How much sugar do Americans consume?
This Sept. 15, 2011, file photo shows the nutrition label on a can of soda with the ingredient high fructose corn syrup, in Philadelphia.
Category Archives: Nutrition
Calcium supplements linked to higher risk for dementia
Food sources of calcium, including milk, cheese, ricotta, yoghurt, sardines, kale, broccoli, spinach, soy beans, kidney beans, lentils and figs . If you take a calcium supplement to stave off osteoporosis , you might want to consider eating more yogurt and spinach instead.
New Haven program aims to curb gap in food security
In order to make sure one less child goes hungry over the summer, officials and volunteers gathered Saturday to kick off the city's Free Summer Meals program. From June 27 to Aug. 26, low-income children 18 and under will be eligible to receive meals at 91 different sites throughout the city.
We should never have told people to start taking vitamins
Decades of research has failed to find any substantial evidence that vitamins and supplements do any significant good. And our obsession with vitamins masks a much bigger problem: That's the premise of science writer Catherine Price's latest book, " Vitamania ," which explores how the tiny, colorful pills transformed the way we think about food.
David Sarasohn: Fighting over lunch money
"I spent a lot of my time at my last school in Utah tracking down families who owed lunch money," he recalls, not exactly nostalgically. Welch has been able to think about education more lately because of a change in the school lunch rules in 2010, that allow schools with at least 40 percent of their students on food stamps or Medicaid to serve everybody free lunch.
Benefits of GMOs get collection of opinions
Other than being crops the majority of Americans consume and use daily, these items, unless certified organic, are genetically modified COOKE'S FOOD STORE and Pharmacy has its USDA Certified Organic produce in its own section. The store confirmed the locally grown produce, like Grainger County tomatoes, is not genetically modified either.