IOM Report: Food Nutrition Labels Should Be Simple, On Front
The food industry should provide simple, clearly-worded nutrition information on the front of food packages, according to a new report from the Institute of Medicine. The information “should focus on the nutrients most responsible for obesity and chronic diseases: calories, saturated fat, trans fat and sodium,” The New York Times reports…
October 15, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: food-industry, food-packages, institute, new-report, oncalldiets, saturated-fat, should-provide, the-nutrients, trans-fat
Nutrition Rating Enhancing Front-Of-Package Nutrition Rating Systems And Symbols: Phase 1
Nutrition rating systems and symbols on the fronts of food packaging would be most useful to shoppers if they highlighted four nutrients of greatest concern – calories, saturated fat, trans fat, and sodium – says a new report from the Institute of Medicine…
October 15, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diet, food-packaging, from-the-institute, fronts, greatest-concern, most-useful, new-report, nutrients, nutrition, nutrition / diet, rating-systems, the-fronts, trans-fat
Mice Live Longer On Amino Acid Supplement
When mice are given drinking water laced with a special concoction of amino acids, they live longer than your average mouse, according to a new report in the October issue of Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication…
October 7, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: amino-acids, average, diet, given-drinking, metabolism, new-report, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, press, special-concoction, water-laced, your-average
