Associated Press   5/25/2012 10:55 AM   

NEW YORK -- What defines sugar? It's getting to be a stickier question. The Sugar Association is accusing the makers of high fructose corn syrup of trying to candy-coat their image by calling their product a "sugar." The Corn Refiners Association is ...

Associated Press     5/20/2012 11:58 PM   

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sunscreen confusion won't be over before summer after all. The government is bowing to industry requests for more time to make clear how much protection their lotions really offer. The Food and Drug Administration ordered changes ...

By BRIAN PARR   Feature columnist   5/20/2012 11:57 PM   

Bob recently lost 50 pounds following a low-carbohydrate diet. After he reached this goal, he went back to his normal diet. To his disappointment, he started gaining the weight back even though he was exercising every day. Bob's experience is all too ...

By BRIAN PARR   Feature columnist   5/14/2012 12:16 AM   

I had the opportunity to speak to the students at Mead Hall school about exercise, nutrition and health recently. I enjoyed the challenge of providing information that would be relevant for everyone in the room, including students in preschool throug ...

By LINDSEY TANNER   Associated Press   5/11/2012 12:04 PM   

CHICAGO -- A pill to prevent HIV infection is already being given to some healthy people, but without government approval, it remains out of reach and too costly for many who need it. Doctors, patients and advocates say that would change if the Food ...

  Associated Press   5/11/2012 11:49 AM   

CLEVELAND — A 9-year-old Ohio boy who weighed more than 200 pounds and was removed from his mother's custody over health concerns has been returned to her care after slimming down. The Cleveland Heights boy was placed in foster care last fall ...

  Associated Press   5/9/2012 11:12 AM   

ATLANTA — Family members say a Georgia college student who hurt her leg in a zip line accident is now battling for her life after a flesh-eating disease took hold in the gash on her leg. Andy Copeland tells The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (ht ...

By STACEY MOSIER   Web content manager   5/8/2012 11:19 AM   

Beware of Trans Fats Trans fats hide in the best of places - dry creamer, peanut butter, yogurt-covered raisins, ready cake mix and even frozen pizza. Food packaging is allowed to state 0 grams of trans fat if there is less than .5 grams per individ ...

By TRACIE CONE   Associated Press   4/25/2012 10:23 AM   

The movement by U.S. food corporations toward more humane treatment of animals experienced a whopper of a shift Wednesday when Burger King announced that all of its eggs and pork will come from cage-free chickens and pigs by 2017. The decision by the ...

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR   Associated Press   4/23/2012 10:17 AM   

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In a rebuke to the Obama administration, government auditors are calling for the cancellation of an $8 billion Medicare program that congressional Republicans have criticized as a political ploy. The nonpartisan Government Account ...

  Associated Press   4/20/2012 12:17 PM   

NEW YORK -- Starbucks Corp. says it will stop using a red dye in its drinks that is derived from crushed bugs. The Seattle-based coffee chain said in a blog post on its website Thursday that it made the decision to reformulate its drinks after feedba ...

By FRANK JORDANS   Associated Press   4/11/2012 11:36 AM   

GENEVA — Cases of dementia — and the heavy social and financial burdens associated with them — are set to soar in the coming decades as life expectancy and medical care improve in poorer countries, the World Health Organization says ...

By Brian B. Parr   bparr@usca.edu   4/1/2012 11:33 PM   

Think about your lunch yesterday or dinner last night. Do you really know what you ate? If it is food that you ordered at a restaurant or that came in a package, you may not know. You can probably pick out the main ingredients, but additives and pres ...

By MICHAEL HILL   Associated Press   3/30/2012 11:52 AM   

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Whole Foods Market said Friday that it will stop selling fish caught from depleted waters or through ecologically damaging methods, a move that comes as supermarkets nationwide try to make their seafood selections more sustainable. St ...

By Bill Ward   McClatchy-Tribune   3/25/2012 11:12 PM   

Why are 70 million Americans having trouble getting a good night's sleep? Let us count the ways: We are over-caffeinated (coffee, soft drinks, energy drinks, snacks) and over-medicated (prescription and over-the-counter drugs, including alcohol), wre ...

By BRIAN B. PARR   Feature columnist   3/18/2012 11:46 PM   

You are probably aware that eating too much fat and sugar is bad for your health. Excessive consumption of both sugar and fat is associated with obesity and other chronic diseases. You are probably also aware that there has been a movement toward red ...

By MICHAEL HILL   Associated Press   3/15/2012 11:24 AM   

ALBANY, N.Y. -- School districts soon will be able to opt out of a common ammonia-treated ground beef filler critics have dubbed "pink slime." Amid a growing social media storm over so-called "lean finely textured beef," the U.S. Department of Agricu ...

By Brian B. Parr   Columnist   3/11/2012 11:19 PM   

What does a caveman know about nutrition and health? If you have been paying attention to a recent health trend, the popular Paleo diet - being more like a caveman - might just be the answer to good health. It turns out that there is good reason to t ...

By Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz   McClatchy-Tribune   3/11/2012 11:18 PM   

Women waging losing battles against cellulite saw a rare beacon of hope last month, when the Food and Drug Administration cleared "the world's first and only" one-time laser treatment clinically proven to reduce cellulite by disrupting its underlying ...

  Staff reports   3/2/2012 12:00 PM   

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service has launched a series of Twitter feeds that will provide state-specific, food safety alerts to consumers. Followers of these Twitter accounts will receive alerts abo ...