Nutrition
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'Eat More Kale' Guy Beats Chick-fil-A In Trademark Battle
A Vermont T-shirt maker has been granted a trademark for the phrase "Eat More Kale," a decision the state's governor on Friday hailed as a victory for "the little guy" over a "corporate bully."...
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Big Sugar's Sweet Little Lies
How the industry kept scientists from asking: Does sugar kill? Read More »
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Bill Gates Joins Administration In Promoting Open Agricultural Data
Bill Gates on Monday joined top administration officials in promoting open access to agricultural data as a way to increase global nutrition and food security. Read More »
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Butter Is Bad – A Myth We've Been Fed By The 'Healthy Eating' Industry
Medics are saying saturated fat may not be the devil incarnate. Just don't expect an apology from low-fat food purveyors Read More »
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Chefs & Local Food Advocates Head To Washington To Support Food Stamp Nutrition Incentives At Farmers Market
With nearly a dozen chefs at their side, local food advocates visited Capitol Hill today to encourage lawmakers to support legislation that would provide federally funded nutrition incentives in the upcoming farm bill... Read More »
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Do We Need To Know What’s In Junk Food?
In the continuing effort to fight obesity in the U.S., the Food and Drug Administration is reviewing its nutrition labeling guidelines. The agency is re-evaluating serving sizes and considering the placement of calorie and nutrition labels on the front of food packages, from cereals to soups to candy. Read More »
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Dr Terry Wahls Inspirational Health Journey
Dr. Terry Wahls gave a now famous TEDx talk in 2011 where she talked about how she had to look beyond conventional medicine to treat her own multiple sclerosis. Prior to that, she was like many other physicians...
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Frontiers Launches A New Open-Access Journal: Frontiers In Nutrition
Frontiers – a community driven open-access publisher and research networking platform – is pleased to announce the launch of a new open-access journal: Frontiers in Nutrition...the latest addition to the "Frontiers in" journal series and will publish scientific investigations and research of the highest quality relevant to eating behavior, clinical nutrition, food science technology and more.
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Frontline Health Workers’ Key Role in Improving Nutrition
Sunita Kumari was struggling to get her message across. Working as an auxiliary nurse midwife in Gumla District, Jharkhand, India, she kept trying to mobilize the women of Toto, a village of 941 houses, to participate in Village Health and Nutrition Days. [...] Read More »
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G-8 Conference Highlights Importance Of Open Data In Ag
The G-8 Open Data For Agriculture Conference kicked off with an announcement from USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack on the new virtual community launched on Data.gov. Read More »
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Getting Enough Vitamin D: More Than Milk And Sunshine
New research finds that people with low levels of vitamin D are more likely to die from cancer, heart disease and other illnesses. Nutrition professor and author Marion Nestle explains. Read More »
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GFAR Launches Platform To Make Agricultural Data More Available
In an effort to make agricultural research more widely available, The Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) officially launched the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) platform in October of 2013. The GODAN program, born from the 2012 G8 conference, “Open Data in Agriculture,” is designed to make agricultural data open, shared and available. Read More »
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Government Attacked Over Deals With Fast-Food Industry: ‘Pure Illusion’ To Think This Approach Can Cut Obesity
Scathing World Health Organisation report warns UK cannot tackle epidemic unless Government changes policy Read More »
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How Being Poor Makes You Sick
Some patients are being "prescribed" bicycles and groceries as doctors attempt to treat the lifestyle consequences of poverty, in addition to its medical symptoms. Can it work?...
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It’s Time To Change American Disease-Management Into A Health-Fostering System
I’ve recently written a couple of articles about the exorbitant cost of medical care in the US, which is incompatible with the poor health outcomes of Americans at large. Americans pay the most for but reap the least amount of benefits from their health care, compared to other industrialized nations... Read More »
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