Fresh Healthy Takes Aim at the Nation's Looming Obesity Crisis

                    By the year 2030, 40 percent of Americans will be obeseVending machines have traditionally been...

Help Support SFHomeless and James the Advocate May 2012 Goal

Hello!      My name is James Leonard, co-Founder of the original SFHomeless Yahoo group designed about six years ago to empower our SF homeless shelter residents, staff and policy makers;...

Feed a Hungry Child with Every Nutrition Bar Purchased

Two Degrees Food™ officially launched today as the first one-for-one food company designed to fight childhood hunger with the debut of its all-natural Two Degrees nutrition bars. For every Two Degrees nutrition...

Twinkie Diet Helps Professor Lose 27 Pounds in Two Months

How Could Eating Twinkies, Doritos Chips, Oreos and Hostess Cakes Help You Lose 27 Pounds? This is a challenge taken on by a professor of human nutrition at Kansas State University, Mark Haub, who ate one sugary...

Rural child health initiative reaches out to UP's poor

Wednesday and Saturdays are Routine Immunization days in Uttar Pradesh. From morning one witnesses rural women with infants in arms making a beeline for primary health centers. But June and December are more special months for little children in India's most populous state...

Michelle Obama Childhood Obesity campaign gains traction

Michelle Obama childhood obesity detractors are few and far between. When the campaign first launched several weeks ago many did not know what to make of it. Through an organised effort combining several government agencies, her childhood obesity movement has built up a lot...

Pot Noodle Inspires Top Chef Heston Blumenthal of Fat Duck Bray

Heston Blumenthal and Pot Noodle are not things that most people would think of together but the Michelin starred chef reveals in The Times that the humble Pot Noodle has inspired one of his latest creations. The...

Why the Obese are Hungry: The Chemical Maze of Cheap Fast Foods

According to Sam Dolnick in an article in the NY Times, the link between hunger and obesity has to do with the scarcity of healthy options in low-income areas, driving those who cannot afford to spend more on...

DC Wards 7, 8: In Search of Healthy Food

It’s a beautiful sunny Saturday and Ward 7 resident Susan Edwards has traveled to the Riverside Center to pick up an organic healthy food box for her upcoming Thanksgiving meal. Edwards, 50, was one of only a...

Top 10 crises of the year: HIV/AIDS

Estimated 10 million infected people without treatment in the developing world, making it one of 2009's Top 10 humanitarian crises, according to Doctors Without Borders. Other crises that made the list released...

The Importance of Folic Acid for Pregnant Women

According to the March of Dimes, folic acid, which is a B vitamin helps prevent birth defects in the brain and spinal cord when it’s taken before a woman is pregnant and during the early stages (first trimester) of pregnancy. Folic acid is available in different forms...

'Organic has no health benefits'

" Organic food is no healthier than ordinary food, a large independent review has concluded. There is little difference in nutritional value and no evidence of any extra health benefits from eating organic...

Delicious Food Award

This was from Vietnamese Delicious Food Award was announced at the Rex Hotel in HCMC’s District 1. more pictures will be uploaded as soon as they arrive.

Commentary - Children's obesity: we're all responsible

"American children are getting fat - and no one wants to accept the blame. National Nutrition Month is a good time to do a little self examination. Maybe it's our parenting that is at fault. I was digging through a box of old mementoes a few weeks ago and came upon a stack...

13 Tricks To Eat Less

Nowdays, more and more people are trying to reduce their callories intake. How much we eat does not affect only our looks, but our health as well. It seems that people who eat less have a lower risk of heart...

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