WHAT’S a better snack for your kid – one designed for children like Baby Balance Berry Bear Biscuits or ‘junk food’ like a bite of a cheeseburger? The answer may surprise you.
 
A study of 107 foods marketed for babies and young children in British supermarkets in March by the Children’s Food Campaign (CFC), a British pressure group, found that only half of the products surveyed were low in saturated fat, salt and sugar.
The CFC is supported by more than 300 British health organisations and 12,000 members of the public, reported …

Many people have health problems caused by sensitivities to foods or food additives.  The following are the most common symptoms and are usually relieved by removing the culprit food items:
Migraines, frequent headaches
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, sleepiness during the day, insomnia at night
Irritable Bowel Syndrome, diarrhea, bloating, intestinal cramps
Fibromyalgia, muscle pain not associated with exercise or injury
Eczema, rashes, hives
Rheumatoid Arthritis or frequent joint pain
A blood test, called a Mediator Release Test (MRT), is now being used to help people identify specific food sensitivities.  In this test, your blood sample is taken to …

Federal prosecutors announced another guilty plea Tuesday stemming from an ongoing probe into a conspiracy in the California tomato growing industry that authorities say drove up food prices across the nation.
Robert C. Turner Jr., 59, a former corporate purchasing manager at B&G Foods Inc. in Parsipanny, N.J., pleaded guilty to two counts of honest services mail fraud in connection with the investigation.
Turner admitted receiving about $65,000 in bribes from Randall Lee Rahal, a former sales broker at SK Foods, a Lemoore-based company that grows and processes products like tomato paste …

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Despite the many benefits associated with additives, some people have adverse reactions to these substances. Typically, these reactions are due to sensitivities. Symptoms often mimic the effects of an allergic reaction. To date, the only actual allergy that has been confirmed is to sulfites (added to dried fruits, beer, wine, fermented foods).
Other health concerns related to additives have largely been disproved over the years. Previously, some speculated that additives might cause hyperactivity or learning disabilities in children. However, this hypothesis has been disproved. In addition, the FDA has strict rules …

The article from the World Journal of Gastroenterology is clearer than most in sounding the alarm about the recently recalled Hydroxycut weight loss aid and other over-the-counter dietary supplements. But the warning is still couched in typical medical journalese.
“Ingredients do not need to be considered ‘generally recognized as safe’ as pharmaceuticals or food additives do, and the [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] must prove that a supplement is harmful before taking regulatory action. This means consumers in effect become unwitting subjects in a large scale post-marketing trial of a product’s …

Safety Evaluation of Certain Food Additives: Sixty-eighth Meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (WHO Food Additives Series)
By WHO
Publisher: World Health Organization
Number Of Pages: 476
Publication Date: 2008-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 9241660597
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9789241660594
Product Description:
This volume contains monographs prepared at the sixty-eighth meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), which met in Geneva Switzerland from 19 to 28 June 2007.
The toxicological monographs in this volume summarize the safety data on a number of food additives: acidified sodium chlorite asparaginase from Aspergillus oryzae expressed in …

Do you remember the American way? Americans were tough, calloused ranch hands, hard-working farmers and no-nonsense cowboys who lived off of the land. In 2009, however, more and more Americans are living off of grease. Our once-fit, slim and energetic country seems to now be dominated by high-fat foods, laziness and an increasingly sedentary lifestyle. Who is to blame for the tragic downfall throughout the generations? Do we pin it on the fast food chains, for serving their artery clogging specialties? Can we blame electronic manufacturers, for developing such technologies …

Before the thirties, people knew the importance of mineral. Their soil was rich in minerals and they ate plenty of vegetable grown in these soils. When vitamins were discovered during this time, people began to forget about the important of minerals and started their fascination with vitamins.
Today because the soil is highly depleted of minerals, our vegetables are lacking in these life-giving nutrients. It is now necessary to consider how you can get more minerals in your body the natural way. Here are some things you can do to get …

MORE than half of Australian mothers believe their children’s behaviour is affected by foods with artificial colouring.
A nationwide survey of more than 1000 mothers found synthetic food colouring was among their top dietary concerns, second only to high levels of sugar.
But more than 30 per cent could not decipher which products had artificial or natural colouring, according to the motherinc.com.au survey.
A Sunday Herald Sun analysis of common “party foods” revealed high levels of synthetic colouring – some linked to illness and behavioural problems.
Some foods and drinks had an average of …