Health, Food, Nutrition & Hibiscus Tea News Archive

'Nutrition class worth the 'weight' (Post-Tribune)

A new class in Kouts is helping children and teens learn how they can live healthier lifestyles. The group meets weekly at the Kouts Family Health Care Inc. to discuss nutrition and exercise, and work on the emotional aspects of weight problems.

'Milk from a healthy cow is cheap, safe and nutritious (Daily News)

COLOMBO : Surveys on child health for the past decade shows all too clearly that it is becoming more risky to ignore the impact of health, wellbeing and nutrition when making food policy. Ayesha Loku Balasuriya, maternity and child medical expert, stressed in a survey.

'New food pyramid offers signposts to good nutrition (Montgomery Advertiser)

The new and improved U.S. Department of Agriculture's food guide pyramid -- called MyPyramid -- is helping Americans, young and old, to better understand how to eat healthfully, dietitians say.

'Food labels not always forthcoming about trans fats (Everett Herald)

We've had the new trans-fat regulations for labeling of processed foods for a full year now. The Food and Drug Administration requires that packaged food must identify the amount of unhealthy trans fatty acids on the label. You should find trans fat listed just under saturated fat in the nutrition facts section of the product label.

'More fast food meals mean more excess weight (Reuters via Yahoo!7 Health)

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study provides the best evidence to date that eating fast food makes you fat.

'Fast Food Chains More Common In Deprived Areas, UK (Medical News Today)

There are more fast food chains in the poorest areas of Scotland and England than in affluent areas. Recent research from the MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit in Glasgow has found that there are almost five times as many outlets in the most economically deprived areas in comparison to the most affluent. [click link for full article]

'Child nutrition campaign 'fails' (BBC News)

India's programme to improve child health and nutrition has made little headway, PM Manmohan Singh says.

'Forget the junk food if you want to stay lean (Independent Online)

Most people know that too much junk food is bad for your health, but now there is scientific proof to support the theory that the more takeaway meals you eat, the fatter you become. Anne Harding reports...

'Plum Borough School District First to Implement a School Nutrition Breakthrough (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Z Trim Holdings, Inc. -- In a state so concerned with the health effects of obesity and weight gain in children that it measures and reports on the body mass index of each individual student, the Food Service Department of Pittsburgh's Plum Borough School District has found a way to prepare school cafeteria favorites that are healthier, making almost any food choice in the cafeteria the wise ...

'Getting a Leg (Or Shelf) Up on Launching a Healthy Food Product (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Magazines from Entrepreneur to Business Week have nominated "healthy food products" as a hot trend for 2007. This is good news for food consultants with nutrition expertise, as startups rush to leverage growing demand for tasty, healthier foods while trying to avoid the statistical reality of food business mortality.