The FDA has announced that it will propose before the end of the year mandatory and enforceable safety standards for the growing, harvesting and packing of fresh produce.
Get Consumer Updates by E-mail Consumer Updates RSS Feed On this page Linking Diet and Heart Disease Food Label Highlights Eating Habits More than half of consumers in the United States often read the food label when buying a product for the first …
I’d go to fast-food places and get a burger and fries. Now when I eat a snack, I make sure it’s healthy.
The National First Ladies Library … showed off her hula hooping skills to promote the benefits of healthy eating and exercise, the first lady hasn’t been involved in substantive policy debates about health care, even though before her husband’s …
Gallup and Healthways started collecting BMI data as part of the Well-Being Index in January of 2008 and surveyed in 187 metro areas in 2009. This is the first in a two-part series reviewing the most and least obese metro areas in the United States …
A Salem company has hit upon a sweet idea: making money from air.
In the almost 10 years I’ve been cobbling together this timely Christmas gift-giving wish list, never have I seen so many outstanding Canadian cookbooks as today. In fact, looking at the first recommendations in 2002, I notice 10 out of 14 suggested …
BEIJING, Mar 01, 2010 (Xinhua via COMTEX) — China’s youngest provincial Communist Party chief Sun Zhengcai has for the first time become a deputy to the National People’s Congress (NPC), the country’s top legislature, after the NPC Standing …
Transfats become a grease non grata at State. As one of 350 GSA managed federal cafeterias, the Department of State will have one of the first dining facilities with new wellness factors and nutritional requirements as part of its contract template …
That was the question we asked last week , wondering what our readers preferred to snack on while playing outdoors. It’s hardly a topic with dire implications, and a few of our readers let us know they simply weren’t interested. “In the first place …
