The government’s new nutrition labels — the first in 20 years — will let families know whether their food has added sugars for the first time, and reflect more realistic portion sizes.
Related: New W.H.O. guidelines recommend that sugar make up only 5 percent of your daily calories. That’s 100 calories, which at four calories a gram would be 25 grams of sugar.
This is why we’re unhealthy, Buzzfeed explains in a video. For instance: The average person consumes 19 tablespoons of sugar a day, the maximum recommended amount recommended by the American Heart Association is 6 to 9 teaspoons.
Federal health authorities reported a seemingly impressive 43 percent drop in the obesity rate among 2- to 5-year-old children over the past decade. (Let’s see if that holds up; obesity rates among others are flat or increasing.) And: Here are the most obese states in America.
Idaho passed the nation’s ninth ag-gag law.
New York State is poised to be the first in the country to ban microbeads, those tiny plastic pebbles found in facial scrubs, balms and gels that contaminate our water supply and end up in the Great Lakes.
Nestlé’s Hot Pockets are one of the latest casualties (aww) in a recall of nearly nine million pounds of meat from a northern California slaughterhouse. Here’s how the recall hurt small cattle ranches.
Speaking of beef: The National Cattlemen’s Beef Associationholds the U.S. beef industry hostage, pocketing nearly 99 percent of all beef tax dollars and blocking independent ranchers and food-origin labeling.
The president’s ambitious meat industry antitrust plan was no match for lobbyists with lots of cash.
Carbon dioxide pollution recently killed 10 million scallops in British Columbian waters.
Pennsylvania lost nearly 4,000 farms over a recent five-year period, and the state’s total farm acreage dropped by about 100,000. The average age of a Pennsylvania farmer is 56, and half the farmers in the state have another primary occupation.
Rex Tillerson, the C.E.O. of ExxonMobil, has come out against fracking — because his $5 million Texas estate might be harmed. He is joining a lawsuit to block construction of a 160-foot water tower, which would supply water to a nearby fracking site near his property.
This video explains how companies like Coca-Cola grow rich selling poor health to people of color and their kids. Related: Frito-Lay, Kellogg and Coca-Cola hold workshops and online classes for the nation’s dietitians. Are you kidding?
A study found some evidence that fried foods could be to blame for premature aging, diabetes and dementia.
Several restaurants in Florida are asking customers to pay an Affordable Care Act tax of 15 cents on a typical $15 lunch tab.
The F.D.A. has launched a review of the way it ensures the safety and use of over-the-counter drugs taken by hundreds of millions of Americans, opening the door to the most significant reform in four decades. In prescription drug news: A new opiate called Zohydro, which is ten times more potent than Vicodin, will enter California markets despite the protests of a number of doctors and experts.
An 88-year-old scientist who helped discover CFCs and their role in the erosion of the ozone layer, and has been warning of looming environmental disaster for at least five decades, says the planet ison the brink of climate catastrophe, no matter what we do now. He gives us 20 years until Europe is “Saharan” and London underwater.
The E.P.A. proposed new rules to protect farmworkers from pesticides. But will they make a difference?
via:http://bittman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/10/what-were-reading-now-14/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
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