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Health, Food, Nutrition & Hibiscus Tea News Archive13-Feb-2007
- 'Lawmaker's bill would mandate nutrition data on fast-food menus (Tucson Citizen)
Chain restaurant menus would have to list calories, levels of trans fat and sodium content of their burgers, burritos, fries and other offerings under a bill proposed by a state senator from Yuma.
- 'Ease of fast-food access tips scales to poor health (San Diego Daily Transcript via Yahoo! News)
Most people walking around San Diego these days would probably say they are in decent -- if not pretty good -- shape. According to a new report from Men's Fitness magazine, however, San Diego is one of the fattest cities in America.
- 'Improving Food Security in Uganda (Scoop.co.nz)
The United Nations Children?s Fund (UNICEF), the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have announced plans to conduct a three-year joint programme in north-eastern Uganda to combat food insecurity and improve residents? nutrition.
- 'Health Briefs (Daily Southtown)
The National Woman's Heart Day Health Fair will be held from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Chicago's Merchandise Mart. The free event, sponsored by the nonprofit Sister to Sister group, will include heart screenings, counseling, medical panel discussions, healthy heart cooking and fitness demonstrations.
- 'State Cuts Could Shut Down Local Health Program (WPBN Traverse City)
The Women, Infants and Children nutrition program, or WIC, in Grand Traverse County helps more than two-thousand families get food and medical treatment. Now budget cuts cut affect the program's ability to serve the community or shut it down all together.
- 'U.S. must step up food-aid funding -report (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters (Recasts, adds partnership and aid group comments; adds byline) By Missy Ryan WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - The United States, the world's largest donor of food aid, needs to budget more than a ...
- 'UNHCR-WFP team finds dire health conditions in Algerian refugee camps (AlertNet)
Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR specialists have highlighted dire health conditions in Algerian camps for Sahrawi refugees. The experts made the findings during a joint food assessment mission with officials from the World Food Programme
- 'U.S. must step up food-aid funding: report (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
The United States, the world's largest donor of food aid, needs to budget more than a proposed $1.2 billion a year to fight hunger effectively around the world, an anti-hunger coalition recommended on Monday.
- 'The ?complete food? as disease fighter (INQ7.net)
Milk is said to be the complete food, especially for children. Health advocates believe it can be made even better by fortifying it with micro-nutrients like zinc, selenium and iron.
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