When you’re shopping in the grocery store, you may notice that food packages are always labeled with the latest buzz words. Reading and understanding a nutrition label doesn’t require a degree in nutrition, but it does require that you look beyond the fancy claims on the front of the box. If you know how to read between the lines of the marketing spin, you too can know how to make the most nutritious choices without having to read the fine print.
By law, food labels must be truthful. But manufactures can …

The British Heart Foundation recommends that for a healthy heart, we should aim to eat two portions of oily fish per week. It is the Omega 3 fats found in oily fish that are thought to benefit the heart. A study by Akira Sekikawa of the University of Pittsburgh in 2008 found that the reason the Japanese have more Omega 3 in their bloodstream was unlikely to be genetic. He studied Japanese men, Western men, and those Japanese that had moved to the US and consumed a Western diet. The …

Food companies have engaged in some of the worst, self serving fraud to exploit American consumers that threaten public health and are direct contributers to the health problems in this country such as cardiovascular disease, obesity, and diabetes.
If some readers are old enough to remember, in the middle half of the 20th century, there was a law put into place by Congress issuing a food label on food products that were not what they said they were. In Michael Pollan’s book In Defense of Food he describes that these food …

A recent informal survey by the American Farm Bureau Federation Marketbasket shows prices at the supermarket decreased slightly for the third consecutive quarter.
It showed the total cost of 16 food items which could be used to prepare a meal was down by 2 percent — to a cost of $46.29. Of the 16 items surveyed, 10 decreased, five increased and one remained the same in the average price, the survey said.
Russett potatoes, boneless chicken breasts, eggs, sliced deli ham and whole milk declined the most, according to the survey.
The average …

LycoRed Ltd., Israel, is gratified by the recent announcement by The Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) affirming that lycopene from tomato extract is safe for use as a food additive. LycoRed’s Lyc-O-Mato® and Tomat-O-Red® tomato lycopene ingredients fall squarely within the parameters of the JECFA monograph. These ingredients which provide many of the tomatoes benefits are added to food both as healthy colorants and to fortify foods with the full array of antioxidant-rich carotenoids found naturally in tomato.
Zohar Nir, LycoRed’s Vice President of New Product Development and Scientific …

What ingredients make for good and bad dog food?
First of all, many of the big companies are paying really slick marketers and advertisers millions of dollars per year to advertise their dog food. The amount of money they are spending on marketing has no relationship to the quality of the dog food. This is unfortunate for you as some of the best advertised dog food is inferior.
There is one way for you to guess the quality of dog food however it is not fool proof. You can normally use the …

Every one of us living in uncertain times knows the basic components of survival in emergency. The basics are food, water, clothing and shelter. It is necessary to have all these items at hand in case of natural disaster, terrorist attack or other unexpected situation. But to get you long term food storage ready can be a very difficult task. We often put some food products aside and it gives us some sense of security. But this feeling is false because when something unexpected comes up we realize that we …

WASHINGTON — The FDA has called for routine testing for melamine contamination in certain ingredients used in the manufacture and preparation of drugs.
If consumed in sufficient amounts, the chemical — used in the industrial production of resins, cleaning products, fertilizers, and pesticides — can cause kidney failure and death.
The FDA recommended screening the pharmaceutical ingredients with methods currently used for testing food proteins. The equipment necessary is generally available to drug manufacturers and contract testing labs, the agency said.
There is “no reason to believe that the U.S. pharmaceutical supply is …

Studies show between 6 and 7 million Americans suffer from food allergies. Because of the presence of food allergens, the Robert M. Kerr Food & Agricultural Products Center, located on the Oklahoma State University campus, held a seminar for its faculty, staff and students to learn more about the latest food allergen issues.
The FAPC invited Dr. Stephen Taylor, director of the Food Allergy Research & Resource Program and professor with the department of food science and technology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, to speak during the seminar and discuss allergens …

You have probably heard the saying ‘you are what you eat’. This is especially true with regard to living a healthy lifestyle. It isn’t actually as difficult to live a healthy way of life as you might think. Here are some tips to help you to choose the right types of food for keeping yourself fit and healthy.
Green is Good
At the top of your shopping list should be fresh fruits and green leafy vegetables. A large number of the nutrients and vitamins that a person needs for keeping their body …