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Are you ready to turn weight-loss resolutions into results? With more than two-thirds of Americans overweight or obese, the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans provides recommendations for maintaining a healthy weight, reducing risk of disease and promoting health. To give you a jumpstart on your goals, the following tips, based on consumer insights from the Dietary Guidelines Alliance, encourage you to achieve and maintain a healthy weight and active lifestyle. Try them out for yourself, you
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In light of the obesity epidemic, dietary guidance focuses on reduction of overall caloric intake from any source. At the same time, sugar is targeted by many groups as a potential food component to limit, while others suggest that inclusion of some sugars makes other foods more palatable (for example, high-fiber cereals and chocolate milk).
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On December 8, 2011, Robert Gravani, PhD was elected Chair of the International Food Information Council Foundation. Dr. Gravani, a leading food safety expert in the US, is a Professor of Food Science and Director of National Agricultural Practices at Cornell University, and immediate past president of the Institute of Food Technologists.
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Losing weight is one of the most common New Year’s Resolutions, but most people fail to turn their resolutions into results. USDA’s new SuperTracker is a free online tool designed to help Americans make healthful food and physical activity choices – released just in time to help Americans keep their New Year’s resolutions.
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An important article on improving food risk communication has been published in the journal Risk Analysis. Professor Ragnar Lofstedt of King’s Center for Risk Management, Kings College, London, puts forward a series of recommendations on how U.S.-based food and health professionals, health officials and regulators can best handle communications, particularly in those situations where the perceived risk is markedly different from the fact-based risk.
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