purple sweet potatoes turn pie into possible cancer fighter

Nutrition scientists at Kansas State University could be accused of carrying Purple Pride to extremes. But the purple sweet potato pies they created for Thanksgiving were a practical application of research.

Three-week follow up: Haub down 10 pounds

Mark Haub reports that his novel diet of snack foods is having better than expected results.

Haub uses snack diet to debunk nutrition myths

After one week on an unusual health-defying diet, Mark Haub has lost 5 pounds. For a month, the human nutrition professor is eating high fat, high sugar snack foods to dispel some common beliefs about nutrition. One is that calories not specific foods cause weight gain and weight loss.

In the news: students publish, honored

Aging Initiative awarded to Pei Liu Pei Liu, a graduate student in the Department of Hospitality Management and Dietetics, has received $1,750 from the Peine Excellence for Aging Initiative for her proposal, “Perceived availability of and attitudes toward healthy food choices in assisted-living facilities.” Stull wins award for research abstract Valerie Stull has been named [...]

Jen Case studies athletes weight goals, suggests high protein diets

From starvation diets to sauna suits, athletes in sports like mixed martial arts, wrestling and boxing often to go unhealthy extremes to meet their weight class goals.