| Weight loss, diet, nutrition, and food news and information | | Posted Monday, January 01, 2007 1:08:22 PM by Blog57 Team | | A few months ago, as noted here, the Coca-Cola Company announced that it was going to introduce a new beverage, something that the folks at Coke have done with rather more regularity than success over the years. New Coke was a bust on the order of the Edsel, Susan B. Anthony dollar, and Kevin Federline's musical career, but that experience only seemed to invigorate the company, which has run cherry-flavored Coke, lime-flavored Coke, and pretty much everything but ammonia-flavored Coke up the flagpole. But even in the context of all this product diversification, their latest new drink is a real head-turner, and even eye-roller. The new drink is called Enviga, a name so blatant in it's attempt to call the word "invigorate" to your mind that you'd think the high-priced marketing consultants who came up with it would be suitably embarrassed.... | |
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| | | Chinese children 6 cm taller than 3 decades ago, survey shows | | Posted Saturday, December 30, 2006 3:06:03 PM by Blog57 Team | | _ Children in major Chinese cities are now 6 centimeters taller than they were 30 years ago as a result of better nutrition, China's state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Saturday. It said the results of a Health Ministry survey, released earlier in the day, show the average height of 6-year-old boys rose from 112.3 cm in 1975 to 118.7 cm in 2005, while that of girls reached 117.7 cm, 6.2 cm more than in 1975. The survey, which has been conducted by ministry every 10 years since 1975, covered almost 140,000 children in urban and suburban areas of Beijing, Harbin, Xi'an, Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuhan, Fuzhou, Guangzhou and Kunming. Xinhua said taller children are posing problems for city transport authorities. In June this year, Beijing's municipal government had to revise the height under which kids get a free bus ride from 1.1 meters high to 1.2 meters.... | |
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| | | CONFERENCE ON NUTRITION AND HEALTH IN FOOD | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 3:04:38 PM by Blog57 Team | | EUROPE: EFSA exchanges views and experience on nutrition and health claims with experts from EU Member States and stakeholders. The European Food Safety Authority has opened a three-day international scientific conference in Bologna, Italy to look at nutrition and health claims made for food products. Some 200 experts from national food safety authorities, stakeholders and international organizations are exchanging views and experience in the field of nutrition and health claims. With the new Regulation on Nutrition and Health Claims made on foods EFSA has to provide risk managers, and in particular the European Commission, with scientific advice to ensure that all such claims are science-based in the overall interest of consumer protection. “EFSA welcomes the opportunity of providing sound scientific advice to underpin the new Regulation on nutrition and health claims," EFSA Executive Director Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle said at the conference.... | |
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| | | Ghana: Strengthening Human Rights in Ghana | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 11:11:49 PM by Blog57 Team | | Denial of basic socio-economic rights, such as the right to work, health and education, is a grave danger to democracy, and the legitimacy of government hinges on its genuine determination to ensure that the basic necessities of life are available and accessible to all within its borders. Ghana is often held up as an example of an African country where democracy and human rights are respected and upheld. .... | |
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| | | DILG mandates LGUs to support nutrition programs | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 1:35:29 PM by Blog57 Team | | Tacloban City (6 November) -- As the Local Government Code of 1991 empowers Local Government Units (LGUs) to provide basic social services to include health ad nutrition services, the Department of Interior or Local Government or DILG requests LGUs to submit budgetary estimates intended for nutrition and related programs for a period of five years. This is the gist of the Memorandum Circular No. 2006-113 issued by the Department of Interior and Local Government in August, this year. The memorandum is one important way of determining the critical role of the local government units in contributing to the success of nutrition programs at the local levels, through the resources allocated for their implementation. This will likewise help achieve the goal of the Medium Term Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition (MTPPAN) for 2006 - 2010.... | |
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| | | Hospital sponsors wellness program | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 3:07:03 PM by Blog57 Team | | Garden City Hospital, 6245 Inkster Road, offers a weekly schedule of health and wellness programs for residents. The lineup this week includes:Monday, Nov. 6 Childbirth Education (first of six classes) at 6 p.m. This six-week course prepares the expectant mother and coach for labor and delivery. Class runtime is 2 1/2 hours and there is a $60 fee. Medicaid is accepted. A refresher course also is available. Call (734) 458-4330 for more information or to register. .... | |
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| | | Just as good as the first - CSIRO book hits stands | | Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 3:06:58 PM by Blog57 Team | | CSIRO nutrition scientists Dr Manny Noakes and Dr Peter Clifton are set to capitalize on the outstanding worldwide success of The CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet with Book 2 of the diet now available (Penguin, rrp$34.95). Followers of the diet will also benefit with 80 new recipes that are as quick, easy and every bit as delicious as those in the first book. Apart from the great recipes, the success of this international bestseller is surely due in part to the credibility afforded it by the CSIRO. With many divergent opinions about weight loss diets, it's comforting to know that this diet is the result of carefully considered clinical research by internationally recognised scientists. In collaboration with CSIRO health and nutrition researchers and co-author, CSIRO Nutrition Clinic Manager Dr Peter Clifton, Dr Noakes spent several years developing this protein-based, low-fat, weight-loss plan that differs from many diets in that it also provides all the nutrients needed for a healthy lifestyle.... | |
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| | | Seekonk Public Library awarded Health Access grant | | Posted Sunday, October 29, 2006 7:18:06 PM by Blog57 Team | | Thanks to a grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners, the Seekonk Public Library has been awarded a $2,500 Health Access grant to bring medical information to the community. According to the 2004 nationwide survey, Health Information Online, done by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, more people are turning to the Internet to find answers to health questions. It was found that the greatest growth was in seeking information on doctors and hospitals, experimental treatments, health insurance, medicines, fitness and nutrition. The Seekonk Public Library will use the funding from the Health Access grant to help the community connect to needed medical information more easily. The library will offer computer workshops highlighting ways of finding medical resources on the Internet.... | |
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| | | Heinz working on nutrition powder for China | | Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 7:04:51 AM by Blog57 Team | | The H.J. Heinz Co. Foundation said Wednesday that it will spend $1 million over the next three years to introduce a flavorless nutrition powder to poorer residents of Western China. Heinz, which has had a manufacturing presence in China since it opened an infant food factory in Guangzhou in 1986, is conducting the nutrition enhancement program in conjunction with the Chinese Ministry of Health. .... | |
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| | | Free mopeds for midwives | | Posted Monday, October 23, 2006 3:06:56 AM by Blog57 Team | | BALANGODA: The Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry has made arrangements to provide free mopeds to midwives islandwide to ensure an effective health service. The nature of midwives' duties now confined only to child and maternity care would be expanded on a wide spectrum covering other clinical areas with the new move, Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva said. The Minister handed over 125 motorbikes under infrastructure facilities development in the health sector, to the Sabaragamuwa Province at a ceremony held at the Balangoda Base hospital recently. "Trade union activities and strikes were common in the health sector of the country. Midwives were the only health sector employees who had never gone on strike. Most of the trade unions had a tendency of resorting to strikes to obtain various demands.... | |
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