Feds, legal threats put snacks on a diet
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America's snack food makers are marketing smaller portion packs, using healthier fats and reducing sugar in some of the nation's favorite potato chips and cookies.
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Cans and bottles of sugar-sweetened colas, lemonade and fruit drinks, which many people think can be drunk with impunity, are today implicated as a major cause of obesity and linked to a rise in diabetes by scientists in the United States.
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Snacks sold in schools will have less fat, sugar and salt under the latest crackdown on junk food won by former President Clinton.
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WASHINGTON - US authorities worry terrorists could target foodstuffs in an attempt to sicken or kill hundreds, maybe thousands of people.
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Health officials proposed a new regulation requiring chain restaurants to post calorie information on their menus. A federal judge struck down an earlier plan.
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Restaurants, under fire from health advocates for too-big servings and not enough detail on nutrition, are fighting back.
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The federal government will spend more than $1 billion this year on nutrition education &#151; fresh carrot and celery snacks, videos of dancing fruit, hundreds of hours of lively lessons about how great you will feel if you eat well.
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A city proposal to ban restaurants from selling food containing an unhealthy artificial fat could open a new front in a national fight over the safety of America's food supply, legal experts said.
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Diet trends aren't just for adults anymore. A new obsession of America's food, beverage and restaurant companies is thwarting childhood obesity.
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Some foods made with whole oats, such as oatmeal, could soon claim to be "low fat" under a U.S. Food and Drug Administration proposal released on Monday.
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The U.S Food and Administration's plan to consolidate laboratories used for testing food and other products would make it even more difficult for the understaffed agency to protect Americans from unsafe food, lawmakers said on Tuesday.
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Sufferers are being lured by faddish diets from private clinics, doctors say.
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OTTAWA -- The federal government is putting Canadian food producers on a strict carbohydrate labelling diet that could knock a number of new product lines off grocery store shelves next year.
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The American Medical Association said on Wednesday it wants fast-food and chain restaurants to add nutritional information to menus and menu boards as part of an effort to combat obesity in the United States.
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Call it the heights of irony but where you might have though that insurance agencies would urge their clients to keep away from fattening things like chocolates, they are actually writing letters to their clients to eat a chocolate a day after several
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Leading food manufacturers stand accused of using tactics to push foods high in fat, sugar and salt to children.
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To help control stress-eating this holiday season, reach into the cookie jar.