Diet guide news 2007-04

2007-04-25 Question your diet - Minnesota Daily

Our newly remodeled food system is also taking a toll on the environment. The impact of monocultures and a globalized food system is leading to a drastic increase in fossil fuel use. Today, we use 10 calories of fossil fuel energy for every one calorie of food energy produced. A few decades ago, two calories of food energy could be produced with only one calorie of fossil fuel energy. This is because monocultures are being fertilized with an abundance of petroleum and an enormous amount of oil is being used to ship food items around the world. Wild salmon from Alaska is being shipped to China for processing and then shipped back to America. Your everyday supermarket, as well as popular natural, organic grocery stores like Trader Joes and Whole Foods, are receiving many of their food items from other countries. This

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You probably dont think about where the ingredients of your favorite meal come from, or what ingredients really make up that meal. With the convenience of a restaurant at every corner. - Minnesota daily mndaily newspaper university of minnesota newspaper gophers newspaper minnesota gophers mn daily gopher sports gopher football hockey basketball wrestling

2007-04-09 Inside Bay Area - Pet food recalls suggest home cooking alternative

However, because cooking the food at moderate temperatures can make these less digestible carbohydrate food materials more readily broken down and more digestible by gastrointestinal systems of carnivores, commercially produced dry dog and cat foods which are higher in carbohydrates than a natural raw food diet 1 are easily digested by virtually all dogs and cats. Feeding raw forms of carbohydrates to carnivores is not natural for their intestinal systems.

Billinghursts recommendations to feed raw meat and bones as the primary constituent of canine and feline diets have become widely followed by pet owners and breeders. His diet has become known as the BARF diet (one of the better acronyms. ) for "biologically appropriate raw food. " Since then, the term "BARF diet" has often been used to refer to any homemade, raw food diet for pets.

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2007-04-06 Trans Fat-free College : News : HOI 19 Online

The Food and Drug Administration estimates the average American adult consumes about 5. 8 grams of transfat each day. Health experts recommend we try to limit the amount of transfatin our diet. The FDA now requires manufacturers to list the amount of transfatin a serving of a product on the food label. In , New York City became the first city in the country to ban use of artificial transfats in all restaurants. Restaurants must start complying with the new regulations by . Other areas of the country have passed or are considering regulating transfats.

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2007-04-24 Two Pet Food Manufacturers Still Mum On Potential Contamination

Last week, Sen. Durbin and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) met with von Eschenbach in Durbins Capitol office to discuss the latest recall of pet food, this time caused by contaminated rice protein imported from China. In the meeting, Durbin and DeLauro learned that the Chinese Government has blocked requests from the FDA to send personnel to China to inspect the facilities suspected of producing the contaminated products. The FDA first contacted the Chinese Government on April 4 but have not been granted permission to send food inspectors into the country. In response, Durbin and DeLauro sent a letter to the Chinese Ambassador to the United States, Zhou Wenzong, urging the Chinese Government to issue visas to U. S. food inspectors as quickly as possible.

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2007-04-10 Diet, and more, takes vigilance

This isnt to suggest that all the owners of the cats and dogs that died from contaminated food didnt care about their animals. Hardly - judging from the heart-wrenching postings on sites such as menufoodsclass , they cared more than we could ever know. (And though my dogs all eat a home-prepared diet, a two-fer coupon induced me to buy some jerky treats a while ago. I knew they were junk food, I bought them anyway, and - bam - they are on the recall list. )

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2007-04-27

) - No one is more qualified to offer guidance to families of overweight children than the Harvard endocrinologist Dr. David Ludwig. He is the cofounder and director of the Optimal Weight for Life (OWL) Program at Childrens Hospital Boston, the premier weight-loss clinic for kids in America, and a pioneer of the groundbreaking low-glycemic diet, the basis for some of the most successful diets of the last decade, including the South Beach Diet and SugarBusters. In Ending the Food Fight, Dr. Ludwig provides parents with the tools they need to win the food fight, once and for all.

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2007-04-07 MediaPost Publications - Americans And Diet: Were Too Busy To Walk The Walk

At the present moment, there isnt a "diet du jour" thats sweeping America like Atkins or South Beach did a few years back. Respondents to Mintels study expressed strong interest in foods that reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes. This provides opportunities for marketers. Mintels survey of more than 16,000 new food products found that none of the top 10 food claims mentioned these diseases.

Two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese, and over half of adults are watching what they eat, reports Simmons NCS. At the same time, Americans spend billions on diet and health-food products every year, and their interest in organic food is growing faster than marijuana on a sunny, vacant lot.

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Americans And Diet: Were Too Busy To Walk The Walk - (Research) Respondents to Mintels study expressed strong interest in foods that reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease cancer and diabetes which provides opportunities for marketers. None of

2007-04-26 NPR : Pet Owners Cater to Canine Palate

In the wake of a recall of contaminated pet food, some pet owners are feeding their pets a different kind of diet. The Biologically Appropriate Raw Food - or "BARF" - diet encourages pet owners to replace kibble with foods that are closer to what an animals less-domesticated ancestors once ate: raw meat, bone and vegetables.

The BARF diet isnt for everyone; compared with manufactured foods, it can be more expensive. It requires adequate storage space to keep raw food frozen, and also time to thaw the meat. And some animal lovers find it difficult to feed their pets other furry beings - such as rabbits, head and all.

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In the wake of a recall of contaminated pet food, some pet owners are feeding their pets a different kind of diet. Its called BARF: Biologically Appropriate Raw Food. Feeding pets raw meat, bones and vegetables is catching on, but it is not without risk.

2007-04-13 Food and health: The culinary arts tastily augment the healing arts Inquirer

By dietitian Susan M. Kleiner with health columnist Bob Condor (Springboard Press, usd. 23. 99), who emphasize eating more "feel-good" foods - fish, eggs, flaxseed, bananas, blueberries and more - while omitting refined sugar and limiting sweets, alcohol, fried foods and such that depress us. Avoid extremes, says Kleiner, who notes that the best thing about low-carb diets is that few people can stick to them. They get bored, grouchy and instinctively crave foods that will make them feel better.

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2007-04-06 Income and food cost concerns affect diet: study

These findings, the authors say, have several policy implications. Because the price of healthy and unhealthy foods differ markedly in the US, "our findings suggest that low socioeconomic status may cause a significant food-cost barrier, which in turn, reduces the quality of the diet, particularly in terms of energy, fat, sodium, and simple sugars. "

NEW YORK - Income and education level, and the perceived price of certain foods, impact what Americans eat and the overall diet of the US adult population, according to survey data from a nationally representative group of more than 4300 Americans 20 to 65 years old.

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Income and education level, and the perceived price of certain foods, impact what Americans eat and the overall diet of the US adult population. - Health food cost diet