| HANOI (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) -- Vietnamese health experts have called for urgent action to promote breastfeeding, government officials said Friday.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Democrats are moving forward on first lady Michelle Obama's vision for healthier school lunches, propelling legislation that calls for tougher standards governing food in school and more meals for hungry children.
(Associated Press) -- A Nestle subsidiary has agreed to stop advertising that its children's drink Boost Kid Essentials can prevent illness, increase immunity and reduce school absences, the Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday in announcing two settlements.
BEIJING (AP) -- Every summer during the height of the rainy season, villagers of all ages in a corner of southwestern China would suddenly die of cardiac arrest.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- What if my blood sugar's too high today? Is it time for my blood pressure pill? With nagging text messages or more customized two-way interactions, researchers are trying to harness the power of cell phones to help fight chronic diseases.
GENEVA (AP) -- An international food safety meeting set the first global limits for melamine contamination in food and infant formula, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
BERLIN (AP) -- Faced with a ballooning deficit in Germany's health care system, Chancellor Angela Merkel's government decided Tuesday to raise premiums and cut into the profits of doctors, dentists, hospitals and pharmaceutical manufacturers.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Most U.S. adults should eat less than a teaspoon of salt each day, but a new government report says just 1 in 18 meet that goal.
ATLANTA (AP) -- When an Associated Press reporter went scuba diving in the oil-streaked Gulf of Mexico this month, people commenting on websites worried about his health. But at the same time, the oil sure didn't bother some beachgoers in Alabama.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An advisory panel is encouraging the government to recommend that Americans reduce their salt intake -- even though they acknowledge that it won't be easy.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- School lunches that are good for kids -- and kids will actually eat? That's a job for America's top chefs.
LONDON (AP) -- Running on empty may not be such a bad idea after all.
ATLANTA (AP) -- How much money would it take to get you to lose some serious weight? $100? $500?
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Holy fish sticks! Scientists finally have some good news about fat in our foods.
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexico is looking to battle the bulging waistlines of its children by banning the sale of junk food in its schools, including many of the traditional treats generations of kids have grown up with.
CHICAGO (AP) -- A new analysis of U.S. health data links children's attention-deficit disorder with exposure to common pesticides used on fruits and vegetables.
(The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) -- Dr. George Mensah spent nearly a decade near the top at the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, helping lead the federal agency's efforts to fight strokes, heart attacks, heart disease and colorectal cancer.
TAIJI, Japan (AP) -- Residents of the dolphin-hunting village depicted in Oscar documentary "The Cove" have dangerously high mercury levels, likely because of their fondness for dolphin and whale meat, a government lab said Sunday.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal investigators are looking at a farm in Yuma, Ariz., as a possible source of a widespread E. coli outbreak in romaine lettuce, according to the distributor.
(The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) -- There's a sizable food trend simmering on the sidelines to declare diets free from meat one day a week called "Meatless Monday."
GENEVA (AP) -- North Korea needs to strengthen its health system by modernizing medical equipment, ensuring sufficient supply of medicines and paying greater attention to malnutrition, the World Health Organization's director said Friday.
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- County officials in Silicon Valley trying to curb childhood obesity voted Tuesday to ban restaurants from giving away toys and other freebies that often come with high-calorie meals aimed at kids.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Sixteen food companies plan to cut the amount of salt in bacon, flavored rice and dozens of other products as part of a national effort to reduce American's sodium consumption by 20 percent.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Four common bad habits combined -- smoking, drinking too much, inactivity and poor diet -- can age you by 12 years, sobering new research suggests.
(USA TODAY) -- Worried about your cholesterol? You may need to cut back on your sugar intake, a new study suggests.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration says it will consider a new call Tuesday to force food makers to gradually cut the salt hidden inside their products -- but don't expect less salty soups, pizzas or pastas any time soon.
(Associated Press) -- Sodium levels can be high in packaged foods, and even higher in some restaurant meals. Government guidelines set 2,300 milligrams of sodium as the maximum daily intake, but the Institute of Medicine says people need just 1,500 mg a day, even less if they're over age 50. Many companies have introduced "low sodium" brands in response to increased concern about salt.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- School lunches have been called many things, but a group of retired military officers is giving them a new label: national security threat.
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Returning from Mexico, Michelle Obama made a brief stop Thursday in San Diego to visit a community garden farmed by international refugees that she called a model for building healthy communities across the nation and around the world.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Americans suffered a bit less food poisoning last year.
TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- A new study estimates that if more Canadians increased their intake of vitamin D, the death rate could fall by 16 per cent, or as many as 37,000 premature deaths a year.
CHICAGO (AP) -- One hour of moderate to vigorous exercise a day can help teens beat the effects of a common obesity-related gene with the nickname "fatso," according to a new European study.
MIAMI (AP) -- Jamie Oliver is using fresh fruit and vegetables to try to win the hearts, or at least the fatty arteries, of a West Virginia city. Rachael Ray is working to reform school lunch. And Paula Deen, queen of Southern-fried goodness, recently taught an auditorium of kids how to cook and eat healthy.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Small taxes on soda do little to reduce soft drink consumption or prevent childhood obesity, but larger levies probably would, according to new research.
(Canadian Press) -- LONDON - The Easter Bunny might lower your chances of having a heart problem. According to a new study, small doses of chocolate every day could decrease your risk of having a heart attack or stroke by nearly 40 per cent.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration has said it more than once, and they'll say it again: Don't drink raw milk.
(The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) -- It's easy to understand why nutrition advice includes cautionary tales of restaurant menu items that deliver more than a day's calorie limit with overblown portions and whopping amounts of sugar, salt and fat.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- In a gym at a tiny college in the capital of the most obese state in the nation, state Rep. John Hines dropped his chest to the floor, let out an "Aaaarrrrgggh!" and forced through a few final pushups.
(Variety) -- Down with popcorn! (Or buttered popcorn, anyway.)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- That Caesar salad you're about to eat? It's 800 calories, and that's without the croutons. The fettuccine alfredo? A whopping 1,220 calories. You may choose to ignore the numbers, but soon it's going to be tough to deny you saw them.
(USA TODAY) -- Most babies should take a daily vitamin D supplement, a new study shows.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Department of Agriculture has failed to enforce penalties against some who falsely marketed foods as organic, according to an internal department investigation.
(The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) -- Can we talk? Constipation used to be whispered about privately, but today it seems like everyone is discussing digestive health and ways to keep things "regular."
WASHINGTON (The New York Times News Service) -- Democratic leaders have agreed to advance part of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's plan to put food recall information in customers' mailboxes and on grocery store shelves.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Germs in the gut may help drive appetite, says new research into the link between obesity and bacteria.
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