Health, Food, Nutrition & Hibiscus Tea News Archive

'Food diary: Behaving in Mexico (The Herald-Mail)

Editor's note: This is part of an occasional series about three Washington County families participating in a food diary program created by The Herald-Mail and Washington County Health Department.

'The Healthy Skeptic: Warning, Diet Soda May Seriously Harm the Health of Yeast (Blogcritics.org)

Recently the Food Police has set their sights on diet soda as the new health damaging, junk food boogie man. In May of this year a Professor Peter Piper performed a peach of a study that predicted that a preservative used in some diet soda ? sodium benzoate ? could promote pernicious persecution of our DNA. News reports providing details of this study hypothesized that the results of ...

'Nutrition: Calorie Intake May Affect Bone Health of Young Women (New York Times)

A new study has found that some young women may be eating so little that they endanger the health of their bones.

'Stakeholders meet for health claim discussions (Food Production Daily)

12/06/2007 - Stakeholders in the new European health claims initiative have met to discuss the technical and scientific aspects the European Food Safety Authority's (EFSA) draft guidance to applicants on the submission of health claims.

'News Categories (Yemen Observer)

Yemeni schools must do a better job of providing their students with nutritious food, said international experts at a recent conference on the effects of nutrition on health and education held Wednesday at Sana?a?s Movenpick Hotel.

'Health Highlights: June 11, 2007 (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)

Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:

'Ajinomoto to Buy Calpis Control for 82.5 Billion Yen (Update2) (Bloomberg.com)

June 11 (Bloomberg) -- Ajinomoto Co., the world's biggest maker of amino acid food additives, agreed to buy control of Calpis Co. for 82.5 billion yen ($678 million) in stock to strengthen its health and nutrition unit.

'Food Stamp Program Misses Many Poor in Maryland and Virginia (The Epoch Times)

While many poor are being aided by the federal Food Stamp Program and other federal nutrition programs, many eligible people, including millions of children, miss out and go hungry, according to a ...

'Uganda: World Food Program Receives Shs1.4 Billion for Karamoja Health Programmes (AllAfrica.com)

THE German government has given $850,000 (about Shs1.4 billion) to the United Nations World Food Programme to support mother and child health and people affected by HIV/Aids in Karamoja region.

'Buffalo's Food Fest Requires Healthier Options (First Coast News)

Nutrition Eductor Alice Jaglowski says the effort is a great way to bring attention to the problem of obese children in North East Florida.