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Clinton’s Nutrition Deal Cuts Junk Food on School Menu

... In May, the alliance announced an agreement with beverage industry leaders to sell only water, unsweetened juice and low-fat and nonfat milk in elementary and middle schools. The challenge the group is facing is a problem which arose in the mid-1980s, when financially struggling schools across the country...

Science Behind Health Benefits of Moderate Beer Consumption

...e are health benefits from moderate consumption of beverage alcohol,' said Storey. 'However, there is an enormous challenge in communicating the potential benefits of moderate alcohol consumption that does not encourage excess consumption among drinkers or encourage non-drinkers to drink alcohol. There are tr...

Small Diet Changes can Help Teens Trim Down

...changes in diet such as decreasing sugar-sweetened beverage consumption, eating lower-calorie cereal alternati...ned beverages dropped by 82 percent in the low-cal beverage group compared to the control group. The low-cal choices included sugar-free sodas, non-caloric le...

A Bad Swirl for the Good Old Whiff–Coffee

... medication in most of the cases, in addition to a beverage with caffeine additives. The researchers by way of their study sought to caution youngsters and others alike about the dangers of caffeine abuse. They said “Recreational abuse of caffeine or other pharmaceuticals is not safe. Young people taking ca...

Are You Health-Conscious or Tongue- Conscious?

...ants prefer the former over the latter." Food and beverage manager of a prominent restaurant located in Kanpur, Puneet Bhalla said, "It's not practically possible for a chef to have the calorie count of everything on his finger tips, but most of them know what is good for health and what's not." Shibani Ah...

Marketing in Schools may Discourage Healthy Nutrition among Students

...centives from soft drink bottlers; and exclusive// beverage contracts may discourage a 'nutrition-friendly' en...nk company incentives from distributors, exclusive beverage contracts with the schools and subscriptions to Channel One, a free 12-minute news broadcast with 2 ...

Risk Factors of Drinking Before, and During, Pregnancy

... timing of alcohol consumption, its frequency, the beverage size and type, all appear to be crucial elements of identifying risk. A new survey has found that nearly 80 percent of non-Indigenous West Australian women consumed alcohol during the three months before pregnancy; nearly half had not planned their p...

Coffee: Is It Good or Bad for You?

If your morning beverage of choice is coffee, recent research provides an //extra perk. Like much-publicized green tea, which has garnered considerable attention due to its high antioxidant content, researchers have found that coffee is quite high in antioxidants. Antioxi...

Japanese 'bilk' the Cow for Beer

...w boiling temperature. Except for milk, the new beverage contains the same ingredients as lager or ale, and it looks like regular filtered beer after fermentation. But, as the producers say, it tastes fruity and has a distinctive aftertaste. The new brew will be sold in small 0.33 litre bottles, and will...

Good News For Chocolate Lovers

...ung and healthy women to find out if flavonol rich beverage has any effect on the cognitive function. Though it did not enhance their brain activity, a steady blood flow to the brain was noticed at least for two hours. This could be useful in older population suffering from cognitive disorders and strokes. ...

Reasonable Quantities Of Wine May Increase Longevity

...ne than with men who did not consume any alcoholic beverage at all. Meanwhile the life expectancy in wine drinkers was 2 years more than the users of other alcoholic beverages. In addition, the consumption of red wine is said to bring down stroke or heart attack. Though this research seemed to highlight the...

New Study Suggests Special Cocoa may Lead to Sustained Improvement in Blood Vessel Function

Drinking a specially-made cocoa beverage daily may have the potential to reverse impairment...ts on health. The cocoa in the flavanol-rich cocoa beverage in this study was prepared using the Cocoapro process to enable the higher and specific levels of co...

Canadian University Students Vote Against Coca-Cola

...move Coca-Cola from their campus with an alternate beverage supplier, according to India Resource Center, an i...serious allegations were made in India against the beverage giant that it uses pesticides in its popular drinks. It is also alleged that the company's operat...

Fluids Could Aid in Weight Loss

...ups a day. Beer lovers need not fully strike the beverage from their evening diet, but beer is a poor thirst quencher and contains a lot of calories. Source-IANS/V...

National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine Report Calls for More Dairy Foods at School

...y in school so it's important that school food and beverage offerings provide the nutrients they need." Milk and milk products provide more than 70 percent of the calcium consumed by Americans. The Dietary Guidelines recommend children ages 9 and older consume three servings of low-fat or fat-free and milk ...

Cider can Ward Off Cancer and Heart Disease

...ider a day could keep the doctor away. Cider, a beverage made from the fermented juices of apples or pears, is one of the oldest alcoholic drinks and has a 2,000-year-old tradition. It originated in Britain but is now produced wherever apple cultivation is high like in the US, New Zealand and Australia. ...

Nutrient-rich Dairy Beverages an Emerging Market

...stated that overall global growth rate in food and beverage products would vary significantly within regions and categories. In the beverage category, yoghurt-based drinks topped the list, which showed double-digit growth. Today's lifestyl...

Multinationals Exploit Groundwater Sources, and People Suffer

...s learned that Nestl, the world's largest food and beverage company, intended to build a 1 million-square-foot water-bottling facility in McCloud. Without any public input or environmental impact assessment, the multinational was given a 100-year contract to pump 1,600 acre-feet of spring water a year and a s...

Red Wine Lessens the Risk of Prostate Cancer

... step further by evaluating each type of alcoholic beverage independently. Here the news was surprisingwine drinking was linked to a reduced risk of prostate cancer. And when white wine was compared with red, red had the most benefit. Even low amounts seemed to help, and for every additional glass of red wi...

Four Cups of Coffee a Day may Cut Down the Risk of Gout

Coffee is widely consumed beverage and is regularly investigated and debated for its impact on health conditions from breast cancer to heart disease. Among its complex effects on the body, coffee or its components have been linked to lower insulin and uric acid levels on a short-term...

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