Obesity Epidemic Not Due To High Fructose Corn Syrup
A new article published in International Journal of Obesity found there is no evidence to suggest the current obesity epidemic in the United States can be specifically blamed on consumption of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). The commentary concludes that after an extensive review of all available HFCS research, there is overwhelming evidence showing HFCS is nutritionally equivalent to sugar…
September 20, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: blamed-on-consumption, corn-syrup, current, current-obesity, evidence-showing, hfcs, high-fructose, international, new-article, nutrition, nutritional counseling, nutritionally-equivalent, oncalldiets
MSF Calls For Donor Countries To Improve Food Aid Nutrition Standards On Eve Of World Food Day
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) released a statement in advance of Saturday’s World Food Day saying that the “world’s biggest donors of food aid … continued to supply and fund nutritionally ‘substandard’ food to developing countries, despite scientific evidence showing it was of little value in reducing child malnutrition,” Reuters AlertNet reports…
October 18, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: biggest-donors, despite-scientific, developing-countries, evidence-showing, food-aid, frontieres, little-value, medecins-sans, msf, nutrition / diet, on call diets, reducing-child, reuters-alert, world, world-food
