FDA modernizes Nutrition Facts label for packaged foods

Refreshed design and relevant information will help consumers make healthy food choices.The U.S.

Wholesome wholegrain

Most people are aware that rye bread is healthy, but not many know that what makes bread a healthy food is not only vitamins, minerals, protein and fibre.

Global obesity response is ‘unacceptably slow,’ according to experts

Improved training of health care professionals, tightened regulations and more healthy food programs are needed to counter growing obesity and an aggressive food industry.

Women’s diets not related to local offerings

Canadian men’s eating habits are associated with the availability of healthy food sources in their residential neighbourhood but women’s are not, according to researchers at the University of…

Men’s diets are related to local offerings, unlike women’s

Canadian men’s eating habits are associated with the availability of healthy food sources in their residential neighborhood but women’s are not, according to researchers. Why men and not women? “This may be because women, who are in general more nutritionally knowledgeable, may engage in different food shopping strategies than men, and rely on other aspects of the food environment than the proportion of food stores locally available,” suggested the study’s leader

Men’s Diets Benefit From Good Communication Between Couples

Eating a healthy balanced diet is vital for all-round good health and although women try to keep their husbands on a healthy food track, the majority of married men tend to binge on unhealthy foods when away from home…