In light of the potential dangers revealed in a post marketing study, the weight loss drug Meridia has been rejected by the FDA and withdrawn from the market by its manufacturer. The study consisted of subjects who would be considered high risk for heart disease and results showed that Meridia actually increased these subjects’ chances [...]
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Negative Calories is Only Wishful Thinking This myth of negative calorie foods is one of many discussed in the new book Why Calories Count: From Science to Politics. It is the authors’ contention that many people are incorrect in many assumptions about calories due to factors such as advertising and the simple refusal to believe obvious facts. A...
Kellogg’s is Going into the Snack Business The Kellogg’s cereal brand may be the most famous one around, but economic change has made the company’s profits stay flat the last few years according to an article in the New York Times. The company is purchasing the Pringles snack brand to diversify since many private label cereals are cutting...
Women in Sweden Consuming Fiber have Lower Incidence... Lund University in Sweden has followed the diets of over 20,000 people to examine the effects of some nutrients in relation to cardiovascular disease. The results showed that women who ate a diet high in fiber had 25% less chance of suffering from heart disease than those women who ate a diet low in...
Harvard or USDA? The Harvard School of Public Health has recently issued a comparison of their Healthy Eating Plate to the USDA MyPlate. While both plates are designed to take the place of the old food pyramid the Harvard School of Public Health Website raises some good points about the differences between the two. One...
Red Meat Continues to Look Bad for Health The Archives of Internal Medicine recently published data from two studies that followed the diets of over 120,000 men and women from 1980 to 2006. After reviewing the data researchers found an increase in the mortality rate for people who consumed more red meat. According to researchers an increase...
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A recent study with researchers from Duke University has revealed that one of the biggest health related costs that stems from obesity is “presenteeism,” or lost productivity due to poor health. Researchers gathered data for the study from information gathered from more than sixty thousand people in the 2008 National Health and Wellness Survey. The [...]
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When you talk about sustainable living, green practices like recycling, energy conservation and composting are often common topics, but a recent study at Michigan State University reveals a topic that consumers rank even higher. According to the study, food safety ranks highest in importance among both consumers and producers of food when it comes to [...]
The astronomical costs of caring for people with obesity related conditions has caused the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development to takes off it’s financial hat for a second and focus on something a bit different. The OECD has performed the first ever Obesity Forecast and the news isn’t good for the US. According to [...]
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A recent article covering the trends in snack food consumption in Canada revealed that our neighbors to the north are actually consuming more snacks meals per person, per year than we are in the US. The Canadian average of snack meals consumed per person annually sits at around three hundred, where the US average is [...]
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If you are eating more than foods that you have just picked from the tree or the vine, you want to make sure that you carefully examine the nutrition label prior to putting the contents of the package into your body. The nutrition label holds all of the valuable information that you need to know [...]
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A healthy vending machine may sound like a bit of an oxymoron, but there is a company (Fresh Healthy Vending) that is making it happen. The traditional fare from vending machines; consisting of chips, cookies, cakes, sodas and other empty calorie, high fat indulgences is being replaced by Fresh Healthy Vending with all natural, good [...]
A report published by the Hartman Group in early August revealed that consumer spending on wellness products is on the rise. What’s even more important is that, according to the research, it’s not just the same small percentage of health conscious consumers spending more of their hard earned dough to achieve better health, it’s a much [...]
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Another Summer has completely flown by and that means one thing to our nation’s youth – it’s time to hit the books again. During the Summer, some of us have the opportunity to keep a little closer of an eye on our kids during the course of the day (until they become teenagers of course). [...]
Category : About Almonds, Company, Nutrition
At Awesome Almonds® we understand that some of the best things in life are those that are made with a personal touch – after all, it’s tough to feel the love in something that has come off a giant assembly line. That’s why we put together the highest quality all natural ingredients, like 100% California [...]