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Naturally healthy? From marketing to mouth

Food products today read like a dictionary of health-promoting words: natural; healthy; light; made with wholegrains; and the list goes on. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is tasked with defining these terms. Last week the FDA announced a revision to the definition of “healthy” following a petition from snack bar manufacturer, KIND, to reflect...

Adriana Selwyn | May 24, 2016
FDA, food, healthy, HealthyFood, natural, Nutrition

Webinar Series 8: Food @ Work

REGISTER HERE FOR WEBINAR SERIES 8. Webinar 8 - Food @ Work, by David Eisenberg and Mark Erickson Learning objectives – On completion of this webinar the participant should be able to Evaluate the costs of poor diet to employers Outline the latest evidence base and recommendations on healthy eating in the workplace and at a population level...

Apr 15, 2015
diet, evidence-base, food, food@work, Nutrition, prevention, webinar, webinar series

The Young Professionals Forum for Action on NCDs: The Impact of International Trade on Health

We warmly invite you to join the Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network (YP-CDN) on Wednesday, July 9th in New York City for the Young Professionals Forum for Action on non-communicable diseases (NCDs), a discussion on international trade and health. The event will take place at Griffis Faculty Club, Weill Cornell Medical College (521 East 68th Street, New York, NY...

Jul 9, 2014
access to medicine, alcohol, collaboration, food, NCDs, noncommunicable disease, tobacco control, trade, UN, WHO, YP-CDN