Apr 27, 2007 Tim McCullen drinks his morning pick-me-up at 3 p.m. Instead of black coffee, McCullen, who tends bar at The Goat in Raleigh, downs a couple of effect brand energy drinks when he reports for a shift that … Read more

Apr 26, 2007 High blood levels of omega-3 highly unsaturated fatty acids, found in fish oil, may help preserve thinking ability in the elderly, according to the findings of two studies published in the American Journal of Clinical  Nutrition. …In … Read more

Apr 10, 2007 CPC Fellow Philip N. Cohen was one of several expert witnesses to testify at a full committee hearing of the U.S. Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee at a hearing on “Closing the Gap: Equal Pay … Read more

Apr 9, 2007 Most of those companies would probably go out of business or those jobs would be shifted offshore, because that’s their competitiveness factor. Those firms are competing in a global marketplace,” said Jim Johnson, a professor at the … Read more

Mar 28, 2007 Last year, with the support of the Unilever Health Institute in the Netherlands (Unilever owns Lipton Tea), a panel of experts on nutrition and health published a “Beverage Guidance System” in hopes of getting people to stop … Read more

Mar 5, 2007 To the dismay of pundits and politicians alike, women in industrialized countries and elsewhere have been bearing fewer and fewer children…. According to Ronald Rindfuss, a sociologist, Norwegian women who live in towns with more day-care slots … Read more

Mar 2, 2007 It may be considered the most important meal of the day, but in the daily morning fire drill of getting out the door on time, breakfast can easily become an afterthought. … “You should be eating something … Read more

Feb 23, 2007 CNN’s interview with CPC Fellow Jane Brown is CNN’s “Most Popular Video.” In it, Jane discusses her book Media, Sex and the Adolescent. To see the video, click here: http://www.emailthis.clickability.com/et/emailThis?clickMap=viewThis&etMailToID=876402546&pt=Y Some media outlets may require free user … Read more

Jan 30, 2007 Light-skinned immigrants in the United States make more money on average than those with darker complexions, and the chief reason appears to be discrimination, a researcher says. …William Darity Jr., an economics professor at the University of … Read more

Jan 30, 2007 Dr. Robert Bohannon wants you in his world. It’s fast, upbeat, jovial and driven by caffeine — lots of it….[H]e developed a way to add caffeine to baked goods, one that eliminates the natural, bitter taste of … Read more