| NY calorie rule applies to cocktails
Put down that margarita, and back away from the bar. A new city regulation that requires chain restaurants to display calorie information also covers cocktails, sodas and other beverages that appear on menus. "Drinks are almost the forgotten calories," said Cathy Nonas, director of physical activity and nutrition programs for the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. "It's almost a side thought to the meal." The city Board of Health voted unanimously last month to approve the regulation, a new version of a law that had been struck down by a judge last year. The law, scheduled to go into effect on March 31, applies to restaurants with more than 15 outlets across the country. That includes fast-food places such as McDonald's and sit-down chains such as Olive Garden and T.G.I.
Budget breakdown: How agencies, programs fared
As he had proposed for this year's farm spending, President Bush Monday unveiled another hold-the-line budget for the Agriculture Department for fiscal 2009. Down to the dollar, the president's budget calls for slightly more than $94.7 billion in total agriculture spending for discretionary and mandatory programs in the next fiscal year. That is slightly less, $10 million, than the amount he estimates will be spent this year on USDA programs. Discretionary spending for the Food and Nutrition Service and for commodities and international programs would be increased, while spending for the Forest Service, research, and conservation programs would be cut. Under mandatory outlays, the Agricultural Marketing Service, Natural Resources Conservation Service and crop insurance programs would receive boosts in spending, along with food and nutrition.
Keep Unborn Baby Healthy: Dos and Don'ts
Although there is no way to guarantee that your baby will be born 100 percent healthy, expecting mothers can take certain steps to reduce the risk of some physical and intellectual abnormalities. The National Women's Health Information Center and AVSC International, an organization that promotes reproductive health care worldwide, give some tips for pregnant women: Visit a health-care provider in the first trimester of your pregnancy, and then at regular intervals until you give birth. Contact your insurance provider or, if you don't have one, contact your local family or social services for health insurance options. Eat healthy foods. Your doctor may instruct you with some specific nutrition guidelines. Get regular physical activity.
If a food's nutrition label says no cholesterol, then it's "heart ...
Reality: Not always. Nutrition labels are helpful when choosing heart-healthy foods, but look at them closely, advises the American Heart Association. Many "low-cholesterol" foods contain high levels of saturated and/or trans fat, both of which contribute to high blood cholesterol. Even "low-fat" foods may have a higher fat content than expected. Look at the amount of saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol and total calories per serving (and check the serving size -- often, it's smaller than you'd think). The first ingredient is the most important -- fats and oils should be listed low. .
Technical Briefing - Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Company
MODERATOR (Corry Schiermeyer): Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us again. Today we will have, and I'll go through the list of names that we have here in the room that can answer some of your questions – We're not going to start with any opening remarks or anything. I'll go through the list, and then we'll just go directly to questions. So we have Dr. Scott Hurd, USDA deputy under secretary for Food Safety; Dr. Kenneth Petersen, assistant administrator, Office of Field Operations for USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service; Bruce Knight, USDA under secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs; Bill Sessions, associate deputy administrator for Livestock and Feed Programs, USDA Ag Marketing Service; Dr. John Clifford, USDA chief veterinarian officer; Eric Steiner, associate administrator for Special Nutrition Programs, USDA Food and Nutrition Service; and Ron Vogel, associate deputy administrator for Special Nutrition Programs, USDA Food and Nutrition Service.
Kemin and DSM Forge Long-Term Strategic Alliance
LAS VEGAS, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Kemin Industries, Inc. and Kemin Health, L.C. (Kemin), creator of FloraGLO(R) lutein the world's leading lutein brand, and DSM Nutritional Products (DSM), the premium supplier of vitamins, carotenoids, and nutraceuticals, announced today a strengthened strategic alliance to significantly grow lutein usage and the eye health supplement category worldwide. Under an existing agreement, DSM currently offers FloraGLO(R) brand lutein products made with crystalline lutein supplied by Kemin. Under the terms of the new global agreement, Kemin will supply FloraGLO(R) brand lutein exclusively through DSM. DSM will commercialize globally FloraGLO(R) brand lutein products through distributors and directly to customers in the dietary supplement, food and beverage, and over-the-counter pharmaceutical industries.
PLBuyer: Nutritional Scoring Tool Introduced - and Challenged
Topco Associates has come out with a new nutritional new scoring system, the Overall Nutritional Quality Index (ONQI), that uses a numeric score to rate any food item or recipe. The rating system uses a complex algorithm that incorporates nearly 30 nutrient factors and expresses them via a scoring scale of 1 to 100. What do you think of the simplicity of QNQI's 1-100 'at-a-glance' scoring system? Is it healthy or unhealthy for the grocery industry that so many nutritional scoring systems are being developed? REGISTRATION ONLY TAKES A MINUTE!
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In Defence of Food by Michael Pollan
Her parents wouldn't recognise the foods we put on the table, except maybe the butter, which is back. Today in America, as in much of the western world, the culture of food is changing more than once a generation, which is historically unprecedented - and dizzying. What is driving such relentless change? One force is a multibillion-dollar food-marketing machine that thrives on change for its own sake. Another is the constantly shifting ground of nutrition science that, depending on your point of view, is advancing the frontiers of our knowledge about diet and health or just changing its mind a lot because it knows much less than it cares to admit. Part of what drove my grandparents' food culture from the dinner table was official scientific opinion, which, beginning in the 1960s, decided that animal fat was a deadly substance.
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