By Hope Gillette.

Reducing the amount of fructose in a Hispanic or African American child’s diet for just 10 days can result in a dramatic decrease of liver fat, states a new study from Touro University, California. According to researchers, cutting back on fructose specifically from sugary beverages during those 10 days is enough to decrease liver fat by up to 20 percent.

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Health insurance giant Humana (HUM) and Weight Watchers International (WTW) have partnered to help employers improve worker wellness and battle the nation’s costly obesity epidemic.

The holiday glow behind us, the Big Game provides another great opportunity to get together with friends and family to enjoy one of America’s greatest pastimes. Surpassed only by Thanksgiving, the biggest game of the year has become America’s second biggest feast of the year.

In schools where trained chefs jazzed up fare, children ate more fruits and vegetables--and the schools themselves saved money, according to a study released online Monday in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.

Getting them to drink plain milk instead of chocolate milk was a much bigger challenge, however.

Researchers at Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health studied the eating habits of more than 2,600 third- through eighth-graders in two low-income urban school districts. The vast majority of the children were Hispanic, and their average age was 11 1/2. Trained chefs were randomly assigned to some schools to spice up fruits, vegetables and entrees with low-fat, low-salt recipes. In some of the schools, the project also experimented with how the foods were presented to the children in the food line.