Fitness Education

I’m nearly speechlessNearlyIf the photo up above is genuine, and not an Onion style fake, I think the JDRF has taken inappropriate Big Food/Public Health partnerships to a new all time lowIf genuine, then the JDRF is comfy lending its name to the sale of 64oz of sugared sodaFor those who like numbers, the Mega [...]

So what do you think is the point of a front-of-package health claims program? I would imagine that most people would answer that a front-of-package health claims program ought to allow for easy comparisons between different foods. Certainly that’d be my definition. Comparison between foods would be a rather important feature as presumably the front-of-package [...]

The CDC released today a first of its kind analysis of racial disparities in health with the hope of drawing attention to some persistent gaps and shedding light on unexpected ones. While race was the primary focus of the report, it also delved into differences in health outcomes by income, gender and geography. The report [...]

Here is another lesson in why you can’t believe everything food labels tell you. The Dannon Company was ordered by the federal government to pay a $21 million fine and stop making exaggerated health claims for two very popular Dannon products under an agreement with the federal government and attorneys general from 39 states, according [...]