Canada's federal government is putting the country's food producers on a strict carbohydrate labeling diet that could knock a number of new product lines off grocery store shelves next year.
A study shows that daily use of calcium would prevent 734,000 hip fractures and save $13.9 billion in health care costs over the next five years. Daily use of folic acid by women would prevent 600 cases of neural tube birth defects yearly.
Nutrients in oranges, lemons, tangerines, grapefruit and their peels have the ability to fight the nation's top killing diseases -- heart disease, cancer and obesity.
Researchers contend that trans fat -- coveted by cooks for boosting the shelflife and texture of foods -- increases the chance of heart disease. Now it is also giving the restaurant industry higher blood pressure.
Drinking a glass of red wine a day may cut a man's risk of prostate cancer in half, and the protective effect appears to be strongest against the most aggressive forms of the disease.
Wild Oats Markets Inc., a leading national natural and organic foods retailer, announced Andre Halston has joined the company as vice president of Foodservice and corporate executive chef.
Kenneth G. Romanzi has joined Ocean Spray Cranberries Inc. as senior vice president and chief operating officer of the cooperative's domestic food and beverage business.
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