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- Court orders New York fast food joints to post calorie content
- NEW YORK AFP — A court ordered fast food restaurants in New York City Tuesday to start publishing the calorie content of their meals, after the eateries lost an appeal to have the anti-obesity measure suspended. The Manhattan district appeal court rejected their call for more time to fight...
- Research articles 2008-04-29
- UC Irvine Dietitian Offers Survival Strategies for the Holidays; It's Possible to Celebrate Without Gaining Weight During 'National Eating Season'.
- Byline: University of California, Irvine IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 7 AScribe Newswire -- As director of the UC Irvine Weight Management Program, Linda Gigliotti sees what the holidays can do to people. But the new year doesn't have to dawn with new pounds. Instead, plan...
- Research articles 2007-11-07
- New fish and seafood products.
- Healthy Choice Creamy Dill Salmon is marketed as a healthy-eating, restaurant inspired recipe dish by Omaha, Nebraska, USA-headquartered ConAgra Foods, Inc. The 227-gram product, which sells for $3.99, features wild salmon fillet slices in creamy dill sauce over penne pasta, plus a side dish of broccoli...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- Researchers find fad diets generally ineffectual
- Reuters reports that dieters looking for tricks to lose weight got more bad news with the publication of a study showing diets that restrict certain food groups do not take off any extra weight. "Despite all the controversy about diet ... a calorie is a calorie is a calorie," Tufts...
- Research articles 2004-11-15
- Sugar surprise
- On the average, Americans eat the equivalent of about 31 teaspoons of added sugar per day. That extra 500 calories is about 20% of our total calorie intake, per an article in Tufts University's Health & Nutrition Letter (June 2004). The newsletter says that is too much sugar, and...
- Research articles 2004-11-01
- MayoClinic.com Launches Calorie Calculator in Its Food and Nutrition Center: Users Can Determine Number of Calories Needed Each Day to Maintain Current Weight.(Brief Article)
- Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Aug. 18 AScribe Newswire -- Low-carb diets are the current rage, but the message on MayoClinic.com still is: calories count. A calorie is still a calorie, and too many calories from any source lead to weight gain. ...
- Research articles 2004-08-18
- Karma meets indulgence
- The quest to cull carbohydrates from food products seems never-ending and has expanded to the ice cream aisles, which now boast Atkins-friendly offerings from such stalwarts as Good Humor-Breyer's (Green Bay, Wisc.), Dean Foods Dallas and Mayfield Dairy (Athens, Tenn.). One of the most recent such launches comes from Ben...
- Research articles 2004-07-01
- Low carbohydrate diets may not aid weight loss, Yale and Stanford researchers find.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-11 April 2003-YALE UNIVERSITY: Low carbohydrate diets may not aid weight loss, Yale and Stanford researchers findC1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:04102003 New Haven, Conn. -- A new study of low-carbohydrate diets published in this week's Journal of the American Medical...
- Research articles 2003-04-11
- Blue ridge mountains
- Strathmore has extended its range of six low calorie Clear waters with a Mountain Blueberry variant. The company is claiming to be the first leading clear brand to introduce a blueberry flavour. Brand manager Finn O'Driscoll said: "Clears now account for 20% of the bottled water market and...
- Research articles 1998-11-28
- Fat and fiction: calorie for calorie, the thin gain more - and other weighty findings
- Fat and Fiction That skinny friend who pigs out but never gains weight might be a rarer bird than you thought. Contrary to widespread belief, thin people typically gain weight with fewer calories than the obese, a recent nutritional study suggests. The likely reason for the difference...
- Research articles 1990-09-01
- USDA's 2005 Dietary Guidelines emphasize calorie control and exercise
- In recognition that almost two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese, and more than half get too little physical activity, the government's 2005 Dietary Guidelines that were issued January 12 place a stronger emphasis on calorie control and physical activity.
- Research articles 2005-01-17
- New 90 Calorie Coke Can is Good Business Strategy, If Nothing Else
- The Coca-Cola Company is all about health lately, apparently. It's part of the recently launched Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation, a food industry-led anti-obesity campaign; it's working with the American Academy of Family Physicians on a nutritional education campaign; and now it's releasing Coke in a smaller can to help consumers...
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- Your Money Woes: Less About Math, More About Psychology?
- Learning how to handle money, live within a budget and decide when to save and when to splurge is one of the greatest challenges of young adulthood (and frankly, for many, all of adulthood). You may be able to rattle off a definition of a credit derivative swap, ace calculus...
- Blog posts 2009-09-29
- KFC Gets Attention Using Chicken for Bread in 'Double Down'
- Can this sandwich possibly have fewer than 600 calories? According to KFC, it does. The new Double Down, which KFC is testing in Rhode Island and Nebraska, uses two pieces of fried chicken instead of bread, with bacon and cheese in between them. I'm not sure how...
- Blog posts 2009-08-28
- Burgerville Tests Listing Calories on Receipts
- There's been a lot of talk about listing calories and other nutritional information on restaurant menu boards, but Burgerville is taking the trend a step further. A Portland, Ore. location of the burger chain now includes calorie totals, proteins, fats and carbs right on customer receipts. The...
- Blog posts 2009-08-26
- 'Stuffed' Author Hank Cardello Says Industry Needs Wake-Up Call
- Hank Cardello is the author of the book "Stuffed: An Insider's Look at Who's Really Making America Fat." He's also a consultant and former food executive who's worked for General Mills, Michelob and the Coca-Cola Company, among others. I spoke with him this morning about the obesity...
- Blog posts 2009-05-27
- Food Roundup: Lipton Recalls Tea, Yum Adds Calorie Counts to Menu, and More
- Lipton Milk Tea recalled in Chinese melamine scare -- After discovering traces of melamine in samples of its powdered Lipton Milk Tea, Unilever recalled four batches of the beverage that were sold in Hong Kong and Macau. [Source: CNN] Yum Brands adding calorie information to menus --...
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- A Calorie Is a Calorie Violates the Second Law of Thermodynamics
- The principle of "a calorie is a calorie," that weight change in hypocaloric diets is independent of macronutrient composition, is widely held in the popular and technical literature, and is frequently justified by appeal to the laws of thermodynamics. The paper reviews here some aspects of thermodynamics that bear on...
- White papers 2004-07-28
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- Low-calorie diet reduces stroke, heart attack risk: study
- WASHINGTON AFP ? Severely restricting calorie consumption can drastically reduce the risk of developing diabetes, a heart attack or a stroke, according to a study. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, found that the people in their 50s or 60s who adopted a low-calorie...
- Research articles 2004-04-19
- Jamba Juice debuts lower-calorie, -sugar, -carb smoothies
- SAN FRANCISCO -- Jamba Juice, in an effort to meet consumer demand for lower-carbohydrate, lower-sugar food items, recently debuted two new Enlightened Smoothie flavors, both of which are extensions of the lower-calorie, lower-sugar and lower-carbohydrate smoothie line the company first introduced last March. Now available in more than 470...
- Research articles 2005-02-14
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