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Health, Food, Nutrition & Hibiscus Tea News Archive15-Oct-2006
- 'Nutrition body seeks support of LGUs for 10-year program (Sun Star)
NUTRITION Council regional head Ma. Teresa Ungson and Davao City Nutrition chief Venus Millana urged private sector and local government units concerned to support the 10-year nutrition program of the Administration.
- 'Read between food-label lines (Poughkeepsie Journal)
According to an article published in a recent issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, people don't really understand the nutritional information or health claims on food packaging labels very well.
- 'Good health begins in our shopping trolleys (Belfast Telegraph)
Shock Ulster obesity rates have revealed we are now fatter than ever. But is the food in our supermarkets to blame? Health Correspondent Nigel Gould discovers the state of our daily diet from the contents of a typical family shopping trolley
- 'Health Canada Approves Second Martek DHA For Food Uses (Medical News Today)
Martek Biosciences Corporation (Nasdaq: MATK) announced today that now all of its DHA omega-3 products have been approved by Health Canada for use as food ingredients in most foods. The approval allows for per serving levels of not less than 8 mg and not more than 100mg of Martek's DHA. [click link for full article]
- 'Food makers sings 2 oz. bar medley (Contra Costa Times)
It's goodbye grease, hello greens for Wes Felton, co-founder of Oakland's Creative Energy Foods. Felton headed snack food company Granny Goose Foods for 13 years before launching the health-food processing plant in 1998.
- 'Consumer Reports Rates Online Nutrition Advice (Hartford Courant)
Tens of millions of consumers seek nutrition advice online, regularly searching for information about dietary supplements, food allergies and how to lose weight.
- 'Go ahead, judge a food by its cover (Orange County Register)
Walking through the supermarket, I wonder: "Have we made a complete mess of food labels? Should we really need a column (and a bevy of experts) to help us figure out the meaning behind the claims on food packaging?"
- 'Nutrition and health claims regulation adopted at last (Food Navigator)
13/10/2006 - Following months of wrangling and a last minute delay, the new EU regulation on nutrition and health claims was finally adopted yesterday by the EU Council of Ministers and looks likely to come into force next January.
- 'U.S. official educates on nutrition (Scottsbluff Star-Herald)
Who'd be the most important figure to visit Roosevelt Elementary on a Friday afternoon to educate students about food nutrition? Well, you might want to take into account the age of the students.
- 'Lifestyle vs. Breast Cancer (American Cancer Society via Yahoo! News)
Each year, we learn more about how a woman's lifestyle and health habits -- the kind of food she eats, how much she weighs, the amount she exercises -- can affect her risk of developing breast cancer. American Cancer Society experts Colleen Doyle, MS, RD, director of nutrition and physical activity, and Heather Spencer Feigelson, PhD, MPH, strategic director of genetic epidemiology, discuss the
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