Health, Food, Nutrition & Hibiscus Tea News Archive

'Nutrition Wise: Caffeine, Nutrition Counseling Insurance, Grits (Kansas City InfoZine)

By Karen Collins, MS, RD, CDN - Q: How many hours do the effects of caffeine last? Q: Does health insurance cover the costs of nutrition counseling? Q: Are grits a whole-grain food?

'Food Products Association Comments on FDA Draft Guidance On Whole Grains Labeling (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Commenting on a draft guidance document for whole grains labeling statements, issued today by the Food and Drug Administration , Robert Earl, MPH, RD, Senior Director of Nutrition for the Food Products Association , made the following remarks:

'Bush talks of health in speech at Wendy's / High-deductible insurance, tax-free savings proposed (San Francisco Chronicle)

President Bush talked about good health, and his plan to help America pay for it, for an hour on Wednesday at the home office of the nation's third-largest purveyor of hamburgers and french fries. Speaking in the lobby at the headquarters of Wendy's...

'Nutrition Q&A: Sunshine's not enough to give children vitamin D (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Q: I have a young child and worry whether he is getting enough calcium for strong bones. Is this the only nutrient I should be concerned about for bone health?

'Kits to Ensure Safe Delivery as Women Fail to Visit Health Facilities (AllAfrica.com)

Studies conducted in different parts of the country have revealed that the prevalence rate of anaemia in pregnant mothers is on the increase with some expectant women failing to make visit to health facilities because of weakness caused by poor nutrition due to the reigning hunger crisis, United Nations Food and Population Agency (UNFPA) representative Esparance Fundira has said.

'Nutrition Answers Just a Mouse Click Away (MedicineNet.com)

Title: Nutrition Answers Just a Mouse Click Away Category: Health News Created: 2/14/2006 1:58:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 2/14/2006 1:58:13 AM

'Norway envoy to open workshop (Deccan Herald)

Ambassador of Norway Jon Westborg is visiting Mysore on February 17 to inaugurate a two-day international workshop on bioactive peptides and their role in nutrition and health foods at Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) here.

'EFSA approves food supplement coating agent (Nutraingredients.com)

2/16/2006 - The use of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) as a coating agent for food supplements poses no health risks, according to a recent EFSA investigation.