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Snacking is sneaking in more calories than ever before into Americans' diets, new research says. While the average American eats roughly the same amount of food during meals as in the 1970s, the number of calories Americans consume as snacks has increased to...
Recruiting Pamela Anderson to hand out free potato chips and beer may sound like a cheap publicity stunt, but for Britain's top potato crisp brand, Walkers, it dramatically helped boost sales.
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Placentas have been eaten, buried, burned, marched in parades, sung to, dressed in clothing, entombed in pyramids, floated down rivers, and probably a host of other things too strange or mundane to record. In an intriguing article in the edgy journal, meatpaper, journalist, Cynthia Mitchell...
Food "additives" are generally an anathema to the informed consumer world, until high-profile chefs reverse them into sexy: the latest to cause a stir is protein-bonding transglutaminase.
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Durban's Rudene and Andrew Brown can, without doubt, be credited with shifting muesli out of a hippy-health-shop niche into the mainstream in South Africa. The couple, who founded and sold not one, but two, very successful breakfast cereal companies and brands, Nature's Source and Simply...
Fruit Pack, a 100% fruit purée snack for children that was launched recently is now available in individual 90g pouches and four-packs (containing fpur x 90g pouches) per flavour....
Organic farming must ditch its irrational mistrust of science or risk losing its reputation as being safer and healthier - that's the word of a man who has worked closely with the organic industry in the UK, Dominic Dyer, writing in New Scientist in the...
Will we ever access the heart-protecting abilities of red wine without having to drink a glass every day? [What is a day without red wine?!] We soon may be able to, thanks to the synthesis of chemicals derived from resveratrol, the molecule believed...
The prevalence of Type 2 diabetes worldwide has more than doubled since 1980, climbing from an estimated 153 million three decades ago to about 347 million in 2008, researchers reported this week. About three million deaths every year are directly attributable to...
British researchers have developed what they say is a "cure" for Type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease. And all you have to do is starve yourself for eight weeks....
Tough new restrictions on the use of artificial trans-fats will come into effect on August 17, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has said.
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In the US, the idea to tax soda won't go away and it's on the agenda in several states and cities. For many it's a no-brainer in advancing the nation's war on obesity, with advocates pointing to a number of studies in recent years that...
Adore red meat? You may be put off that next juicy rump by hearing what Harald zur Hausen has to say about it. At the 61st Lindau* meeting this week, the Nobel laureate spoke on his current hypothesis about why beef causes...
How will packaging be affected by a future marked by explosive population growth and insufficient resources? At an American symposium recently, SPS 2011, or Sustainable Packaging Symposium, Tony Kingsbury, executive-in-residence, Center for Responsible Business, UC Berkeley, and an executive with Dow Chemical, shared...
‘The Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography and Gift-Giving Reveal About Human Nature’ is a book written by Gad Saad, who for many years has been studying the fundamental question: are consumers made or born? It's particularly relevent when it comes to understanding food...
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Marine life is facing mass extinction "within one human generation" and the state of seas is "much worse than we thought", says global panel of scientists...
SABMiller CE Graham Mackay says ‘it’s early days’ in the pursuit of Fosters, but the company may have to increase its offer that failed to impress the Australian brewer’s board. This commentary by The Economist...
...In a bold (sorry!) cross-category move, Lucas Bols BV and Rexam Personal Care — two firms with long traditions of innovation — have teamed to create the world's first foam liqueurs....
The winners in the 23rd DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation have been announced, representing breakthrough developments from brand giants such as Coca Cola, Intel, GlaxoSmithKlein and Heinz.
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