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"Together, We Are Feeding America"--New Feeding America and Ad Council PSAs Raise Awareness About the 1 in 6 Americans Facing Hunger CHICAGO, Oct. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "Together we are Feeding America" is the message of a new series of radio public service advertisements (PSAs) unveiled today by Feeding America, the nation's largest domestic hunger-relief organization, and the Ad Council. The PSAs feature music mogul and entrepreneur 50 Cent, best-selling author and...
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Breakthrough research in the 1960s that used marshmallows to assess a child’s ability to delay gratification has been revisited with a fresh, new updated study by researchers from the University of Rochester. In the landmark study from the 60s and 70s, researchers used either marshmallows or cookies to study the effects of child self-control. In those studies, if a child could hold off on the temptation to eat the yummy snack,...
ATLANTA, Oct. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Incentive Solutions, a premium provider of online incentive programs, incentive reward programs, business incentive programs and employee recognition programs, and all of its employees have recently begun a charitable initiative that pairs them with the Atlanta Community Tool Bank, a non-profit organization that supplies tools to assist the efforts of other non-profit, charitable organizations around Atlanta. Amber Johnson, the Director of...
Being obese at any age is commonly associated with a litany of health issues, ranging from diabetes and chronic fatigue to heart complications. Overweight adolescents are also at an increased risk of body dissatisfaction, social alienation and low self esteem, which is why Dr. Gary Goldfield, registered psychologist, clinical researcher at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute, and Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, University of Ottawa, set...
Connie K. Ho for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) recently discovered that an individual’s internal struggle to choose between healthy and unhealthy food items is based off of neural processes in the brain. The findings of the study were recently published in The Journal of Neuroscience. "We seem to have independent systems capable of guiding our decisions, and in situations like this one, these systems may...
NEW YORK, Sept. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actress, Toni Collette, and the international humanitarian organization, Concern Worldwide, are launching a campaign this fall to help make hunger history. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/award-winning-actress-toni-collette-joins-concern-worldwide-in-campaign-to-help-make-hunger-history-171350011.html "Food is such a basic, primal...
NAPERVILLE, Ill., Sept. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- After several difficult years, incentive travel programs have been undergoing changes for the better, as in bettering host communities, the people who live there, and the travel participants themselves, according to a new white paper published by the Incentive Marketing Association's Performance Improvement Council (PIC) titled, "Doing What's Right: Incorporating Corporate Social Responsibility into Incentive Programs."...
BOCA RATON, Fla., Sept. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Stacey Nottingham from Life Extension, an organization dedicated to the extension of the healthy human lifespan, will appear on The SUZANNE Show this week to discuss the effects of menopause on the female libido. Her appearance is one in a series of segments devoted to sexuality and desire, which airs on Lifetime Television. Most women experience a considerable decrease in their desire for sex after menopause, but according to...
PRINCETON, N.J., Sept. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With increasing pressure for accountability in higher education, outcomes assessments have been an important resource in evaluating learning and informing policy. Today, a report produced by ETS researchers titled "Measuring Learning Outcomes in Higher Education: Motivation Matters" provides evidence that simply modifying the pre-test instructions to increase motivation has a significant impact on scores on a commonly used...
CHICAGO, Sept. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Several members of the Feeding America Entertainment Council are stepping up and speaking out against hunger by taking part in a video call-to-action. The celebrities include multifaceted entertainer Nick Cannon, television personality Samantha Harris, registered dietitian and Cooking Channel host Ellie Krieger, Food Network and talk show star Rachael Ray, actress and television host Alison Sweeney, and music mogul and...
