Health, Food, Nutrition & Hibiscus Tea News Archive

'Study Forecasts to 2011 for Health and Wellness - Packaged Food Market in Norway (Centre Daily Times)

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c90543) has announced the addition of Euromonitor International's new report: Health and Wellness - Packaged Food in Norway to their offering.

'Food Crisis Erases Ethiopians' Gains; Risks Health (Bloomberg via Yahoo! News)

May 2 (Bloomberg) -- Shagay Shanko and her husband left a struggling family farm in southern Ethiopia 12 years ago to seek work in the nation's capital. The couple found construction jobs that paid $2 a day, enough to add meat to their diet.

'UCLA study links poor health to fast-food neighbors (Los Angeles Times)

Higher rates of diabetes, obesity occur in areas where fast-food restaurants and convenience stores greatly outnumber grocery stores, researchers say. Higher rates of diabetes and obesity occur in neighborhoods -- regardless of the residents' income, race or ethnicity -- where fast-food restaurants and convenience stores greatly outnumber grocery stores and produce vendors, according to a ...

'Improve diet, health without making food an issue (The Herald-Mail)

Fast food restaurants are offering low-calorie, low-fat choices, but there's no guarantee that children, teens or others with or without a weight problem will choose them. It is important to help young people make the connection between food, nutrition, energy and health.

'Health group urges overhaul of US food safety system (CIDRAP)

Apr 30, 2008 (CIDRAP News) ? Calling the US food safety system antiquated and disjointed, a public health advocacy group today urged a major overhaul to make the system stronger, more coherent, and better attuned to today's major threats.

'Health Department director bans junk food (Northwest Florida Daily News)

PANAMA CITY ? A county health department employee has accused director Jason Newsom of being a danger to doughnuts. In an e-mail complaint sent to the media and Florida Surgeon General Ana Viamonte Ros, the anonymous staff member wrote that Newsom is so ?obsessed? with nutrition that he has alienated much of his staff by constantly harping on unhealthy foods. Among the litany of complaints: He ...

'Nutrition Program Spurns Bottles, Cans With Chemical (Washington Post)

Howard County is eliminating plastic baby bottles and other items containing a controversial chemical from a federally funded nutrition program operated through county offices, health officer Peter Beilenson said yesterday.

'What?s in your food? (University of Washington Daily)

Photo by Cliff Despeaux. The ASUW Student Senate recently passed a resolution in support of a campus food nutrition Web site. Nutritional information has been collected over the past year, but according to HFS it will take as long as six years for the information to be posted online.