Archive for the ‘portion control’ Category

NYC Health Dept. Keeps the Pressure On

Monday, January 16th, 2012

Last year, New York City got some good news: childhood obesity rates dropped for the 2010 – 2011 school year. Although it’s too soon to call it a trend, the fact that they fell at all was taken as a sign that the city’s anti-obesity/health initiatives were having an impact. Among those initiatives were some pretty hard-hitting ads from

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NYC Health Dept. Keeps the Pressure On

Should Serving Sizes be More Realistic?

Friday, August 5th, 2011

The Center for Science in the Public Interest certainly thinks so: Labels for canned soup, ice cream, coffee creamer, and aerosol non-stick cooking sprays understate the calories, sodium, and saturated fat consumers are likely to get from those products, since the declared serving sizes are much smaller than actual serving sizes, according to the Center

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Should Serving Sizes be More Realistic?