Category: Food

Food firms to use imported powdered eggs

Major South Korean baking and confectionery companies will begin using powdered eggs instead of fresh eggs for their products starting next month, industry officials said Thursday.According to the officials, they plan to import a combined 400 tons of powdered eggs from China and the United States in February. The companies include food conglomerate SPC Group which operates bakery brand Paris Baguette, Lotte Confectionery Co., Haitai Confectionery Co.

5 Health Reasons To Eat Red Bananas

… Red bananas have a unique flavor, similar to yellow, but mixed with the taste of raspberries. They also provide more health benefits than the widely recognized, traditional banana. Tory Tedrow, a registered dietitian and a certified nutrition …

Whata s happening

… includes dinner, soup, sides, drink and dessert. For tickets, call Kim at 842-8611 or Joe at 842-4987. A free cancer health screening will be held at the St. Mary’s Breast Health Center in the Rao Outpatient Pavilion, 4950 Route 30 from 3 to 5 p.m. …

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Over the past year we all saw, and or experienced a steep rise in the popularity of health & wellness. Likely as a direct result of our fast-paced and driven society, many of us find comfort in taking the time to slow down and nurture ourselves.

Joe’s Health Calendar

… include: Pre-Diabetes and Diabetes Overview; Healthy Eating and Physical Activity; Diabetes Medications; and Heart Health and Diabetes. Registration is required. Phone (209) 944-8355 . Diabetes can be managed successfully. Let us walk with you on …

Low-calorie sweetener use in kids jumps 200%, study finds

The consumption of low-calorie sweeteners jumped a whopping 200% among children and 54% among adults from 1999 to 2012, according to a study published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics on Tuesday. “We were somewhat surprised,” said Allison Sylvetsky, assistant professor at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University, who was lead author of the study.

Daily folic acid supplementation remains important for prevention of birth defects

Despite the mandatory addition of folic acid to enriched grain products in the United States, many women still do not consume adequate amounts of this important vitamin, according to an editorial written by Laura E. Mitchell, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health. Mitchell was invited to write the editorial for JAMA Pediatrics , which published it today during Folic Acid Awareness Week and January’s Birth Defects Prevention Month.

Unintended consequences, special interests, and our problem with sugar

“The dietary fat consensus negated the viability of a competing hypothesis that highly processed carbohydrates, and particularly sugars, are the macronutrients to worry about in the American diet. By this thinking, the modern diet damages our health not through cholesterol-related mechanisms but through disruptions of insulin signaling, in which diabetes and so premature death is the end state.

Dion’s

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has issued a public health alert due to the concerns that assorted sliced deli meat products were served to customers at Dion’s in Texas, New Mexico and Colorado may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The sliced roast beef, ham, pastrami and turkey items were produced between Dec. 14, 2016 and Dec. 29, 2016, however product may have been available in restaurant locations through Jan. 4, 2017.

Focusing on Pharmacists

… pharmacy department to provide cooking classes for diabetic patients or different services that work around the health and wellness aspect of nutrition.” In this case, the supermarket works with a nearby pain-management clinic. Others may serve a …

News flash: why some refined carbs may be good for us

Skip to navigation Skip to content Skip to footer View text version of this page Help using this website – Accessibility statement Join today and you can easily save your favourite articles, join in the conversation and comment, plus select which news your want direct to your inbox. Refined carbs aren’t exactly health heroes and are often accused of raising the risk of obesity, heart disease and type 2 diabetes.

Allegheny County Schools Health Insurance Consortium gains recognition

Allegheny County Schools Health Insurance Consortium Trustee Jan Klein, Pittsburgh Business Group on Health CEO Jessica Brooks, and consortium Chairman David Wyatt. The Allegheny County Schools Health Insurance Consortium was recognized last year by the Pittsburgh Business Group on Health for “Excellence in Driving Innovation in Employee Health,” and by the Pittsburgh Business Times as a Health Care Hero.

Obama’s Minnesota legacy

From a health care overhaul to student-debt relief, President Obama’s policies had a significant impact on the lives of many Minnesotans. Minnesota was an early adopter of Obama’s health care overhaul, bringing the number of uninsured residents in the state to an all-time low.

Cheers & Jeers

JEERS: In regard of our recent cost of living adjustment of 0.3% in 2017. This week I received a letter of social security benefits informing me of my increase of $2.10 monthly.

Don’t Let the Swag Throw Off Your Swagger

It’s the New Year and we’ve all made promises to ourselves to better our health , but few of us think that could entail reconsidering our willingness to take advantage of free products. It’s possible that the allure of gold patina on plastic bottles and exotic synthetic fragrances blind us to the small print announcing toxic substances contained within them.

K, ok?

… urpose to get potassium? Do you care at all? I am middle aged, female, vegetarian but not vegan, fit but some chronic health issues. Curious if this is even a thing away from the small square dictator that is my laptop.

France orders massive duck cull to contain bird flu

France yesterday ordered a massive cull of ducks in three regions most affected by a severe outbreak of bird flu as it tries to contain the virus which has been spreading quickly over the past month, the agriculture ministry said. All free range ducks, as well as geese, will be slaughtered between 5 January and approximately 20 January in an area in southwestern France comprising parts of the Gers, Landes and Hautes-Pyrenees administrative departments, it said in a statement.

France to cull 800,000 ducks

France on Wednesday ordered a massive cull of ducks in three regions most affected by a severe episode of bird flu as it tries to contain the virus which has been spreading quickly over the past month, the agriculture ministry said. All free range ducks, as well as geese, will be slaughtered between January 5 and january 20 in an area in southwestern France comprising parts of the Gers, Landes and Hautes-Pyrenees administrative departments, it said in a statement.

Cheese Has These 5 Secret Health Benefits

… of others, as proof that the thousands of molecules that come together to form cheese actually make it good for our health. Can we get an amen?! Cheese contains tons of protein, which bodies need to build cell structures, and helps you stay full …

Soup for the soul, and the waistline

… less and have smaller waists than people who don’t eat soup. More than 20,000 Americans were surveyed by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys between 2003 and 2008. Turns out that soup consumers also had better overall eating habits …