More Food, More Often, Being Eaten Away From Home By US Kids

American children are eating more often outside their homes, as well as in larger quantities; they also continue getting fatter every year. Parents, health care professionals and nutritionists are turning their attention towards the consumption of foods outside the home, because this appears to coincide with the growing obesity epidemic in the USA…

Hiding vegetables in kids’ foods can increase vegetable intake

Preschool children consumed nearly twice as many vegetables and 11 percent fewer calories over the course of a day when researchers added pureed vegetables to the children’s favorite foods.

Eating Before Swimming May Be Dangerous, After All

It appears that people who go swimming on a full stomach really do have a higher risk of drowning, researchers reported in Medicine, Science and the Law.

Eating Location Increasingly Important Factor In Diet Of American Children

As childhood obesity rises and the American diet shifts towards increasing consumption of foods eaten or prepared outside of the home, concerns about the nutritional quality and the total consumption of such foods are also increasing…

Raw Meat And Poultry With Added Sodium Will Be Easier To Identify, Says USDA

The USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture’s) has proposed a new regulation so that consumers can easily identify which raw meats and poultry have added substances or marinades which may raise their sodium levels. At the moment it is hard to tell whether added solutions are present, says FSIS (Food Safety and Inspection Service), which is part of the USDA…

Chickens Help Raise Ugandans From Poverty

In the fight to improve global health, alleviate hunger, raise living standards and empower women in the developing world, chickens have an important role to play…

Gulf Seafood Tested For Safety

Government assurances that seafood from the Gulf of Mexico is safe to eat after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill are the result of a monitoring and testing program that continues more than a year after the April 20, 2010 disaster…

Statistical Press Notice: National Diet And Nutrition Survey: Headline Results From Years 1 And 2 Combined (2008/09 – 2009/10)

Today, the Department of Health published the combined results from the first two years of the National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) rolling programme (2008/09 -2009/10). The NDNS is a continuous cross-sectional survey, designed to assess the diet, nutrient intake and nutritional status of the general population aged 18 months upwards living in private households in the UK…

A Rich New Source Of Heart-Healthy Food Ingredients – Seaweed

In an article that may bring smiles to the faces of vegetarians who consume no dairy products and vegans, who consume no animal-based foods, scientists have identified seaweed as a rich new potential source of heart-healthy food ingredients…

Bon Appétit! Here Are Your Top 10 Best And Worst Foods In America

Well, the report is out and The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has published the best and worst foods in America. While many chains boast new “healthy” menus, they continue to produce the products that can eventually kill you if one indulges cravings too often…

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