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An easy fish recipe to help your heart
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Nutrition key to cutting infection rates
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Farmed or wild fish: Which is healthier?
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Does being vegetarian mean healthful eating?
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Food rating systems: A not-so-smart choice
When rushing through the supermarket, who has time to pore over Nutrition Facts labels and compare ingredient lists? That’s why more than a dozen rating systems have been established to help shoppers identify healthful products. (1) Some, like the Guiding Stars program in Hannaford supermarkets, put rating information on food shelf tags below various products. […] Continue reading
Taxing soda to slow the obesity epidemic
Adding a penny per ounce tax to sugar-sweetened beverages could slow the growth of obesity in the U.S.—and could raise billions of dollars for obesity prevention and other health programs, according to a new analysis by seven public health experts in The New England Journal of Medicine.(1) Continue reading
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Time to Focus on Healthier Beverages
Watch Dr. Walter Willett, chairman of the Dept. of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health, discuss the evidence that sugary drinks are an important contributor to the epidemic rise of obesity and type 2 diabetes in the U.S., as well as propose steps that families, government, and beverage manufacturers can take to reduce our […] Continue reading