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The Nutrition Facts Label: Your Tool for a Healthy Heart
Sacramento Bee
7, 2012 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- February is American Heart Month, and the US Food and Drug Administration has a simple tool to help you achieve a heart-healthy lifestyle! It's called the Nutrition Facts Label, and you can find it on all packaged ...

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Diet pyramid for African-Americans created by Boston nutrition group
Boston Globe
Getting back to home-cooked basic dishes ? based on staples from the American South, Caribbean, South America, and, yes, Africa ? was the thought behind the new African heritage diet pyramid created by Oldways, a nonprofit nutrition education ...

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New York Times

Walmart to Label Healthy Foods
New York Times
?We've been very focused on cutting costs in supply chain to help us achieve this,? said Andrea Thomas, senior vice president for sustainability at Walmart. Experts on nutrition and health generally commended the standards the company established for ...
Eggs Receive Great for You Seal from WalmartMarketWatch (press release)
The Walmart Foundation Donates $9.5 Million to Help U.S. Families Access the ...Sacramento Bee
Wal-Mart Creates Icon For Food Packages To Encourage Healthful ChoicesNPR (blog)
BlissTree -Arizona Daily Star (blog)
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Kellogg'sŪ Boosts America's Fiber Intake with Cereals That Offer Fiber and ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Look for those that are higher in fiber, according to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Kellogg's offers more cereals with at least a good source (3 grams) of fiber and 8 grams of whole grains than any other US food company (1). Nutrition experts ...

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Multivitamins are wise when diet is low in whole foods
Auburn Citizen
In fact, about half of adult American men and women take some form of daily vitamin supplement. This is at the cost of about $23 billion per year, according to a 2009 New York Times piece. But the latest research has largely been disappointing.



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Vitamin D Deficiency High Among Trauma Patients
MarketWatch (press release)
7, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- New research presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) found that 77 percent of trauma patients had deficient or insufficient levels of vitamin D. Researchers have ...
Women with Osteoporosis Wrist Fractures had Vitamin D DeficiencyBest Syndication

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Vitamin D and Cancer Treatment
Huffington Post
So for me a supplement is the only way to guarantee I have it. I take a supplement of 500iu each day. Reinhold Veith of the University of Toronto, who has been studying Vitamin D for his entire career, wrote in the American Journal of Nutrition that ...



The Guardian

Vitamin Supplements: Be Very Careful
InjuryBoard.com
Most of us take, or at some time in our life have taken, vitamin supplements. We see and hear the health claims of many vitamin manufacturers and marketers, and we don't think of vitamins as medicines or as being potentially harmful.
Vitamin D awareness in decline, say doctorsThe Guardian

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Daily Mail

Bread is No.1 source of salt in US diet
Sky News Australia
Bread is No.1 source of salt in US diet Updated: 17:58, Wednesday February 8, 2012 Bread and rolls, not chips and pretzels, are the No.1 source of salt in the American diet, according to a study. Fresh chicken and turkey, which is sometimes injected ...
'Hidden' salt cited as culprit in U.S. dietSTLtoday.com
Bread No. 1 source of salt in American diet, CDC reportsGlobalPost
CDC: Breads top list of salt sources in US dietSan Francisco Chronicle
Chicago Tribune
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Diet pyramid for African-Americans created by Boston nutrition group
Boston Globe
Getting back to home-cooked basic dishes ? based on staples from the American South, Caribbean, South America, and, yes, Africa ? was the thought behind the new African heritage diet pyramid created by Oldways, a nonprofit nutrition education ...

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Chicago Tribune

Sweet treats CAN be part of a heart-healthy diet
Chicago Tribune
February is synonymous with hearts ? for Valentine's Day and for American Heart Month. What a fitting time to think about the heart and what can be done to maintain its health. Heart disease is often thought of as a "men's disease," but it is the ...
February is American Heart Month: Are you heart healthy?Daily Clay County Advocate-Press
Take it to heart: Get moving, get healthyAuburn Reporter
Understanding the facts about heart diseaseThe Columbian
Fort Morgan Times -Patch.com -Care2.com
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Manuel Villacorta: When It Comes to Gluten, Don't Wheat Yourself Out
Fox News
So many people in recent years have been completely eliminating this protein, which is found in wheat and grains, from their diet. In fact, the $1.6 billion spent last year on gluten-free products, when 3 million Americans are thought to be celiac's ...

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The 'fit but fat' debate: Weight loss should still be the goal, experts say
Chicago Tribune
Findings from a study published in the September 2011 Journal of the American College of Cardiology revealed that MNBO people were less likely to develop heart failure over a six-year period, compared to people of normal weight who had metabolic ...



Los Angeles Bariatric Surgeon Discusses Revision Weight Loss Surgery
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
He says while the risks of living with morbid obesity significantly outweigh the risks of bariatric surgery, complications may still occur in achieving a patient's weight loss goals that require revision bariatric surgery. According to the American ...

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American Medical Association offers weight loss app
mobihealthnews
At the end of January the American Medical Association (AMA) offered up its second consumer facing smartphone app: Weigh What Matters. The free app, which is available for Apple iOS and Android devices, aims to help people work with their physicians to ...

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Menopause Myths On Weight Gain And Age Disspelled
Huffington Post (blog)
And nine out of 10 American premenopausal and menopausal women will gain weight (as will 70 percent of all women worldwide, due to varied diets and other cultural influences), says Amos Pines, MD, former president of the International Menopause Society ...