Nutrition News

There's nothing tricky or difficult about making chocolate frosting. Dump a few ingredients into a bowl, beat for a few minutes, then taste, tweak and frost.

The Senate this week rejected farm-bill amendments to cancel food-stamp spending reductions, make greater spending cuts and turn the program into grants for states to administer.

Jelly Belly Candy Co. announced at the National Confectioners Association show in Chicago this week that it will roll out voluntary front-of-package nutrition labeling on some of its most popular pre-packaged products.

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Keas announced at Healthbeat today two new content partnerships with My Healthy Dish and Noshtopia that will help employees make wiser nutritional choices and save employers money on health care costs.

It's clear that eating right goes hand in hand with exercising, but in our world full of information-and misinformation-it can sometimes prove challenging to separate what's true and what's a big fat lie when it comes to how certain nutritional practices affect your fitness.

At a time when even school cafeterias serve adobo and sushi, it's surprising that so many restaurants still resort to chicken fingers and macaroni and cheese for their youngest clientele.

It's the leading cause of cancer deaths in both men and women, higher than colon, breast, and prostate cancer.

Proving that public school lunch menus are an exercise in not being able to please all the people all the time, an effort to improve nutrition over the past school year has been controversial.

"The students who inherited genetic risk factors from both parents were already 15½ pounds heavier and 2 inches bigger around the waist than those who hadn't. They also had slightly higher fasting glucose levels," said Margarita Teran-Garcia, a U of I professor of food science and human nutrition.

The post-industrial lifestyle has many disadvantageous effects on our health. One of the factors is modern nutrition , which has been associated with epidemic burdens, such as obesity and cardiovascular diseases.

I still want to learn ... A. how to make more Thai and Indian food at home. I can't wait to ... A. I'm a foodie, so eat dinner tonight.

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LSU AgCenter Extension Service nutrition agent Karen Marie will be the featured speaker June 1 at the Covington Farmers Market .

'Various nutrition-related activities will be carried out as part of the initiative to reinforce the message of leading a healthy lifestyle to prevent diet-related chronic diseases,' says Dr Tee.

Are there certain foods and supplements that benefit the body after an accident? If so, a list would be most appreciated.

The potential of cocoa to beneficially impact 'good' cholesterol levels may be linked to the theobromine content and not the flavonoids, says a new study from Unilever Research & Development Vlaardingen.

Morgan Barnett, 7, drinks from containers of 1 percent milk and chocolate milk during lunch at a school in St.

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., is learning to eat lean and mean this week. The freshman lawmaker is taking the 'SNAP' challenge, living off the equivalent of what Connecticut families receive in food stamps.

Osteoporosis is a chronic medical condition that exists when the body either loses bone faster than it can be made or doesn't make it as fast as it's being lost.