http://www.pdqhealth.com Practical. Direct. Questioning. Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:15:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Move over Atkins. Step aside Scarsdale. The newest proven way to lose weight? Support public transport. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, Drexel University and the RAND Corporation studied the community of Charlotte, North Carolina, before and after a new light rail system for commuting was installed. Residents who switched to ... http://www.pdqhealth.com/2010/06/the-new-subway-diet/ Adults aren’t the only sugar addicts. Even many babies and toddlers are consuming more sugar than they should, according to a survey funded by the Centre for Science in the Public Interest Canada. A whopping 53 percent of the food products targeted to babies and toddlers analyzed by a team led by ... http://www.pdqhealth.com/2010/06/baby-sweet-tooth/ If you want to boost athletic performance and overall vigor, get to bed early, suggests a new study. Seven members of the Stanford University football team participated in the experiment, which was directed by Cheri Mah of the Stanford Sleep Disorders Clinic and Research Laboratory. All began the season showing signs of ... http://www.pdqhealth.com/2010/06/1887/ Forget heart rate monitors and body fat measurements. The best gauge of fitness may be a tidy house. NiCole Keith, an associate professor of physical education at Indiana University, set out to examine how physical activity is influenced by a range of factors for city-dwellers. Her study involved 998 people aged ... http://www.pdqhealth.com/2010/06/tidy-house-fit-body/ Maybe you don’t want to know. The Center for Science in the Public Interest has just released the shocking truth about the calories and fat grams you'll find in a menu's worth of popular restaurant dishes. An offer at one of the country’s leading burger joints, which has 550 locations in 35 ... http://www.pdqhealth.com/2010/05/xtreme-eating/ Brush your teeth and you'll cut your risk of heart disease, concludes a new study published in the British Medical Journal. Researchers have long known that gum disease is associated with increased risk of heart problems. The link appears to be inflammation, which plays a role in the buildup of cholesterol ... http://www.pdqhealth.com/2010/05/sparkling-teeth-healthy-hearts/ Got milk? Researchers find that exercisers who drink milk after a resistance workout are more likely to gain muscle and lose fat. For the study, a team at Canada's McMaster University asked one group of women to drink a tall glass of nonfat milk immediately after doing a resistance workout and then another ... http://www.pdqhealth.com/2010/05/a-milky-way-to-lose-fat/ Make that a double espresso. A slew of recent findings suggest that caffeine can keep our brains active and prevent age-related decline. The first hints that caffeine might have special powers appeared when studies showed that coffee drinkers are less likely to develop Parkinson’s disease, which is caused by a breakdown in normal ... http://www.pdqhealth.com/2010/05/good-to-the-last-drop-2/ Erectile dysfunction drugs may cause hearing loss, according to new research by University of Alabama epidemiologist Gerald McGwin, PhD. In 2007, the FDA began requiring more prominent warnings on Viagra, Cialis and Levitra after isolated reports of sudden hearing loss in men who used the drugs. The latest findings underscore those ... http://www.pdqhealth.com/2010/05/sex-drugs-and-what/ New mothers have long been known to suffer depression after the birth of a baby. New research shows that more than 10 percent of fathers also suffer prenatal or postpartum depression, according Virginia Medical School researcher James F. Paulson, PhD. The findings come from a meta-analysis of 43 studies involving 28,004 ... http://www.pdqhealth.com/2010/05/1859/