THE world's largest food manufacturer has reduced sugar levels of some of its top-selling kids' foods - such as Milo cereal and chocolate milk - and will stop advertising non-nutritious products under a plan to improve its image worldwide.

Most white people do not grasp the extent to which people of color suffer unequal health conditions. They may not realize that compared to a white person, a black person in the United States is eight times more likely to have tuberculosis, ten times more likely to die from homicide, and thirty times more likely to have syphilis.

Europe and Japan follow World Health Organization guidelines[3] and test every downer cow for mad cow disease[4]; the U.S. has tested less than 2% of downers over the last decade.[5] Most of the U.S. downer cows, too sick or injured to even walk, end up on our dinner plates.

Our choice is to deliver freshly prepared organic, free range, close to the vine meals right to your table. pure food 2U believes healthy animals raised with care and integrity provide the most flavor and fresh fruits and vegetables grown from a sustainable garden make good healthy sense.

The company has developed and currently produces the nutritional supplement, EMPowerplus, a specialized micronutrient supplement designed to address the unique nutritional deficiencies associated with mental illnesses.

To educate students to better understand—and possibly serve—the nutritional and energetic needs of an ever-expanding world, College of the Atlantic is initiating a food systems program that addresses the local within current global trends of food production.

With America's obesity problem among kids reaching crisis proportions, even junk food makers have started to claim they want to steer children toward more healthful choices. In a study released earlier this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that about 32 percent of children were overweight but not obese, 16 percent were obese, and 11 percent were extremely obese.

n 2007, approximately 3 million children under the age of 18 were reported to have had a food or digestive allergy in the previous 12 months, compared to slightly more than 2.3 million children (3.3 percent) in 1997, according to the report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

LITTLE TERRIFYING ECSTATIC FACES, HIDING IN THE TEENY TINY BROCCOLI BITS.

It may surprise you to learn that among the issues that will occupy much of your time in the coming years is one you barely mentioned during the campaign: food.

In plain english, interestification means mixing fully hydrogenated oil with liquid polyunsaturate oil to produce a consistency similar to partially hydrogenated oil, which is the source of trans fats. The solution to the trans fat problem; from the manufacturer perspective! So what's the moral of the story? Read those labels folks. Food makers are in the business of not only making food, but also in the business of making money. If it has interesterified oils listed, chances are it has trans fat too.

In the first investigation of toxic fire retardants in parents and their children, Environmental Working Group (EWG) found that toddlers and preschoolers typically had 3 times as much of these hormone-disrupting chemicals in their blood as their mothers.

Last month at Slow Food Nation, Michael Pollan made an interesting point about food policy and presidential politics. Food issues won't likely play much of a role during the campaign's stretch run, Pollan said, but the winning candidate will almost certainly be forced to confront them directly over the next four years.

Williams said more and more people are becoming interested in eating locally produced food, supporting the local economy, and making sure their food is safe and organically grown. When massive produce and meat recalls make national headlines, new customers come into Fresh Off the Farm asking about local food.

eth•i•cu•re•an n. (also adj.) Someone who seeks out tasty things that are also sustainable, organic, local, and/or ethical — SOLE food, for short