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FDA Should Expand Focus and Adopt Food Systems Approach to Safety

By Diana R.H. Winters on November 14, 2013

Want to hear something delicious? Recently the Food and Drug Administration reported that 12 percent of all U.S. spice imports were contaminated with non-spice-like objects, including whole insects and rodent hairs. As Americans, we are…
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Obesity Study Examines Gender Differences of 6th Graders

By News Desk on August 13, 2013

Eating school lunches and watching too much television are contributing to the obesity of Michigan 6th graders, according to cardiovascular researchers. The University of Michigan Frankel Cardiovascular Center came to those conclusions after studying data…
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Poor Dietary Habits Killing More Than Smoking

By News Desk on July 17, 2013

More exercise is not cutting into the nation’s high obesity levels, and unwise diets are killing more people than about anything else—including smoking, drinking and drug use. Those are among the findings of a new…
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Letter From The Editor: An Obesity Gut Check

By Dan Flynn on March 31, 2013

One of my favorite iPod apps is for Stitcher, which collects podcasts that I might be interested in listening to.  I must admit I favor either old time radio drama or history programing.  There’s nothing…
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Most Kids' Meals Served at Restaurant Chains Unhealthy, Study Finds

By Gretchen Goetz on March 29, 2013

More than 90 percent of kids’ meals offered by the nation’s chain restaurants fail to meet the National Restaurant Association’s definition of a healthy meal for children, according to new study released Thursday by the…
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Letter From The Editor: First Lady of the United States

By Dan Flynn on March 10, 2013

Why am I not surprised with the snarky comments made around the anniversary of Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign?  It was entirely predictable that if Mrs. Obama celebrated any success in her campaign, the classless…
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Obesity Cure Might Require a “Gut Check,” Say Chinese Researchers

By News Desk on December 20, 2012

What if all the while we’ve been blaming soda and junk food and inactivity for obesity, our guts were trying to tell us something else entirely? That’s because bacterium isolated in the intestines of a…
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Letter From The Editor: National School Lunch Program

By Dan Flynn on October 14, 2012

When I saw National School Lunch Week on the calendar for Oct. 15-19, it occurred to me there might be a straight line to be drawn between the past need to solve a national malnutrition…
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Three Studies Link Sugary Drinks to Weight Gain

By Gretchen Goetz on September 24, 2012

Three studies published in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine suggest that drinking sugar-sweetened beverages contributes to obesity, lending weight to the theory that capping sugary drink consumption – as New York City did…
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EWG Says Eating Well on a Budget Is Possible, and Here’s How

By Gretchen Goetz on August 21, 2012

Healthy food doesn’t have to be expensive. That’s the message of a new guide to eating well on a budget released by the Environmental Working Group today. The guide – “Good Food on a …
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