News tagged with food makers

Where's the salt? Hidden in your Thanksgiving menu

(AP) -- No need for a salt shaker on the Thanksgiving table: Unless you really cooked from scratch, there's lots of sodium already hidden in the menu.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Cigarettes will carry grisly new warning labels

(AP) -- Rotting teeth and gums. Diseased lungs. A sewn-up corpse of a smoker. Cigarette smoke coming out of the tracheotomy hole in a man's neck.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 15

Integrating agriculture and forestry in the landscape is key to REDD

Evidence from benchmark sites across the tropics is proving that an integrated, multifunctional approach that allows for land-use sharing in agriculture, forests and other functions can achieve good results in reducing greenhouse ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

FDA could analyze public health consequences of its decisions better

A new report from the National Research Council lays out a framework for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to systematically evaluate and compare the public health consequences of its decisions concerning a wide variety ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created May 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Wal-Mart gives boost to push for healthier food

(AP) -- Attention, Walmart shoppers: The food in your cart, from fruit drinks to salad dressing, may soon get healthier.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 20, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Too much salt: Report urges FDA to force rollback

(AP) -- Too much salt is hidden in Americans' food, and regulators plan to work with manufacturers to cut back - but the government isn't ready to go along with a major new recommendation that it order a ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 20, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Meltdown 101: Package sizes at the grocery store

(AP) -- Your eyes are not deceiving you in the grocery store. Yes, your bag of Doritos just got bigger. No, the price didn't change.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jul 26, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

NYC takes lead in setting next food target -- salt

(AP) -- First, it was a ban on artery-clogging trans fats. Then calories were posted on menus. Now the New York City health department is taking on salt. City officials are meeting with food makers and restaurants ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0