Health
Looking for calorie labels on menus? Not until 2017
Wondering how many calories are in that hamburger? Chain restaurants still don't have to tell you, despite a 6-year-old law requiring calorie labels on menus.
Mar 28, 2016
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Electronic cards to make WIC easier to use
Pregnant women and parents using the Women, Infants and Children program will have an easier time buying food at the grocery store.
Feb 29, 2016
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Grocery chains leave food deserts barren, AP analysis finds
As part of Michelle Obama's healthy eating initiative, a group of major food retailers promised in 2011 to open or expand 1,500 grocery or convenience stores in and around neighborhoods with no supermarkets by 2016. By their ...
Dec 7, 2015
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House bill would limit some calorie labels
Supermarkets and pizza chains would get some relief from government calorie labeling rules under legislation approved by a House committee Wednesday.
Nov 18, 2015
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Opening supermarket in food desert changes diet, study finds
Opening a full-service grocery store in a neighborhood deemed to be a food desert may encourage nearby residents to improve their diet—but not because they use the new supermarket, according to a new RAND Corporation study.
Nov 2, 2015
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Packaged food purchases at non-grocery stores are up but nutritional quality is down
What foods are Americans really buying, where are they buying them, and how nutritious are these purchases? A new study conducted by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has determined that consumers ...
Oct 5, 2015
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Appalachian residents adopt heart-healthy eating habits through cooking intervention
West Liberty resident Bonnie Burton describes her husband as a "meat-and-potatoes" eater who shuns broccoli and other green vegetables.
Sep 24, 2015
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Why Americans are so obsessed with pumpkin spice everything—according to science
It was a humid, sticky 32°C when I made a quick trip to the grocery store in shorts and a tank top earlier this week. Despite the heat, however, the store clearly wanted me to think it was the fall season – and for us ...
Sep 14, 2015
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Blue Bell resumes selling ice cream after listeria recall
Blue Bell ice cream is back.
Aug 31, 2015
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Research suggests retail meat is a potential vehicle for disease-causing Klebsiella
Chicken, turkey and pork sold in grocery stores harbors disease-causing bacteria known as Klebsiella pneumoniae, according to a new study. The research, which was published online today in the journal Clinical Infectious ...
Jul 23, 2015
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