While U.S. consumers are more informed about fat content in foods than French consumers, U.S. obesity rates are nearly three times higher than compared to their French counterparts, according to a new study published in the British Food Journal. The findings suggest ...More
The Vegetable Oil Industry of Canada (VOIC) announced that Health Canada approved a new health claim advising consumers to replace dietary sources of saturated fat with polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats from vegetable oil to lower cholesterol. ...More
The American Heart Association (AHA) recently deemed almonds as a heart healthy food by allowing its Heart-Check Food Certification Program’s Heart-Check mark to be featured on almond packaging. ...More
New research out of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine affirms the role of a Mediterranean diet and improved heart health for those at risk for cardiovascular disease, even if the dietary changes aren’t coupled with weight loss. The findings, present at the ...More
Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine have discovered the differential health effects of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids, according to a new paper published in the journal Cell. The findings also provide improved tools and a ...More
The World Health Organization’s Regional Office for Europe and the Directorate-General for Health and Consumers of the European Commission developed a “Good Practice Appraisal Tool" to assess good practice elements of design, monitoring, evaluation and implementation of ...More
Consuming a diet rich in almonds helps reduce low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) and increase cardiovascular health, according to a study published in the journal Nutrition Review. ...More
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