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Overwhelmed by tons of daily diet advice? If only we knew which diet tips to follow.According to a new finding by a team of Cornell University researchers, dieters who focus on changing their surroundings find it easier to adhere to their diet. Understandably, they also report losing the most weight.The researchers, led by Brian Wansink, Director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab, presented their findings at this week's Experimental Biology conference in Anaheim, Calif.For the study, 200...

Organic snackers underestimate calories, study showsCould organic labels lead you to overeat? These labels certainly appear to make people think their organic snack has a lot fewer calories than it really does.These findings were presented at this week's Experimental Biology conference in Anaheim, Calif. They showed that people who ate organic cookies labeled as "organic" believed that their snack contained 40% fewer calories than the same cookies that had no label, according to...

Providing healthier food choices for our nation's schoolchildren is a hot-button issue in Michelle Obama's Let's Move campaign. And a team of researchers from Cornell University have recently identified one simple solution to help schools serve more fresh vegetables and salad items.Laura Smith, a researcher at the Cornell Food and Brand Lab, presented the findings of the study "Convenience Drives Choice in School Lunchrooms" at this week's Experimental Biology conference in Anaheim,...

Keep the pasta bowl off the table and eat 20 percent lessCan eating less be as simple as leaving serving dishes on the stove and off the table? According to a team of researchers from Cornell University, it can.At this week's Experimental Biology conference in Anaheim, Calif., researchers led by Brian Wansink, director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab, shared findings of their "Serve Here; Eat There" study of 78 adults."We looked at whether serving foods from the kitchen...

Almost one in three U.S. households shop on a budget "” and one in six can only afford basic necessities. So it's no wonder that 78 percent of budget shoppers "” twice as many as those who shop without a budget (37 percent) "” try to track how much their groceries are likely to cost as they roll through the aisles.But the harder they try, the worse they do "” overspending by as much as 19 percent, according to a new study, which was conducted by a Cornell professor and colleagues and...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Food for Your Whole Life health symposium, scheduled for June 6 and 7, 2010, in New York City at the Grand Hyatt, currently has limited tickets available for the public and for health professionals. The symposium is offering 12 continuing education hours for Registered Dietitians (RDs) and Dietetic Technicians, Registered (DTRs). Category 1 CME credit for MDs, PAs, RNs and NPs has just been added through Columbia University. (Photo:...

While Jesus and the Apostles have always been larger than life figures for Christians around the world, it is the food that they ate at the Last Supper, not the Biblical figures themselves, that have become larger in size and stature over the years, according to a recent Cornell University study.The research, conducted primarily by Brian Wansink, the John S. Dyson Professor of Marketing and of Applied Economics as well as the director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab, studied 52 paintings...

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The first symposium of its kind, Food for Your Whole Life will bring together internationally recognized researchers, clinicians, educators and health experts who will offer their expertise on age-based nutrition for optimal health and disease prevention. This symposium has been created to provide people with the information and tools necessary for achieving wellness throughout the life cycle. (Logo:...

Cornell study shows we pour too little or too much medicine, depending on spoon sizeA new study published in the Jan. 5 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine illustrates the dangers of using kitchen spoons to measure liquid medicine.Former cold and flu sufferers were asked to pour one teaspoon of nighttime flu medicine into kitchen spoons of differing sizes. Depending upon the size of the spoon, the 195 former patients poured an average of eight percent too little or 12 percent too much...

"Finish your broccoli!" Although parents may have good intentions about forcing their kids to eat cold, mushy vegetables, this approach may backfire the very next day, according to new research from Cornell University."We found that the more controlling the parents were about telling their child to clean their plate, the more likely the kids, especially the boys, were to request larger portions of sweetened cereal at daycare," says lead author Brian Wansink at the keynote...