Major food companies are keeping their word by removing 6.4 trillion calories from the U.S. marketplace in an effort to promote healthy weight, a new report says. The report, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), a ...
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Healthy Directions, LLC, today announced the launch of MeraLean™ Advantage, a unique weight loss supplement formulated by Dr. David Williams that safely and naturally helps people lose weight and also supports normal blood sugar ...
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If Sesame Street characters talk about healthy eating and exercise, preschoolers may listen, and their parents may learn as well, researchers in Colombia say. Dr. Jaime Cespedes, director of the Pediatric Hospital at the Cardioinfantil ...
As challenging as it might sometimes seem, shedding those excess pounds and keeping them off is not an impossible task. For many overweight and obese people, simply making a few basic dietary changes is enough to achieve dramatic weight ...
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Contrary to popular belief, not all fat is bad for your health. Many fats, in fact, actually promote healthy weight maintenance and a well-functioning cardiovascular and nervous system, among many other benefits. But with so much ...
Followers of the popular Mediterranean diet have known for years that eating fresh fruits and vegetables, nuts, seeds and plenty of extra virgin olive oil is beneficial to health. Recent studies have continued to bolster this eating ...
Women underweight and obese women are more likely to die before the age of 85 while overweight and obese women had higher risk of disease, U.S. researchers say. Eileen Rillamas-Sun of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, ...
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A new poll released today shows a large gap between parents’ perceptions of their children’s weight and expert definitions. According to their parents, 15% of children are a little or very overweight, while national data suggest ...
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NEW YORK, June 6, 2013 -- The Dukan Diet, the internationally celebrated 4-phase weight loss program to reach and keep your True Weight for life, today unveiled its new DukanDiet.com North American website to provide improved personalized ...
I recently received an email asking my opinion about a couple of different types of pet foods –- what I thought about the quality of the foods. Both of the pet foods he asked about (which he was feeding his 'family') were what I ...
Fourteen food industry heavyweights including Nestlé, Kellogg and Mars have pledged to use responsible advertising and marketing to children in Singapore. The Responsible Advertising to Children Pledge is the first of its kind in ...
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Cereal giant Kellogg has switched the 'K girl' in a red swimsuit in its latest Special K television advert in the UK for what it claims are "real women". Kellogg has said it is using plus-sized women in its advertising for the first time ...
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In March 2010, Michelle Obama stood on a stage in Washington and leveled a challenge at the food industry's biggest players. "We need you all to step it up," she told a meeting of the Grocery Manufacturers Association. Just a month earlier, ...
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