Japan manages a rare feat for a developed country when it comes to feeding its children—high scores for nutrition but very low obesity rates. One major key? School lunches.
Oct 15, 2019
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Recent nationwide polls show Americans are divided about soda taxes. Overall, people tend to be more supportive of calorie-labeling and removing sugary drinks from schools, but less so for a general soda tax.
Oct 9, 2019
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Latin America and the Caribbean is facing an obesity epidemic while paradoxically the number of people facing food insecurity in the region continues to rise, the OECD and FAO warned in a report on Monday.
Jul 8, 2019
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Offering free refills from self-service soda fountains has been uncommon in France, but now the practice is illegal.
Jan 27, 2017
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South Korea's parliament has approved an 80 percent hike in cigarette prices aimed at cutting consumption in a nation with one of the world's highest male smoking rates.
Dec 3, 2014
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Public health researchers at the University of Adelaide say office workers can benefit themselves and their families by going home on time as much as possible, to reduce work-related illness.
Nov 18, 2014
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France is considering reducing the time mothers spend in maternity wards as part of efforts to cut spending.
Jun 26, 2014
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A third of the world's rich countries cut health spending between 2009 and 2011, according to a probe of 33 advanced economies published on Thursday.
Nov 20, 2013
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(HealthDay)—Survival odds for black American infants are considerably worse than for white babies, a new U.S. study finds.
Aug 8, 2013
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A test for hormone-disrupting pollutants, originally developed at the University of California, Davis, has been approved as an international standard by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development as well as ...
Jan 29, 2013
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