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Mexico’s Sugary Drink Tax is Working, Study Suggests
A 10% tax increase on sugary beverages in Mexico may be positively impacting buying behavior, according to a new study. In January 2014, Mexico implemented an excise tax of 1 peso per liter for...
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Can Land-Based Fish Farms Solve Farmed Seafood Woes?
images of escaped fish, crowded pens, antibiotics, and ocean pollution in Asia, where nearly 90 percent of today’s aquaculture takes place. Now some entrepreneurs are bringing aquaculture on land. In...
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Rethinking Weight Loss and the Reasons We're 'Always Hungry'
David Ludwig often uses an analogy when he talks about weight loss: Human beings are not toaster ovens. If we were, then the types of calories we consumed would not matter, and calorie counting would...
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New US food guidelines show the power of lobbying, not science
Federal officials released a new set of dietary guidelines today that could have set a new path for Americans by encouraging people to eat less red meat and less sugar-sweetened beverages. But instead...
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New Dietary Guidelines Crack Down On Sugar. But Red Meat Gets A Pass
Audio for this story from Morning Edition will be available at approximately 9:00 a.m. ET. Eat This, Not That: The U.S. government's latest Dietary Guidelines call on Americans to eat more vegetables...
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Facts About Nutrition- and Physical Activity-Related Health Conditions in the United States Healthy U.S.-Style Eating Pattern at the 2,000-Calorie Level, With Daily or Weekly Amounts From Food Groups,...
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The 2015 Dietary Guidelines, at long last
They are now online in a version that takes up dozens of screens with annoying drop-down boxes. It’s hard to navigate, and if it’s searchable, I can’t figure out how. First the good news. These...
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One Man’s 40-Year War on Salt Could Finally Succeed
Michael Jacobson has spent almost 40 years trying to make America’s food less salty. A disciple of consumer advocate Ralph Nader and a co-founder of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a...
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What Americans Can Learn From the Brazilian Guide to Weight Loss
RIO DE JANEIRO—Bela Gil hosts one of Brazil’s most popular food TV shows, Bela Cozinha, now in its fifth season. The premise is putting a hip, healthy spin on Brazilian classics—think tofurkey, but not...
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New U.S. Dietary Guidelines Are Incredibly Vague, Thanks to Food Lobbyists
Put that New York Times best-seller currently waiting atop your nightstand aside, because the U.S. government's got some riveting new reading for you: a brand-new set of dietary guidelines, which are...
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Here's What 10 Experts Think of the New Dietary Guidelines
The highly anticipated 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans were released on Thursday—and they’re proving controversial, with disagreement among industry and the nutrition community over whether red...
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The EPA finally admitted that the world's most popular pesticide kills...
Bees are dying in record numbers—and now the government admits that an extremely common pesticide is at least partially to blame. For more than a decade, the Environmental Protection Agency has been...
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Another reason fracking sucks: Study links fracking to even more health problems
You know the old saying: “Another day, another study linking fracking to health problems.” A new study from the Yale School of Public Health links the chemicals used in fracking with potential...
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One of the angry ranchers' complaints might make more sense than you think
In reading about the angry armed men occupying some buildings at Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, I found myself struggling to understand their rationale for action. I mean, I understood they...
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We Eat Too Much Sodium Because Companies Keep Dumping It In Our Food
Extra high amounts of sodium can be hidden in savory snacks like popcorn served at movie theaters and other concession stands. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption The Centers for Disease Control and...
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California gas leak is so bad that governor evacuates 30,000 people
California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) declared a state of emergency Wednesday in response to the methane leak that has been spewing foul-smelling and toxic gas into the Porter Ranch area of Los Angeles for...
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New USDA dietary guidelines are a win for the meat industry and a loss for...
Last year, the USDA pulled the ol’ bait-and-switch on us at Grist. The bait: Rumors surfaced that new dietary guidelines might advise Americans to eat less beef for the environment’s sake. The switch:...
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A New Fact on the Food Label
Breaking from its industry rivals, Campbell Soup will become the first major food company to begin disclosing the presence of genetically engineered ingredients like corn, soy and sugar beets in its...
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Why we support mandatory national GMO labeling
Today the New York Times wrote about Campbell’s decision to support mandatory national labeling of products that may contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Campbell’s President and CEO Denise...
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All the News That's Fit to Eat: Campbell Labels GMOs, More Vegetables in...
Happy new year! We’re back with the food news you need to know this week. Meat Industry Wins Round in War Over Federal Nutrition Advice (Politico) The 2015 Dietary Guidelines, released yesterday, do...
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