The second season of the crusading Brit’s healthy eating reality show, “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution,” started poorly when the city school district barred his cameras, a serious snag for a program that focuses on school lunches. The Los Angeles Unified School District, which previously had a bad experience with an unrelated reality show, more or [...]
Some breast cancer survivors fear that eating foods containing soy will increase the risk of a cancer recurrence, but new research suggests that those worries appear to be unfounded. “We did not see any evidence that soy intake after breast cancer increases the risk of recurrence or deaths [from breast cancer],” said Dr. Xiao Ou [...]
Binge eaters’ brains surge with dopamine at the sight and smell of food, a new study finds, priming the brain to see reward similar to the way drug addicts’ brains do. Researchers at the Energy Department’s Brookhaven National Laboratory say the chemical spike could explain compulsive overeating. The scientists looked at 18 obese persons–ten of [...]
