Office of Health Education & Promotion

Nutrition in the News

New research and nutrition news we think is important to UNH students.

Perceptions: Watch Your Weight, Sure, but Don't Worry About It
Worrying about weighing too much may be bad for you, no matter how much you actually weigh.
Starving Themselves, Cocktail in Hand
The latest entry in the lexicon of food-related ills is drunkorexia, shorthand for a disturbing blend of behaviors: self-imposed starvation or bingeing and purging, combined with alcohol abuse.
Importance of Vitamin D During the Winter
The reason is vitamin D, an essential nutrient produced in abundance by skin exposed to the sun's rays. Long dismissed as being important mainly for strong bones, the so-called sunshine vitamin is now recognized as a key player throughout the body, including the immune system.
8 Foods You Should Eat Everyday From spinach to oats, read more about foods that will make you feel good and improve your health.

Beyond Balco: The Untold Dietary Supplement Scandal
WARNING: If you think only home-run kings juice it before they jack it, try this on for size: your muscle supplements might contain designer steroids, too.
The Rising Costs of Students’ Healthy Diet
Healthy food choices are far from the thoughts of penny-pinching, snack-grabbing, money cautious students who are simply too busy to prepare home cooked meals.
News You Can Use: Regulating Your Saccharin (Artificial Sweetner) Intake
With Saccharin's Weight-Control Benefits in Question, What Steps Can You Take?
Your Heart May Have a Sweet Tooth
Whether or not you subscribe to this sugarcoated view of nutrition, make no mistake: Chocolate not only can win hearts this Valentine's Day, but there's increasing evidence to suggest that it may help mend them, too.
Give Yourself a Diet Makeover
Is your body screaming for a nutritional makeover? Or perhaps your diet plan includes one excuse after another for how it did not, could not and would not work. If so, here are a few ideas from experts.

Celebrate Healthy Weight Week
Healthy Weight Week (January 20-26) reminds people of the value of a healthy non-diet lifestyle and helps them move ahead to improving their health in positive ways. It celebrates normal habits that prevent eating and weight problems, rather than intensifying them.
The Claim: Too Much Cola Can Cause Kidney Problems
Colas contain high levels of phosphoric acid, which has been linked to kidney stones and other renal problems.

Low-Fat Diet Cuts Risk of Ovarian Cancer
A low-fat diet may protect women from ovarian cancer, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
Fruits & Veggies—More Matters
Initiative to encourage Americans to consume more fruits and vegetables is announced by Produce for Better Health Foundation (PBH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Health Services Wants You to Get More Fruits and Vegetables
In support of the More Matter campaign, Health Services launches new Web site.
7 Secretly Health Foods
Some foods get a bad rap even when they don't deserve it. We lift the lid on seven foods that are better for you than you might think.
Sneak in Veggies with Sweet Potatoes
Adding sweet potatoes to pancakes is a great way to incorporate more vegetables -- and more vitamin A and fiber -- into your day.
Good for You Bad for You
Coffee can be good for you in moderation.