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Health, Food, Nutrition & Hibiscus Tea News Archive30-Nov-2006
- 'Protein Shakes Good or Bad? (The Jamaica Observer)
Forget the pills, protein shakes have become the new fad in low-carb dieting - flooding supermarket shelves and health food stores, and they have even crept into pharmacies and constitute a major part of the offerings at nutrition clubs.
- 'Gov't urged to hike junk-food prices (Vancouver Province)
Should there be a special tax on junk food? BRITISH COLUMBIA - B.C.'s government is being urged to strike a blow against childhood obesity by engineering a hike in junk-food prices.
- 'The wine diet, day 3: revealed - the food fads that damage your health (Daily Telegraph)
Prof Roger Corder explodes myths about low-fat diets, fibre and drinking lots of water .
- 'B.C urged to tax junk-food snacks (CBC British Columbia)
The provincial government is being urged by the legislature's health commitee to start charging sales tax on snack food, as part of an effort to reduce childhood obesity.
- 'Bertini to Receive 2007 Gene White Lifetime Achievement Award for Child Nutrition (Market Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
Catherine Bertini, whose influence and contributions to child nutrition have spanned the past twenty years, has been selected to receive the 2007 Gene White Lifetime Achievement Award for Child Nutrition.
- 'Maple Leaf Foods Launches Formal Process to Divest its Animal Nutrition Business (Grainnet.com)
Toronto, ON-- Maple Leaf Foods (MFI: TSX) announced Nov. 30 that it has retained RBC Capital Markets as its financial advisor to assist in the divestiture of Maple Leaf Animal Nutrition and related businesses.
- 'CDC Aims Message at Itself, Upgrades Campus Food, Gym (RedNova)
By Mike Stobbe ATLANTA - For decades, the nation's top public health agency has promoted exercise and healthy eating - and offered its own employees high-fat cafeteria food and a lackluster fitness center. But no more.
- 'LGUs paying more focus on nutrition (Mindanao Times)
LOCAL government units in Mindanao are redirecting their efforts to improve the standard of nutrition among their constituents after the Food and Nutrition Research Institute survey indicated a low reduction of malnutrition in the country.
- 'B.C urged to tax junk-food snacks (CBC via Yahoo! Canada News)
The provincial government should start charging sales tax on snack food as part of an effort to reduce childhood obesity, the legislature's health committee says.
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