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UNICEF: Poor Nutrition Kills 6M Children
Poor nutrition contributes to the deaths of some 5.6 million children every year and the world has fallen far short in efforts to reduce hunger by half before 2015, the U.N. Children's Fund said Tuesday.
Connecticut Lawmakers Pass School Soda Ban
Connecticut's public schools will be banned from selling soda and other sugary beverages under a bill given final legislative approval Thursday.
World Bank Urges Fight on Malnutrition
The World Bank recommends that poor governments focus their limited resources on combating malnutrition among pregnant women and children younger than 2 because that is when irreparable damage happens.
Not Enough Fish in the Sea
Source: monbiot.com
Omega-3 oils are essential to good brain function, but they can only be found in fish and world wide fish stocks are dwindling very rapidly. It now appears that a strain of algae may solve this problem.
Retooling School Lunch
Source: time.com
How two communities are working to serve kids fresher, healthier food--and then actually get them to eat it.
Sunshine May Help Prevent Breast Cancer
Source: Harvard University Gazette
Evidence is piling up that boosting vitamin D intake may help prevent breast cancer. One major study of 1,760 women found that the higher the levels of vitamin D in a woman's blood, the less the risk of breast cancer.
The Monkey Chow Diaries
Source: angryman.ca
Can't be worse than McDonald's can it it? "Imagine going to the grocery store only once every 6 months. Imagine paying less than a dollar per meal. Imagine never washing dishes, chopping vegetables or setting the table ever again. It sounds pretty good, doesn't it?
Better portions, better food urged for restaurants
Source: theglobeandmail.com
A new report suggests restaurants should dish food and fight fat at the same time, meaning menus with more fruits and vegetables, smaller portions and better nutritional information ...
The World's Healthiest Foods: Feeling Great
Source: George Mateljan Foundation
How Healthy Nutrition Builds Health, Starting With the Cells (Graphics)
Stolen beer sold in school-by cafeteria workers
Source: theeagle.com
Two College Station school cafeteria workers were fired and another resigned after the trio was linked last month to selling stolen beer on the A&M; Consolidated High School campus, district officials said.
CNN.com - Special Reports - Healthy Bodies
Source: cnn.com
This is a fun and interactive series of reports discussing health via nutrition and other factors in America.
Pretend medicine: Let's play doctor!
Source: newstarget.com
Conventional medicine, as practiced today, is actually pretend medicine. Doctors and drug companies pretend to make patients healthier by giving them drugs. The FDA pretends to protect the safety of the public.
Mushrooms Are Unlikely Source of Vitamin D
Source: news.yahoo.com
Mushrooms are good for you in so many ways.
Colorado Governer Vetoes Bill Requiring Nutritious Food In School Vending Machines
Source: thedenverchannel.com
Colorado Governor Bill Owens vetoed a bill that required that half of the offerings in every school vending machine be nutritious. He reasoned that politicians should examine their own vending machines in the State Capital before trying to legislate what other people eat.
Organic Food Is Better
Source: seattletimes.nwsource.com
Short article about organic foods and USDA labeling. Despite the fact that shoppers pay, on average, 50 percent more for organic food, organic products are one of the fastest-growing categories in the food business.
Wake Up with the King... and a Triple Bypass
As a person in my early 20's, I've begun to take note of how amazing my body is.
Save 17,528 Calories Per Month Without Even Trying!
Source: WebMD Blogs
If it's as easy as giving up soda, latte's and sugary drinks, shouldn't we?
Relatively Deprived: How poor is poor?
Source: newyorker.com
"In New Orleans, the poverty rate in 2004 was twenty-three per cent, a fact that George W Bush noted in his address from New Orleans’ French Quarter on September 15th, when he said, “We have a duty to confront this poverty with bold action.” (Six months later, the Bush Admin
Oily fish may reduce prostate cancer spread
Source: news.yahoo.com
Scientists at the Paterson Institute at the Christie Hospital in Manchester, England found that omega-3 fats might help to inhibit the spread of prostate cancer during the early stages of the disease.
Every Time You Buy a Food, You're Voting with Your Fork
Source: The San Fransisco Chronicle
This lady is smart, political, and a foodie--I like her.
Report Warns Malnutrition Begins in Cradle
Source: nytimes.com
Nutrition education programs for parents would do a better job than large and politically popular feeding programs in fighting the rampant malnutrition that is stunting the development of more than 100 million children worldwide, a new World Bank report says, finding that a lack o
Heart-Stopping Entree at Ruby Tuesday Sports 400 Grams of Fat
My visit to Ruby Tuesday last night was the first in probably 10 years. Dinner was actually pretty good on both sides of the table, and the dessert I was coerced into splitting was even better.
Selling Junk Food to Toddlers
Source: nytimes.com
For all the talk about protecting children in America, too many of our youngest are threatened by a steady blast of industrial-strength advertising on children's television. Some ads, like those for toys and games, mostly threaten the family budget.
GAO-06-282: Breastfeeding in USA discouraged by infant formula marketing
Source: gao.gov
Breastfeeding: Some strategies used to market infant formula may discourage breastfeeding; state contracts should better protect against misuse of WIC name. GAO-06-282, February 8, 2006
Sports and Energy Drinks Hype or Healthy
Source: fitness-web.com
While there certainly is a lot of hype around sports drinks like gatorade, it looks like their is also a fair bit of science involved as well.
George Bush's assault on my colon
Amidst the usual mob of protesters and tear gas, WTO ministers met last month in Hong Kong to discuss – among many things – the crippling global affect of low-cost export commodities from the US made possible by mammoth farm subsidies.
Fruit and veg 'cut stroke risk'
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
Eating more than the recommended five portions of fruit and vegetables a day can cut risk of stroke, a study says.
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