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Walmart's New Health Food Push: Is It Too Hard to Swallow?
7:00AM 2/10/2012
By Alyce Lomax, The Motley Fool
Health Care, Safeway, Wal-Mart Stores, McDonald's, Whole Foods, Retail
Walmart, which has long been associated with cheap, high-calorie, low-nutrition foods, wants to get healthy: Its new "Great for You" initiative aims to show shoppers it can help them eat healthy on a budget. But can the retail tiger change its spots -- or it's rep?
McDonald's Turns On a Dime to Beat San Francisco's Happy Meal Law
10:45AM 12/05/2011
When San Francisco outlawed free toys with meals that don't meet certain nutritional requirements, the McDonald's Happy Meal looked set to become a bit less happy there. But Ronald and Co. have cooked up a clever solution.
Can You Make Better Soda at Home Than Coke or Pepsi?
10:00AM 11/15/2011
There's an unusual cola war brewing in the home-based pop market between SodaStream and Primo Water. But why make your own soda? Is it easier? Cheaper? Healthier? You're probably going to like all three answers.
Can Your School Afford Healthier Cafeteria Food?
11:15AM 6/13/2011
What parent could disagree with new federal mandates requiring that school food be healthier? Up until recently, most of them were crying that the new USDA guidelines, proposed in January, weren't strict enough, allowing "flavored" milk (read: sweetened) as long as it's non-fat or low-fat so...
Movie Theaters Not Happy With Popcorn Calorie Report
10:00AM 3/30/2011
If you are drawn to stories about foods with outrageous amounts of unhealthy fats, you already know that movie popcorn is as bad as it gets. The Center for Science in the Public Interest regularly exposes fat and calorie numbers that have your eyes popping along with the kernels: a large popcorn...
Top 10 Vegetables With the Most Nutritional Bang for Your Buck
9:00AM 3/08/2011
Leafy greens are touted as being good for you, and now here's added incentive to pick them up at the supermarket or farmer's market: They're among the best buys in terms of getting the most nutritional bang for your buck.
If you want to watch your wallet and also buy fresh vegetables that provide...
Top 10 Fruits With the Most Nutritional Bang for Your Buck
11:30AM 3/07/2011
healthcare, Economizer, Consumer Ally, Food, Family Money, Saving Money
Jennifer Langston jokes that her 2-year-old eats fruit like a bat, so that helped propel her to come up with nifty calculations on which fruits bring the most nutritional bang for your buck.
If you want to watch your budget and also buy fruits that provide pretty good nutrition, below are the...
So we're deep into the month of January, and if you're like me, you've already fallen off the wagon when it came to your New Year's resolution to lose weight.
But maybe some people are still hanging in there, trying hard to get in shape.
The findings of a new study by Mark Haub, professor of human nutrition at Kansas State University, might delight those who struggle to take off pounds with diets that restrict carbs, particularly sugary, gooey treats. Haub experimented on himself to see what would happen if he went on a...
S.F. to McDonald's: No Happy Meal toys in the city unless certain nutritional guidelines met
6:30PM 11/02/2010
San Francisco's Board of Supervisors today passed a controversial proposal that would ban toys and other marketing incentives from children's food -- like McDonald's Happy Meals -- unless those meals met the city's nutritional guidelines that limit fat, salt, sugar and calorie content.
In a...
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