YottaMark Inc. today announced it has been granted a patent on methods for personalizing food nutrition scores. The Company's ShopWell app, downloaded more than a million times in 2013, helps shoppers make healthy choices about the food ...
Tags: personalizing food nutrition scores, patent, food nutritional values
It's never too early for you to start taking care of your heart. Studies show children who have good heart health practices are at lower your risk of developing cardiovascular diseases later in life. The first step, says Susan Haynes, ...
Tags: smoking, Heart-Healthy Lifestyle, Kid, Adolescent
February 10, 2014 Joe Lederman, principal FOODLEGAL Australia’s proposed Front-of-Pack-Label scheme goes offline for now Last week, the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA) and consumer group CHOICE were celebrating ...
Tags: PHAA, CHOICE, Front-of-Pack-Label Scheme, Forum
Produce for health marks vegetable, fruit improvement center's 20th year People interested in healthy foods are invited to a day-long conference Feb. 25 in College Station to hear the latest findings on connections between fruit and ...
Tags: Vegetable, Fruit, fruit improvement
American adults are eating healthier diets, making better use of nutrition information on food labels, consuming more fiber and less cholesterol, and getting fewer calories from total fat and saturated fat, a federal government report says. ...
Medicine alone cannot improve the health of the nation -- not when one in five Americans lives in unsafe neighborhoods where pollution, crime and joblessness are prevalent; nutritious food is scarce; and the well-being of young people is at ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, Health Care
President Nixon funded research to wage a war on cancer, a long battle that we're still fighting today. While the last 40 years haven't brought us a cure, we have made some meaningful progress in developing tools and knowledge to take a ...
Tags: cancer risk, lifestyle changes, preventive screenings, healthy choices
Freightliner has announced Covenant Transport has become one of the first major fleets to order its FIT in-cab exercise system. Covenant will make the system available to its drivers, providing a way for them to work out while on the ...
Tags: Freightliner, Covenant Transport, FIT in-cab exercise system, FIT system
The use of color-coded "traffic light" food labels and changes in the way popular items are displayed appear to have produced a long-term increase in the choice of more healthful food items among customers in a large hospital cafeteria. A ...
The use of color-coded "traffic light" food labels and changes in the way popular items are displayed appear to have produced a long-term increase in the choice of more healthful food items among customers in a large hospital cafeteria. A ...
Tags: Food Labels, Food
Hospitals might be able to coax cafeteria customers to buy healthier food by adjusting item displays to have traffic light-style green, yellow and red labels based on their level of nutrition, new research suggests. "Our current results ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, Labeling Food
Doctors are missing a prime opportunity to share information about sex with their teenage patients by failing to broach the subject during checkups, according to researchers at Duke Medicine. The study, published Dec. 30, 2013, in JAMA ...
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U.S. physicians bring up sex in 65 percent of annual visits with their teen patients, but the conversations average less than 36 seconds, researchers say. Lead author Stewart Alexander, an associate professor of medicine at Duke Medicine, ...
1888 Press Release - ER Plumbing Services of Charlotte is sponsoring a sweepstakes. The prize is a choice of either a brand new Rinnai tankless water heater or a brand new Pelican whole house water filtration system. ...
McCormick & Co. Inc., a global leader in flavor, has released its 2013 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) review, "Sharing Our Passion for Flavor." The review builds on the company's tradition of social responsibility by outlining key ...