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Food Labels

Organic, Heritage, Sustainable -- When Talking Turkey, Does it Matter?

Wendy Gordon | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Humane, Turkey, Organic, Heritage, Food Labels, Sustainable, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Tips, Thanksgiving Commentary, Green News
Wendy Gordon

If turkey is on your holiday menu, what then should you buy? 
When looking for the right bird, or any poultry for that matter, there is much to consider.

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Front Food Labels are Misleading: FDA is Ready to Tackle Food Manufacturers

Barbara Ficarra | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Barbara Ficarra, Take Charge of Health, Ingredients, Front Food Labels, Misleading Front Food Labels, Healthy Eating, healthin30, Front of Packages (FOP), Prevention, Healthy Choices, Food Labels, Living News
Barbara Ficarra

The next time you head out for food shopping, read the ingredients on the side or back label. The ingredients will give you a better idea if the product you are about to buy is healthy or not.

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FDA Crack-down on Food Packaging Claims and Logos

Ashley Koff | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Fda, Health Care, Nutrition, Food Labels, Food and Drug Administration, Health Food, Living News
Ashley Koff

After helping clients navigate the grocery store aisles and teaching them how to interpret a package, I was convinced that we needed something to truly help the consumer find healthy food.

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"Smart Choices" Food Labeling Program Halts Over FDA Concern

Posted 10.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Smart Choices, Fda, Food, Food Labeling, Kellogg's, Food Labels, Business News

(AP) PORTLAND, Ore. - A food industry group is voluntarily halting promotion of its nutrition labeling program after federal regulators said such syst...

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8 Puzzling Food Labels

forbes.com | Joel Kotkin | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Shopping, Health, Nutrition, Consumer Safety, Food, Grocery Store, Balanced Diet, Grocery Shopping, Consumption, Diet, Wellness, Food Labels, Living News

If you are like the typical hurried consumer, chances are you don't spend much time considering food labels. And sometimes it can be hard to understan...

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New 'Smart Choices' Food Labels Are More Confusing Than Helpful

LiveScience | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Healthy Food, Healthy Eating, Smart Choices, Wellness, Food Labels, Living News

Wouldn't it be nice if foods came with labels to explain how healthy they are? Well, yes, you're right: They do. OK, but wouldn't it be even nicer if ...

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New Healthy Food Label Goes To... Froot Loops?

nytimes.com | WILLIAM NEUMAN | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Smart Choices, Froot Loops, Food Labels, Green News

A new food-labeling campaign called Smart Choices, backed by most of the nation's largest food manufacturers, is "designed to help shoppers easily ide...

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Why It's So Hard Not To Be Fat

Christina Pirello | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Fat, Weight Loss, Sugar, Pesticides, Fast Food, American Diet, Prevention-Magazine, Steroids, Weight Loss Tips, Herbicides, Fast Food Industry, Weight, 1950s, Papa-Johnss-Pizza, Salt, Wendy's, McDonald's, Marketing, Processed Food, Losing Weight, Food Marketing, 1950s-Housewife, Canned Foods, Growth Hormones, Weight Gain, Blackberry Addiction, Pollan Food, Food Labels, Weight Control, Michael Pollan, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Health, Real Food, Toxic Waste, Consumer Protection, Heart Attack, Living News
Christina Pirello

Fat, sugar and salt; the triple threat to our waistlines... and health. Mere decades ago, the food industry made a conscious choice to seduce the Amer...

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You're Appointing Who? Please Obama, Say It's Not So!

Jeffrey Smith | Posted 08.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Dr. P. M. Bhargava, President Obama, Infertility, Milk, Revolving Door, Dennis Wolff, Food Safety, Rbgh, Organic Trade Association, Food Safety Czar, Organic, Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1, International Dairy Foods Association, FDA Policy, Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture, Fda, Food Related Illness, GM Foods, Asthma, Michael Taylor. Safety Testing, Cancer, Genetically Modified Foods, American Academy of Environmental Medicine, GMO Labels, Genetically Engineered Foods, Gastrointestinal Disorder, Substantially Equivalent, Inflammation, Immune Problems, Genetically Modified Organisms, Food Labels, Accelerated Aging, Milk Supply, Igf-1, Rbst, Monsanto, Ohio Governor Strickland, Genetically Engineered, Insulin Regulation, Governor Ed Rendell, Food Supply, GE Foods, Bovine Growth Hormone, Gmos, Food and Drug Administration, Allergies, Multiple Chronic Illness, Green News
Jeffrey Smith

The person who may be responsible for more food-related illness and death than anyone in history has just been made the US food safety czar.

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Vote First, Eat Later

Susanne Freidberg | Posted 08.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Food, Food-Labels, Organic Food, Food Politics, Inc., Green News
Susanne Freidberg

Eating is not voting. Equating these two vital activities devalues both.

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FDA Considers Placing Food Labels In Plain Sight

Associated Press | Andrew Bridges | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Obesity, FDA, Food Labels, Living News

If an increasingly overweight America's eyes are bigger than its stomach, then placing more nutritional information in plain sight could allow shopper...

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