Health, Food, Nutrition & Hibiscus Tea News Archive

'HEALTH AND NUTRITION: Doctors: Shake salt habit (The Charlotte Observer)

The nation's largest doctors group is pushing for new warning labels for food.

'Wellness policies target student health (The Times of Northwest Indiana)

Schools have traditionally concerned themselves with students' intellectual and academic well-being, will take a clearer stand on their physical health beginning this fall.

'Making sure our children eat healthy foods (Alamogordo Daily News)

The Child and Adult Care Food Program is federally funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture"s Child Nutrition Program. This program provides cash reimbursement to home day care providers who care for children in their homes.

'Health Ministry to recruit 2,500 midwives to implement Government's nutrition programme (Daily News)

COLOMBO: Two thousand five hundred new public health midwives will be recruited to implement the Government's programme of the distribution of nutritious food package to pregnant mothers, said Healthcare and Nutrition Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva.

'EU food safety agency to expand role in nutrition, health (Food Production Daily)

21/06/2006 - The EU's food safety agency said yesterday it would focus on increasing its role in monitoring nutrition and health issues across the bloc.

'Junk food socks school nutrition score (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Georgia rates a D- for giving students easy access to junk food, according to a national survey of school food policies released Tuesday by a health advocacy group. For a state accustomed to ranking last on SAT scores, there's a bright spot: Twenty-three other states got an "F" for more permissive policies. The Center for Science in the Public Interest report, which is seeking consistent national

'School meals: Virginia must improve nutrition policy (Bluefield Daily Telegraph)

While West Virginia is near the top of the list in a national report card ranking school nutrition policies, there?s room for much improvement in Virginia?s cafeterias.

'N.C. scores low on school nutrition test (The Charlotte Observer)

A nonprofit public health group has given North Carolina a barely passing grade of D in a new school food report card issued last week.

'Functional Food Task Force Meets On Latest Nutrition Research (Medical News Today)

Consumers, health professionals and educators are bombarded with research about the health benefits of certain foods. To help sort through the information, dairy industry experts recently gathered at the Functional Food Task Force meeting in San Francisco. [click link for full article]