{"id":461550,"date":"2010-03-23T04:30:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T08:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calorielab.com\/news\/2010\/03\/23\/yesterdays-health-news-from-labnotes-46\/"},"modified":"2010-03-23T04:30:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T08:30:02","slug":"lab-notes-the-last-supper-shows-portion-growth-over-centuries-polyunsaturated-fats-reduce-heart-disease-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/461550","title":{"rendered":"Lab Notes: The Last Supper Shows Portion Growth over Centuries; Polyunsaturated Fats Reduce Heart Disease Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On our Lab Notes<\/a> page CalorieLab’s editors select and rank the day’s essential health news items in real time. Readers can suggest, vote and comment on items. Below are brief summaries of yesterday’s (March 22, 2010) Lab Notes items. To see today’s items, visit Lab Notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

1. The Last Supper Shows Portion Growth over Centuries<\/a><\/h3>\n

An analysis of 52 portrayals of the last supper of Jesus and his disciples shows that over the last 1,000 years portions have grown by 70 percent, bread servings by 23 percent, and plate sizes by 65 percent.<\/p>\n

2. Polyunsaturated Fats Reduce Heart Disease Risk<\/a><\/h3>\n

Adding dietary polyunsaturated fats can reduce one\u2019s risk of coronary heart disease by 19 percent, says a Harvard study.<\/p>\n

3. Eating More but Smaller Meals Doesn’t Burn Fat<\/a><\/h3>\n

A British study debunks the myth of eating six small meals per day, instead of three, to boost metabolism and increase weight loss.<\/p>\n

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4. Cosmetic Surgery Procedures Down in US<\/a><\/h3>\n

The state of the economy has negatively impacted the number of cosmetic surgeries performed in the US. But is the decline attributable to something else also?<\/p>\n

5. High Fructose Corn Syrup Prompts Higher Weight Gain<\/a><\/h3>\n

High fructose corn syrup accounted for significant weight gain in laboratory animals, when table sugar did not, according to a new Princeton University study.<\/p>\n

6. “The Witch” Three-peats in Japanese Eating Contest<\/a><\/h3>\n

Skinny 46-year-old Hatsuyo Sugawara, nicknamed Majo (”The Witch”), won her third straight crown in Japan’s championship eating contest for women, aired annually on the TV Tokyo network.<\/p>\n

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On our Lab Notes page CalorieLab’s editors select and rank the day’s essential health news items in real time. Readers can suggest, vote and comment on items. Below are brief summaries of yesterday’s (March 22, 2010) Lab Notes items. To see today’s items, visit Lab Notes. 1. The Last Supper Shows Portion Growth over Centuries […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4904,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4904"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}