Children with food restrictions need an environment where they can thrive, and don’t like to be singled out because it can isolate them from their peers – a number of articles this week talked about ways to do that. Sushi is not gluten-free, and restaurants and frozen food manufacturers are starting to be more savvy [...]
Gluten-free food labeling in the USA isn’t currently regulated, and the FDA is reopening the conversation to standardize labeling. The GM salmon discussion continues. Consumers don’t take much notice of HFCS on labels – nearly 40% look for information on fat or calories, 25% look for sugar content, and 3% look for HFCS. Colleges are [...]
A recent report by Deloitte (Consumer Food and Product Insights 2011) shows that 62% of the consumers surveyed would be interested in more food products available for sale that are low carbohydrate. Food Navigator-USA remarked that “Given the demise of Atkins, a surprising number (six out of 10) ... claimed that they would like to [...]
In the USA and UK this month, multi-stage carb-restricted / low processed food diets (Dukan Diet, 4-Hour Body, and 17-Day Diet) rule the roost for weight loss and healthy eating. Vegan and plant-based diets (The Kind Diet, Forks Over Knives, Vegan for Life, The Plant Program) are also prominent in special diets. The positions in [...]
Fast casual restaurants are offering healthier menu items with lower calories, and customers are starting to order them. They say that they’re eating smaller portions as well. They think that foods with added healthy ingredients are healthier than the absence of less healthy ingredients such as sugar, saturated fat, and sodium. A sustainable shrimp farm [...]
Vegetarian and vegan options in restaurants are increasing. The Environmental Working Group is encouraging people to forgo meat and cheese one day a week to save energy. Calorie-counting diets are shown in a Harvard Study (quoted in the NYT) to be going out of date. Between a third and a half of fruits and veggies [...]
There were a number of discussions this week about two studies on salt – one said that reducing salt doesn’t reduce cardiovascular disease (see last week) and one that says that too much salt and too little potassium increases risks. Genetically modified farmed salmon – it can reduce overfishing because the salmon are more efficient, [...]
A new Cochrane review announced that eating moderately less salt doesn’t reduce cardiovascular risk; the American Heart Association responds that people should reduce salt intake anyway. The USA dropped its opposition to labeling genetically modified foods, and demand for non-GM food in the USA may not be particularly strong. The number of meat and meat [...]
In the USA this month, a number of vegetarian books are at the top of the charts for best selling diet and healthy eating books; other than that it’s a mixed bag of low carb, low fat, and low processed foods diets. In the UK, there are no strong patterns. The Dukan Diet remains very [...]
Solutions like a very low-calorie diet and avoiding heavy dinners are suggested for diabetes. Naturalwashing, labeling products as natural, is common as there’s no standard definition of “natural” – can you believe the labels? “Grown in the USA” labels are becoming more popular, catching up with “natural” and “organic.” Researchers are working on man-made meat [...]
