#FTC Proposes Stricter Guidelines on Food Ads for Children Regulators are asking food makers and restaurant companies to make a choice:
The Federal trade commission has proposed sweeping new guidelines that could push the food industry to overhaul how it advertises cereal, soda pop, snacks, restaurant meals and other foods to children.
regulators are taking aim at a range of tactics used to market foods high in sugar,
Regulators are asking food makers and restaurant companies to make a choice: make your products healthier
or junk food,#said Dale Kunkel, a communications professor at the University of Arizona who studies the marketing of childrens food.
This forces Toucan Sam to be associated with healthier products.##The guidelines, released by the Federal trade commission, encompass a broad range of marketing efforts,
a trade group that represents marketers like Kraft Foods and Campbell soup. By explicitly tying advertising to childhood obesity,
Ronald Mcdonald and the movie and television characters used to promote food. It also raises the question of
Scott Faber, a vice president of the Grocery Manufacturers Association, a group that represents food makers,
said that ads for packaged foods on television shows aimed at children 2 to 11 had dropped significantly since 2004,
and that the ads more often showed healthier types of foods. He said companies had changed also many recipes to reduce salt,
Many food companies participate in an industry-led effort, the Childrens Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative,
The guidelines were created at the request of Congress and written by the commission, the Food and Drug Administration, the Agriculture department and the Centers for Disease Control.
The guidelines call for foods that are advertised to children to meet two basic requirements. They would have to include certain healthful ingredients, like whole grains, fresh fruits and vegetables
and many packaged foods on the shelves today would have a hard time meeting them. In an initial phase in period,
the guidelines call for many foods to have no more than 210 milligrams of sodium a serving,
while main dishes and meals, including both restaurant food and packaged food, could have no more than 450 milligrams.
Today, a 15-ounce can of Chef Boyardee beef ravioli has two servings, with 750 milligrams of sodium per serving.
The federal agencies acknowledged that a large percentage of food products currently in the marketplace would not meet the principles.#
The Food and Drug Administrations announcement came after the Court of appeals for the D c. Circuit issued a decision
but its scary for our food system. This is no surprise considering the USDAS treatment of GMO sugar beets,
The next time EPA and the pesticide industry tell you all is well with the food system
Micro agronomy is based on the notion that a decentralized food growers network will lead to greater biodiversity,
The health benefits go beyond just small amounts of food, to improving air quality, the natural environment and providing healthy exercise.
or can we all begin to grow our own food supply? As a community we can learn from each other
#Rising Food and Gas Prices Could Slow Economic growth Americans paying more for food and gas.
U s. consumer inflation rises as Americans are paying more for food and gas. This trend that could slow economic growth in the months ahead according to a new report.
Excluding the volatile food and gas categories the so-called core index rose 0. 1 percent
but the steep rise in food and gas prices could limit their ability to purchase discretionary goods and services.
Food prices rose 0. 8 percent last month, the largest increase in almost three years.
and food will have only a modest and temporary impact on inflation. Nothing here to change the Feds view that the surge in commodity prices can be ignored
Dr Bahram Arjmandi, of the department of nutrition, food and exercise sciences at Florida University, described the results as incredible#In the study,
Now scientists believe that the same idea could apply to food labelling such as organic. Jenny Wan-Chen Lee, a graduate student in Cornell University, in New york, said research has shown that people tend to consume more calories at fast-food restaurants claiming to serve healthier#foods,
compared to the amount they eat at a typical burger bar. She asked 144 subjects at the local shopping centre to compare
#Participants were asked then to rate each food for 10 different attributes (e g.,, overall taste perception of fat content) using a scale from 1 to 9. She also asked them to estimate the number of calories in each food item.
She found that on average people rated the organic labelled a full mark up the scale when it came to health.
They feed on a wide range of important food crops, #Hoelmer says. Crops such as sweet corn, apples, pears, grapes, berries, peaches, tomatoes and peppers appear to be the most vulnerable.
Two USDA agencies#the National Institute of Food and Agriculture and the Agricultural research service#fund projects at universities and research centers to study how to control
We already know that each species of Trissolcus only recognizes certain kinds of stink bugs as suitable food for their offspring.
#Food Dyeâ##s May be linked to Hyperactivity in Children Artificial dyes in food are limited not just to candy.
The list of foods made pretty by chemicals now includes pickles, bagels and port wine cheese balls.
#said Kantha Shelke, co-president of the food research firm Corvus Blue. Or cheese#cheese is naturally a pale color
since ancient times to make food more appealing to the eye. But the practice has invaded
On Wednesday, an advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration will begin a two-day meeting to discuss the science behind artificial dyes
There are sometimes nine different dyes in a food product#said Laura Anderko of Georgetown University Medical center,
#Two recent studies sponsored by The british government found that children given foods made with some artificial dyes and a food preservative,
The European parliament required foods containing the tested dyes to carry a label warning that products may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children.#
but permitted its continued use in foods. Food industry officials say artificial dyes are safe and contend that The british studies
unlike many other ingredients used in foods. All of the major safety bodies globally have reviewed the available science
driven in part by consumer demands for healthier food. Frito-Lay is promoting its decision to get rid of artificial colors and flavors in more than 60 of its snack products, substituting ingredients such as beet juice and carrots for Red No. 40, one of the artificial dyes.
and this new manufacturing plant will further promote the conversion to natural colors by large food and beverage manufacturers,#
In this country, the use of dyes took off with the popularity of processed foods after WORLD WAR II,
said Shelke, the food scientist. Manufacturers originally made processed foods for the military, Shelke said,
and after the war, they turned their sights on the consumer market. But housewives buying products for their families were more discerning than soldiers,
The manufacturers wanted to make sure the food would look good, #she said. They made tomato juice
what a food looks like.##Via Washington post Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati
#â Blackberry Thumbâ##â#New Health Hazard Blackberry thumb Tennis elbow, writers block and even athletes foot are problems than can cause considerable discomfort and more than a little embarrassment.
because people visit theaters to consume movies, not food. Were not restaurants where people go to eat
but there are hidden dangers in many common foods. Poisons that make you sick, paralyze and even kill you lurk behind some of our favorites#10.
cassava (also called manioc or yucca) is the third most consumed food in the world.
Ultimately, Pepsi plans to also use orange peels, oat hulls, potato scraps and other leftovers from its food business.
Traditional plastic, called PET, is used in beverage bottles, food pouches, coatings and other common products.
The size of the hand is less important than the size of the food its trying to feed you...
#Why World Food Prices Are poised to Keep Climbing In February, world food prices reached the highest level on record.
Soaring food prices are already a source of spreading hunger and political unrest, and it appears likely that they will climb further in the months ahead#As a result of an extraordinarily tight grain situation,
this years harvest will be one of the most closely watched in years. Last year, the world produced 2, 180 million tons of grain.
#The Best Foods (and Strategies) for Eating at Your Computer Everybody eats at their computer at some point.
We recently asked you what your favorite keyboard-friendly foods were, and you guys had a lot of great suggestions#oth of good foods to eat
and strategies to keeping your workspace clean. Here are some of our favorites#Good Foods that Dont Make a Mess Many of you wrote in with some great food suggestions that wont make a mess
(or will be easy to clean up). Some of the best included: Wraps and Burritos, if youre skilled
Foods that act as glue#:#A number of you noted that certain foods, like mashed potatoes
and refried beans, are great not only for their lack of mess, but because they can act as a kind of glue#that holds more difficult food like rice
or peas easier to eat without getting all over the place. Cereal, in a cup or a bottle:
All in all, the best foods are ones you can eat with utensils (so you dont get anything on your hands),
foods that come in large pieces rather than small (so you can easily pick it off
and solid, dry foods that arent crumbly. If you have some food that you cant eat with traditional utensils,
chopsticks work really well as a replacement. Strategies Many of you also had great suggestions of ways to get around the food problem by protecting
and cleaning your keyboard, rather than avoiding certain foods. What I personally do at home is use my sliding keyboard tray to my advantage.
My keyboard slides out from under the top of my desk, so when Im eating,
fatty foods and sipping sugary drinks, like many these days. He has the pot belly to prove it,
a caged monkeys food intake is much easier for researchers to count and control. Nonhuman primates dont lie to you,#said Dr. Grove,
#To allow monitoring of their food intake, some of the obese monkeys are kept in individual cages for months or years,
After eight weeks, the animals reduced their food intake 40 percent and lost 13 percent of their weight, without apparent heart problems.
or tripled their food intake when they got the drug. The surprising result prompted Pfizer,
and are under fewer restrictions than both foods and drugs. Manufacturers claim their products will enhance both mental and physical performance.
with one containing food each time. They them switched the food from bucket to bucket, while also alternating the colours and,
eventually, changing the shapes of the buckets. The sheep learnt to recognise different patterns in colours
#Restaurant Makes Handbags From The Cow You Eat Fashion Directly From Your Food Forget about plunking down thousands of dollars
For the tastiest veggies with the best nutrition, try growing a few of these nutrient-dense foods in your own garden.
but chocolate is being heralded as the latest super food#by the scientists who carried out a study.
and antioxidants gram-for-gram than fruit juice and provides far more nutritional goodness than food experts had thought previously.
as super foods,#said lead scientist Debra Miller. However, the findings do not alter the fact that their favourite is high in fat and sugar,
meaning dieticians say it should be balanced with less yummy foods such as brown rice and pulses, say the scientists.
and as a food source. With the rivers drying up, their livelihoods are disappearing. And of course there are also the species who call the rainforests home#their habitat is disappearing from drought in the same way that logging industries are cutting down wide swaths of trees.
or drinking too quickly, consuming spicy or cold food, drinking alcohol, or by quick breaths because of surprises, laughs, coughs, or sneezes.
By now, most of us have read the miscellaneous (numerous) statements from companies like Whole Foods, Organic Valley, Stonyfield,
Below is Walter Robb, co-president of Whole Foods, and Gary Hirshberg, CEO of Stonyfields early contributions to the discussion (you can read the entire transcript of the meeting online.)
Alas, no. going back through the December 2010 and January 2011 archives of Whole Foods, Stonyfield,
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#Global Food Prices Hit Record Levels Sugar is among the items in the FAOS food price index.
Global food prices are moving ever higher, hitting record levels last month as a jittery market reacted to unpredictable weather and tight supplies, according to a United nations report released Thursday.
It was the seventh month in a row of food price increases, according to the United nations Food and agriculture organization,
And with some basic food stocks low, prices will probably continue reaching new heights, at least until the results of the harvest next summer are known,
#Scattered bright spots in the report led experts to suggest that a repeat of the 2008 food riots stemming from similar sharp price increases might not be imminent.
Riots and demonstrations erupting across the Middle east are inspired not directly by rising food prices alone, experts noted,
Egypt was among more than a dozen countries that experienced food riots in 2008. The F. A o. price index
which tracks 55 food commodities for export, rose 3. 4 percent in January, hitting its highest level
Countries not dependent on food imports are affected less by global volatility. Still, food prices are expected to rise 2 percent to 3 percent in the United states this year.
Four main factors are seen as driving prices higher: weather, higher demand, smaller yields and crops diverted to biofuels.
Food prices are not only rising but they are also volatile and will continue this way into the future,
as one billion people already go without sufficient food daily. Derek Headey, an economist with the International Food Policy Research Institute, noted that in 2007 and 2008 many African countries were hit hard by soaring import bills,
as were nations spread across the world, like Afghanistan, Pakistan and Ecuador. But some of the worlds largest and poorest countries experienced rapid economic growth and only modest food inflation,
so the number of people facing food insecurity in nations like China, India, Indonesia and Vietnam actually went down at that time,
he said. This time around there is still strong economic growth in these countries, but inflation is much more of a problem,
So it is possible that the impact could be worse in 2011, especially if food prices stay high.#
Kids Closer to Nature Campaign The survey complied by Onepoll was commission by Arla Foods UK,
Worlds Fourth Largest Dairy Cooperativearla Foods is headquartered in Denmark, and lay claim to being the fourth largest dairy cooperative in the world, with 7, 625 Danish and Swedish farmers as cooperative owners.
textile rolls and food-processing equipment, says he can barely find machinists who know how to handle manual machines.
and nothing less than obliterate our choice as organic consumers to be assured that we are avoiding genetically modified organisms in our food#The Problem with GE Alfalfa GE (genetically engineered) alfalfa has been modified to resist the effects of the weed killer glyphosate, also known as Roundup.
Food & Water Watch is running a campaign urging people to send letters to the President asking him to step in.
but other GMO foods as well. Stay tuned. LINK Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati o
#Dairy industry Fights FDAÂ##s Proposed New Drug Testing for Milk How could there possibly be antibiotics in my milk?
#New Traceability Rule Represents Major Adjustment for U s. Food industry Where does your food come from?
In response to a new federal food safety law and growing consumer interest, vast amounts of new data are being generated about the complicated path that food takes from field to supermarket shelf.
A provision of the federal food safety law passed last year requires that all players in the countrys food supply chain be able to quickly trace from
whom they received a food product and to whom they sent it. Theyll have to maintain that information in digital form,
The one step forward, one step back#traceability requirement#for processed food and produce#is designed to make it easier for the Food
and swiftly remove it from the food supply. The new requirement represents a major adjustment for some parts of the nations food system,
as the government imposes standards and electronic record-keeping on an industry where small players still rely on handshakes and paper invoices.
The FDA has had trouble quickly pinpointing the source of national outbreaks of food-borne illness a task complicated by a lengthy food supply chain where tomatoes might change hands five times from farm to store.
Many in the food business already are using traceability technology, mostly relying on bar codes that can be affixed after harvesting to a piece of fruit or a crate.
which covers food other than meat, poultry and egg products. They are competing to develop the tracking technology
#said David Acheson, former assistant commissioner for food protection at the FDA. Somebody is probably going to make a bundle of money out of this.#
and adopting it to the food business. He said traceability helps not only with safety but also allows companies to hold their partners along the chain accountable for moving food quickly
and avoiding spoilage. Its about allowing people to make more intelligent decisions by providing accurate
But according to a 2009 investigation by the Department of health and Human Servicess inspector general, most food facilities surveyed did not meet those requirements
who are interested increasingly in the way food is produced. Harvestmark, based in California, has developed a two-dimensional bar code sticker that can be placed on individual fruits and vegetables or packaging.
and enter the number from the sticker to learn the path the food has taken and other information the farmer chooses to share,
With very high-profile food recalls, cellphones and iphones, people have been trained that they can access information very quickly.
Not only does the technology provide information about the food, but it also allows the consumer to send a comment to the farmer,
Its about using technology to put people back in touch with the people who grow their food.#
However UK scientists insisted that the decline of bees is due to a number of factors, such as disease or a lack of suitable food sources in the countryside,
Well you may be surprised at the foods with the highest percentages of calcium#More and more people are rethinking the tried and true calcium supplementation after finding that it could increase heart attack risk significantly.
It all comes back to a whole foods diet with foods loaded with calcium like figs (506 mg per serving), sesame seeds (88 mg), flaxseeds (255 mg), almonds (266 mg),
Youll notice that none of these food choices include dairy, a pleasant surprise. The official recommendation for Americans is 1, 000 mg/day from ages 19 to 50 and 1, 200 mg/day after that.
#Is Eating Insects the Answer to Reducing our Food Footprint? Flickr user avlxyz tries an insect at Chiang Mai bazaar Hungry for a grasshopper taco?
and health (quite ignoring the fact that we are all eating bugs already in foods meeting prescribed contamination limits).
Of course, no campaign to market a new food trend can get around the fundamental question: how do they taste?
#Chicago Combats Food Deserts and Childhood Obesity One Seed at a time Chicagoans that vote for their favorite seeds, get free seeds to plant in their gardens.
It seems like an oxymoron that childhood obesity could occur in food deserts, but in much of the country thats exactly whats happened.
Food deserts, often located in impoverished urban environments, are areas where residents have little access to fresh fruits
and make these infamous food deserts a thing of the past#Neighborspace, Chicagos land trust of community gardens,
Its about working from seed to table#in order to break up food deserts and fight childhood obesity all in the same breath.
Researchers used data from a British government survey of 7, 014 families who recorded their food purchases in a diary over two-week periods in 2003 and 2004.
Food lovers have attended these clandestine feasts for years, but the general publics growing appetite for adventurous eating has caused the popularity of these events to rise
Theyre renegade restaurants,#said Alison Bing, food writer and San francisco Lonely Planet guidebook author, who has tracked the phenomenon.
Mr. Rabins described foraging as collecting food that wont run away.##The exception was the wild boar,
He has taped segments for two coming Travel Channel programs, Bizarre Foods#and The Wild Within,#where he prepared roadkill raccoon.#(
As a food journalist, she considers inspection scores essential when covering restaurants, and she raised possible concerns about fair wages and compliance with environmental laws.
In the meantime, they say they are following the same food preparation rules of any clean restaurant.
His passion for foraged food, like city snails to make escargot, seems more of a personal calling.
and drinkify snacks as the next frontier in food and beverage convenience.##A professor of nutrition at New york University uses fewer made-up buzz words in her assessment of the product.
They start out with real food, so lets give them credit for applesauce and mashed-up bananas,
and nutrition this year. 1. Junk food is as addictive as heroin. A study was released just showing that over a period of five days consuming junk food,
your brain becomes desensitized to the euphoria of junk food and sugar and needs more and more of it.
The same pattern happens with drug use, specifically heroin. NO WONDER people have trouble losing weight.
These are ALSO the same foods that have created the obesity epidemic in this country. 2. Top foods keeping your ass wide.
3. Genetically modified foods (GMOS) lead to obesity. Yup, we have fat rats. In a long-term study, rats that were feed genetically modified corn became obese compared to rats that were fed natural corn.
so it s better but sometimes not so much. 9. Genetically modified food leads to cancer.
contributing to the company s financial success as consumers have demanded purer foods. But Mr. Sechler said that nothing he had used as a substitute in the past worked as well as oregano oil.
At the same time, consumers are growing increasingly sophisticated about the content of the foods that they eat.
retailers like Costco, Whole Foods and Trader Joe s, as well as some restaurant chains, complain that they cannot get enough antibiotic-free meat.
from heightened interest in whole and natural foods to growing concerns about medical problems like diabetes,
among other things, called for limiting the use of medically important human antibiotics in food animals#and supporting the use of such antibiotics in animals only for those uses that are considered necessary for assuring animal health.#
Analysis of Food and Drug Administration data by the Center for Science in the Public interest found that 80 percent of all antibiotics sold in the United states are used in animals.
the smell or taste of food. The general premise is that these sensory and cognitive technologies will convert computers from glorified calculators into true thinking machines.
#This understanding of the chemical elements of food could help people get healthier by subbing in something that tastes like milk chocolate
It s still up for debate whether vertical farms are more efficient at producing food than traditional greenhouses,
The total food produced depends on the amount of light reaching plants. Although vertical farms can hold more plants,
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and that the U s. Food and Drug Administration, which is charged with regulating product content, is considering a similar policy in this country.
In the next 40 years there s going to be a 70 percent increase in demand for food worldwide,
Over the last few years, sustainable farming startups have managed to get loans from companies like Whole Foods,
Food grown closer to where consumers buy lowers transportation costs. That can help offset the higher cost of growing food organically.
Seedstock s conference was a chance for farmers entrepreneurs and distributors who have found success,
Another health factor at work might be unprocessed the nature of the food they consume: as Trichopoulou observed,
but we will have food on the table and still have fun with family and friends.
You asked me about food, and yes, we do eat better here than in America.
Food here is enjoyed always in combination with conversation.##In the United states, when it comes to improving health,
to you it shall be for food.##But again, the key insight might be more about social structure than about the diet itself.
most accessible foods are also the most healthful #and that your ancestors have spent centuries developing ways to make them taste good.
if we eat the right food or do the right workout, we ll be healthier,
At the same time, access to food has exploded. Despite the island s relative isolation, its tortuous roads and the fierce independence of its inhabitants, the American food culture, among other forces, is beginning to take root in Ikaria.
Village markets are now selling potato chips and soda, which in my experience is replacing tea as the drink of choice among younger Ikarians.
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