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• 89 Percent of Children's Food Products Provide Poor Nutritional Quality

  But 62 percent of them still make health claims on the packaging Reported by researchers at University of Calgary, Canada Nine out of ten regular food items aimed specifically at children have a poor nutritional content – because of high levels Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 17, 2008 4:43 PM by admin | 2 Comments Filed under: Nutrition, Food Packaging

• Food for Thought: Delivering the Promise of Food Processing

  Report from ESF and COST Conference Humans have transformed raw ingredients into food since prehistoric times. But scientists are still looking for new ways to make food taste better and survive longer. Presenting their findings at a recent European Science Read More... Posted Thursday, August 07, 2008 11:52 AM by admin | 1 Comments Filed under: Food, Nutrition, Food Packaging

• A Spoonful of Restraint to Help the Cereal Ads Go Down

  By David L. Katz, MD, Yale University The Kellogg Company announced last week, to considerable media fanfare, that it would place voluntary restrictions on its marketing to children. This restraint is intended to help the ads for cereals containing spoons Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 14, 2007 1:34 PM by admin | 1 Comments Filed under: Nutrition, Food Packaging

• Getting the Lead Out - To Remove Trans Fat

  David L. Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP When NYC Health Commissioner, Dr. Thomas Frieden, recently proposed a ban on the use of trans fat in restaurants city-wide, it made national headlines. Is getting this particular fat out of our food really such a big Read More... Posted Thursday, July 12, 2007 12:46 PM by admin | 0 Comments Filed under: Nutrition, Diabetes, Food Packaging, Eating Well

• Our Daily Bread: Grains of Truth, Wheat and Chafe

  By David L. Katz, MD, Yale University Bread has had a prominent place in our diets, and in our culture, almost continuously since the first grains were sown in Mesopotamia roughly 12,000 years ago. It has been called the staff of life. A prayer for sustenance Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 02, 2007 1:23 PM by admin | 0 Comments Filed under: Food, Nutrition, Food Packaging