“Traffic-light” and Numeric Calorie Labels Cut Calorie Consumption by 10...
Newswise — PHILADELPHIA, PA – Imagine you’re ordering lunch from your favorite online delivery spot, and just before submitting your order, you notice that the club sandwich in your cart is marked with...
View ArticleNew bill tries to dispel consumer confusion about food labels
A new bill aims to curtail food waste and dispel consumer confusion by clearly differentiating between labels for foods which have reached peak quality and labels for foods which have become unsafe to...
View ArticleReal Food/Fake Food: Why You Don’t Know What You’re Eating and What You Can...
“Impressive . . . Readers will be inspired by Olmsted’s intensity and clarity, and floored by how far some counterfeiters go to fool consumers and some historic food institutions go to protect their...
View ArticleKellogg’s reprimanded for calling Special K ‘nutritious’ as dietary...
Kellogg’s has been reprimanded for advertising Special K cereal products as ‘nutritious’ by British regulators. It’s an indication of how ideas about nutrition are shifting, in the United States and...
View ArticleClaims that ‘deep ocean water’ rehydrates athletes twice as fast don’t hold up
Anyone looking to enter the growing and crowded premium water market has to differentiate themselves somehow, whether it’s with a unique bottling source or a diamond-encrusted bottle cap. Kona Deep’s...
View ArticleNutritional geometry: a new framework for how we should eat
Existing models for measuring health impacts of the human diet are limiting our capacity to solve obesity and its related health problems, claim two of the world’s leading nutritional scientists in...
View ArticleMaking Sure ‘Healthy’ Means What It Says on Food Packages
With final rules on the Nutrition Facts label published, consumers soon will see an updated label on food packages that makes the calories and serving sizes of products easier to see and that gives...
View ArticleFast-Food Calorie Labeling Unlikely to Encourage Healthy Eating, Finds NYU Study
Newswise — Researchers from New York University show why fast-food menu calorie counts do not help consumers make healthy choices in a new study published in the Journal of Public Policy &...
View ArticleStudy: Graphic Pictures on Cigarette Packs Would Significantly Reduce Smoking...
Newswise — WASHINGTON — Using prominent, graphic pictures on cigarette packs warning against smoking could avert more than 652,000 deaths, up to 92,000 low birth weight infants, up to 145,000 preterm...
View ArticleVitamin-Fortified Snack Food May Lead Consumers to Make Poor Dietary Decisions
J Acad Nutr Diet. 2016 Nov 30. pii: S2212-2672(16)31215-1. doi:10.1016/j.jand.2016.10.008. [Epub ahead of print] Vitamin-Fortified Snack Food May Lead Consumers to Make Poor Dietary Decisions. Verrill...
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