Nutrition

Food Labels and Special Diets
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
People on special diets - such as those with kidney disease, food sensitivities, and bowel disease- are among the many who are benefiting from information given in the new food label.

Sugar Substitutes: Other Sweetener Choices
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Acesulfame Potassium: First approved in 1988 as a tabletop sweetener, acesulfame potassium, also called Sunett, is now approved for products such as baked goods, frozen desserts, candies, and, most recently, beverages.

Genetic Engineering: Future Foods
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Though genetic engineering promises better and more plentiful products, genetically engineered foods may encounter a few obstacles to widespread public acceptance. Some consumers, along with a few advocacy groups, have voiced concern about the safety

Introduction
Fit Kids
by Eileen Behan
In the late 1990s I began working on a book I would never write called The Power of Food in the Family. In it, I intended to make the case that food can be a means to strengthen families.

Hooked on Seafood: Seafood Safety
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Summertime is prime time for seafood. But some consumers are worried about whether fish is safe. While there are some snags - especially with raw shellfish - generally seafood is a safe catch.

The Health Effects of Caffeine
by Health Canada
Caffeine in its natural and added forms is found in a growing list of products including coffee, tea, cola beverages, new energy drinks, chocolate and even some medicines. The increasing presence of caffeine in our lives raises the question of how much

Dietary Supplements: More is Not Always Better
by National Institute on Aging
Dietary supplements used to make you think only of vitamins and minerals. But, today this big business makes and sells many different types of dietary supplements that have vitamins, minerals, fiber, amino acids, herbs, or hormones in them.

Guide to Fats : Learning from Other Cultures
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
People living on the Greek island of Crete have very low rates of heart disease even though their diet is high in fat. Most of their dietary fat comes from olive oil, a monounsaturated fat that tends to lower levels of bad; LDL-cholesterol and maintain

Lite, Low Fat Food
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Until now, terms like lite, low fat, lean on food packages could have been nothing more than advertising hype. But now, under the new food labeling regulations, these and other descriptive terms can only be used in specific circumstances.

Guide to Fats
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Is margarine better for your blood vessels than butter? Is dousing your salad with olive oil wise? Is it true what they say about omega fatty acids? The latest in fat science gives some of the answers.

Food Labels: Making it Easier to Shed Pounds
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
In the past, diet-conscious consumers couldn't always count on the food label to give complete nutrition information. Now that's changing. Weiss has learned that label information can play an important role in weight management.

Authorized Health Claims
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Low calcium intake is one risk factor for osteoporosis, a condition of lowered bone mass, or density. Lifelong adequate calcium intake helps maintain bone health by increasing as much as genetically possible the amount of bone formed in the teens

Not Only Sugar is Sweet
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
People come by their love for sweetness naturally. Sugar - in moderation - may not be the villain it was made out to be a few years back. Its many forms, as well as its substitutes, give consumers a wide selection of ways to make life sweeter.

Sugar Substitutes: Sweeteners
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Foods sweetened with sugar are more popular than ever. But for people watching their waistlines, research shows that sweeteners such as saccharin and aspartame can help keep calories down as part of a diet and exercise program.

Fat-Reduced Milk Products : Dietary Significance
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Switching from higher fat to lower fat milk products can have a particularly significant impact on lowering fat and saturated fat intakes because milk plays such an important role in the American diet, CSPI's Wootan says.

Use Pasteurized Milk
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Pasteurization, since its adoption in the early 1900s, has been credited with dramatically reducing illness and death caused by contaminated milk. But today, some people are passing up pasteurized milk for what they claim is tastier and healthier

Sugar Substitutes: More Than a Century of Use
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The granddaddy of all sugar substitutes is saccharin. Discovered in 1879, it was used during both world wars to sweeten foods, helping to compensate for sugar shortages and rationing. It is 300 times sweeter than sugar.

Fat Substitutes
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Ice Cream without fat is one promise held out by a number of fat substitutes newly approved by FDA or under development. But questions about consumer acceptance and long-term dietary advantage make the ultimate fate of some unfats unclear.

Teens: Strong Bones: Avoid Bone Risks, Calcium!
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Some habits in the teenage years can steal calcium from your bones or increase the need for it, weakening the skeleton for life. Skipping meals is risky for bone, Welch says. In our three-meal-a-day society, skipping a meal may reduce by a third your

Nutrition Info for Raw Fruits, Vegetables, Fish
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Food shoppers across the country are helping themselves to information about the nutritional content of produce and fish as a result of an FDA program which is voluntary now, but could become mandatory if enough grocers don't participate.