Most Americans say they eat healthy, poll says
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Nearly 70 percent of Americans say they are careful about what they eat, and even more say diet is essential to good health, according to a new nationwide health poll in which
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NEW YORK  - Young adults who frequently make their own meals have much healthier diets than their peers who never set foot in the kitchen, a new study shows.
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Adults eat twice as many fruits and vegetables as they did when they were children and take in less fat and sugar, according to a new study.
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NEW YORK  - More than 5 percent of U.S. adults may have food allergies, and many of them say food labels make it hard to protect themselves, according to a government study.
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Just over 44 percent of Americans use at least one prescription drug, and nearly 17 percent take at least three, according to a US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey released Thursday.
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By Kathleen Doheny, HealthDay Reporter    HealthDayNews -- Gather together some diners who are trying to lose weight, then sit back and listen to the debate.    Almost anyone who's on a diet -- or at least one that's working -- is convinced his or her plan is the best...
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Most Americans say they're confident about the safety of prescription drugs sold in the United States, according to an Associated Press poll taken at a time when several popular medications have been linked to increased risk of heart attack and stroke.
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Oh, the irony. A nation full of overweight people is also full of label readers. Nearly 80 percent of Americans insist they check the labels on food at the grocery store.
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Most Americans read food labels to   help them decide what to buy but few people actually understand   what they're reading or consuming, according to two U.S.   studies published on Tuesday.
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TUESDAY, Dec. 5 (HealthDay News) -- It's no secret that American kids eat too much. Now, a new study provides some specific numbers that could help fight the obesity epidemic.
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NEW YORK  - The U.S. government recently   bumped up its recommendations for fruit and vegetable   consumption, and a new study suggests it's very likely   Americans aren't keeping up.
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Americans are already among the fattest people in the world and they just keep packing on the pounds. A new report finds that obesity rates have swelled during the last year in 31 states with not one state reporting that its obesity rate shrank. And, for the first time, more than 30 percent of residents in one state -- Mississippi -- are classified as obese.
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NEW YORK  - A one-year follow-up study of patients with heart disease found that few are meeting recommendations for fruit, vegetable and fiber intake, and they were eating a "disturbing" amount of trans fat, Dr. Yunsheng Ma and colleagues from the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester found.
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WASHINGTON - Utah remains one of the healthiest states in the nation, and it is getting healthier in many key categories used to measure overall health.
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Americans may be too fat, but at least their cholesterol is low. For the first time in nearly 50 years, the average cholesterol level for U.S. adults is in the ideal range, the government reported Wednesday.
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NEW YORK  - Consumption of a  Mediterranean-style diet appears to prevent metabolic syndrome  and improve survival, according to the findings from two  studies that appear in the Journal of the American Medical  Association.
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Thanksgiving dinner can be a healthy meal if the right choices are made. (AP Photo). By ALI MOHAMADI. Nov. 24, 2004 - If Thanksgiving dinner makes you want to throw your scale out the window, a number of nutrition