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: Health Department Launches Ad Campaign Encouraging Consumers to Purchase Lower Sodium Packaged Foods
Nearly 90 percent of Americans consume too much sodium, much of which comes from packaged foods
The Health Department has launched a new ad campaign encouraging consumers to compare nutrition labels and choose products with less sodium. The ads, running in subway cars, highlight…
What does 2,000 calories look like? Be surprised
In 2006, Terry Huang, a researcher at the National Institutes of Health, proposed a completely new approach to combating childhood obesity: Architecture. VMDO Architects, in collaboration with the University of Virginia and University of Nebraska, redesigned a 1950s-era elementary school in rural Virginia to encourage healthy eating and physical activity among all students.
Healthy Ottawa: Planning in the 21st century
Check out these easy-to-use apps and websites to use while planning your trip to the grocery store:
EatWise: Offers fun, nutrition related tips with a main focus on Nutrition Value Tables for common household foods. Know what you’re eating!
EaTipster: A simpler option for the…
Healthy Ottawa: Ontario Healthy Kids Panel Makes Recommendations on Childhood Obesity
Ontario’s Healthy Kids Panel released a report - No Time to Wait: The Healthy Kids Strategy, to the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care with recommendations to meet the government’s target of reducing childhood obesity by 20 per cent over the next five years.
Why…
Don’t hold back on the olive oil, a Spanish study concludes.
Spanish Test: Mediterranean Diet Shines In Clinical Study
Pour on the olive oil in good conscience, and add some nuts while you’re at it.
A careful test of the so-called Mediterranean diet involving more than 7,000 people at a high risk of having heart attacks and strokes found the diet reduced them when compared with a low-fat diet. A regular diet of Mediterranean cuisine also reduced the risk of dying.
The findings, published online by The New England Journal of Medicine, come from a study conducted right in the heart of Mediterranean country: Spain.
A group of men and women, ages 55 to 80 at the start of the study, were randomly assigned to a low-fat diet or one of two variations of the Mediterranean diet: one featuring a lot of extra-virgin olive oil (more than a quarter cup a day) and the other including lots of nuts (more than an ounce a day of walnuts, almonds and hazelnuts).
The Mediterranean diet is rich in fish, grains, nuts, fruits and vegetables. The diet is low in dairy products, red meat and processed foods.
(From Shots, Health News from NPR)
The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food
On the evening of April 8, 1999, a long line of Town Cars and taxis pulled up to the Minneapolis headquarters of Pillsbury and discharged 11 men who controlled America’s largest food companies. Nestlé was in attendance, as were Kraft and Nabisco, General Mills and Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola and Mars. Rivals any other day, the C.E.O.’s and company presidents had come together for a rare, private meeting. On the agenda was one item: the emerging obesity epidemic and how to deal with it. While the atmosphere was cordial, the men assembled were hardly friends. Their stature was defined by their skill in fighting one another for what they called “stomach share” — the amount of digestive space that any one company’s brand can grab from the competition.
(From The New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary-science-of-junk-food.html?ref=magazine
Happy Valentine’s Infographic from the Ohio University of Public Health. I would switch the graphic regarding the portion size with a safe sex practice theme. Come on, it’s Valentines Day…
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