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With The CarbLovers Diet, eating carbohydrates foods is the only way to lose weight

Who would have thought you could eat your favorite carbohydrate-rich foods and still lose weight? If your New Year's resolution is to lose weight in 2011, Health's bestselling book, The CarbLovers Diet by Ellen Kunes (Editor-in-Chief, Health) and Frances Largeman-Roth, RD (Senior Food & Nutrition Editor, Health), may be the solution.

14 Dec 2010

New types of dietary fiber now under development

High-fiber foods are on the way to becoming tastier and more appealing to consumers thanks to new types of dietary fiber now under development. These consumer friendlier forms of fiber, which could be a boon to health, are the topic of an article in the current issue of Chemical & Engineering News, ACS' weekly newsmagazine.

9 Dec 2010

Overeating and drinking at holiday parties could affect those unaware of type 2 diabetes

For most people, overeating and drinking at holiday parties will just result in weight gain. However, for millions of others who do not know they have type 2 diabetes, it could mean something much more serious.

8 Dec 2010

School children design healthy sandwich to celebrate EMCC’s 25th anniversary

School children in Clifton, Nottingham spent the morning in the kitchens of the East Midlands Conference Centre to make their own sandwiches. Assisted by head chef Ian Litchfield and second chef Carl Hutchinson, the children were chosen having entered a competition to design a 'healthy' sandwich to help celebrate the EMCC's 25th anniversary.

26 Nov 2010

DSM wins Most Innovative Health Ingredient Award

DSM Nutritional Products triumphed at this year's HiE Excellence Awards with Fruitflow® - the first natural, scientifically substantiated solution for the promotion of healthy blood flow. As well as winning the Most Innovative Health Ingredient Award, DSM also won an Excellence Award in the category of Heart Health.

25 Nov 2010

Diogenes study investigates optimum diet composition for preventing, treating obesity

Researchers at the Faculty of Life Sciences (LIFE), University of Copenhagen, can now unveil the results of the world's largest diet study: If you want to lose weight, you should maintain a diet that is high in proteins with more lean meat, low-fat dairy products and beans and fewer finely refined starch calories such as white bread and white rice.

25 Nov 2010

USAID's Shah announces Bureau for Food Security; Bread for the World releases 2011 Hunger Report

USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah announced on Monday the creation of a Bureau for Food Security within the agency "to manage the Obama administration's Feed the Future initiative, which Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to turn over to USAID," National Journal Daily reports.

25 Nov 2010

Best diet: High protein and low good carbs

A group of European researchers have found that eating more protein and fewer refined carbohydrates helps to stay within normal weight. The team showed that men and women who had lost at least eight percent of their body weight on a low-calorie diet were kept on a maintenance diet high in protein and low in refined carbohydrates for six months. They were least likely to regain any weight, and were also the least likely to drop out of the study.

24 Nov 2010

More salt in many holiday meals, cardiologist warns

There can be far more salt in many holiday meals than people realize, and the proof can be found at hospital emergency rooms. Heart problems aggravated or unmasked after ingestion of a significant amount of salt tend to make holidays such as Thanksgiving, Passover and Christmas very busy times for health providers like University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) cardiologist Marc Klapholz, M.D., F.A.C.C.

24 Nov 2010

Prosperity Organic Foods launches online campaign to boost use of all natural Melt Buttery Spread

Prosperity Organic Foods, Inc., announced today it is launching the first of a series of online campaigns aimed at boosting the use of all natural Melt Buttery Spread as an ingredient in cooking and baking.

20 Nov 2010

Lancet World Report details new U.S. Global Development Policy, Global Health community's reaction

Lancet World Report examines elements of President Barack Obama's U.S. Global Development Policy strategy that he unveiled during the U.N. summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in September.

16 Nov 2010

Amount of healthy foods must be adapted to limit weight gain

Overweight children reported more frequent intake of healthy foods such as fruit, vegetables, fish, brown bread and potatoes as well as low-energy cheese and yoghurt compared with normal weight children.

9 Nov 2010

Medicare cuts become hot topic in mid-term election campaigns

Advertisements are focusing on Medicare cuts and using them as a rallying point to influence the election. The message, delivered by a series of nervous-looking older Americans, is uniform: Democratic Congressional candidates voted for billions of dollars in cuts to Medicare and let their constituents down.

2 Nov 2010

Bruegger's announces new partnership with Children's Miracle Network

Today Bruegger's Enterprises Inc. announced a new partnership with Children's Miracle Network, a charity that raises funds for 170 children's hospitals throughout North America.

27 Oct 2010

Guardian examines global food price volatility

Rising food prices and shortages could cause instability in many countries as the cost of staple foods and vegetables reached their highest levels in two years, with scientists predicting further widespread droughts and floods, the Guardian reports in a story examining the significance of rising food prices worldwide.

27 Oct 2010

New York Times profiles USAID Administrator Shah

The New York Times profiles USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah and examines the challenges that come with leading the development agency at this point in time.

26 Oct 2010

Eating whole grains and limiting refined grains reduce body fat

People who consume several servings of whole grains per day while limiting daily intake of refined grains appear to have less of a type of fat tissue thought to play a key role in triggering cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes, a new study suggests. Researchers at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Researcher Center on Aging (USDA HNRCA) at Tufts University observed lower volumes of visceral adipose tissue (VAT) in people who chose to eat mostly whole grains instead of refined grains.

21 Oct 2010

New sandwich wheat bread is an excellent source of antioxidants

In its continuing commitment as a leader in the bread industry, Texas-based Mrs Baird's becomes the first major baking company in its region to fortify its line of sandwich wheat breads, now providing an excellent source of antioxidant vitamins A and E.

20 Oct 2010

Researchers study anti-inflammatory effects of food on healthy individuals

For the first time researchers have found out what effect multiple, rather than just single, foods with anti-inflammatory effects have on healthy individuals. The results of a diet study show that bad cholesterol was reduced by 33 per cent, blood lipids by 14 per cent, blood pressure by 8 per cent and a risk marker for blood clots by 26 per cent. A marker of inflammation in the body was also greatly reduced, while memory and cognitive function were improved.

18 Oct 2010

Former U.N. Secretary-General, Gates Foundation CEO, Ethiopian official address World Food Prize conference

In a speech at the World Food Prize conference on Thursday, former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan discussed several topics related to food security and said that discrimination against women is limiting agricultural development in Africa, the Des Moines Register reports.

18 Oct 2010

Bread News and Research

With The CarbLovers Diet, eating carbohydrates foods is the only way to lose weight

New types of dietary fiber now under development

Overeating and drinking at holiday parties could affect those unaware of type 2 diabetes

School children design healthy sandwich to celebrate EMCC’s 25th anniversary

DSM wins Most Innovative Health Ingredient Award

Diogenes study investigates optimum diet composition for preventing, treating obesity

USAID's Shah announces Bureau for Food Security; Bread for the World releases 2011 Hunger Report

Best diet: High protein and low good carbs

More salt in many holiday meals, cardiologist warns

Prosperity Organic Foods launches online campaign to boost use of all natural Melt Buttery Spread

Lancet World Report details new U.S. Global Development Policy, Global Health community's reaction

Amount of healthy foods must be adapted to limit weight gain

Medicare cuts become hot topic in mid-term election campaigns

Bruegger's announces new partnership with Children's Miracle Network

Guardian examines global food price volatility

New York Times profiles USAID Administrator Shah

Eating whole grains and limiting refined grains reduce body fat

New sandwich wheat bread is an excellent source of antioxidants

Researchers study anti-inflammatory effects of food on healthy individuals

Former U.N. Secretary-General, Gates Foundation CEO, Ethiopian official address World Food Prize conference

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