Study finds 275,000 calls to poison control centers for dietary supplement exposures
U.S. Poison Control Centers receive a call every 24 minutes, on average, regarding dietary supplement exposures, according to a new study from the Center for Injury Research and Policy and the…
July 26, 2017 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: call-every, control, emergency medicine, from-the-center, injury, injury-research, new-study, nutrition, poison-control, policy, regarding-dietary, supplement-exposures
High Sugar Cereals Aggressively Marketed At Kids, Despite Pledge
Cereals aimed at kids are generally more nutritious now, but cereal companies are spending more on adverts aimed at encouraging children to eat less nutritious products, researchers from Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity revealed in a new report.
June 24, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: aimed-at-encouraging, aimed-at-kids, cereal-advertising, diet, more-on-adverts, nutrition / diet, nutritious-products, policy
Tufts Launches First-of-Its-Kind Nutrition Public Relations Certificate Program
Concurrent with the American Dietetic Association’s annual Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo, Tufts University’s Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy announced a new Nutrition Science and Communications for Public Relations Professionals certificate program…
November 11, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diet, dorothy, friedman-school, nutrition, nutrition-science, nutritional counseling, policy, school, tufts
Of Over 3,000 Kids’ Meal Combinations, Only 12 Seen As Healthy For Preschoolers
Despite promises to improve their marketing, a new study has found that preschoolers now are exposed to 21% more junk food ads on television than seven years ago – older children are being targeted with 34% more than they were in 2003, researchers from Yale’s Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity report…
November 8, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diet, food-ads, marketing, more-junk, new-study, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, obesity, older-children, on call diets, policy, seven-years