…ate less fast food and takeout food. Male participants, but not female participants, who had family dinners more often had a lower intake of sugar-sweetened beverages. Though the effects on…
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…industry group, which defends HFCS as “nearly identical to table sugar” often lobbies the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), America’s food regulator, which calls the additive safe. The same group…
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…coli, a bacteria commonly transmitted through food or water that can cause serious illness. Outbreaks happen regularly, and E. coli is just one of many agents that transmit foodborne illness…
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…Journalist’s Resource. “SNAP is effective at reducing food insecurity, which improves health,” she added. Forgoing Food Assistance out of Fear: Simulating the Child Poverty Impact of Making SNAP a Legal…
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…neighborhoods — often minorities — have little choice but to buy food at convenience stores or eat at fast-food restaurants, with predictably dire health consequences. But the results of some…
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…15 billion tons of fish per year, over 100 times more seafood than humans currently eat. In the case of Atlantic salmon — the most popular farmed variety — these farms…
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…through substitution effects within a household’s expenditures. The hypothesis that households with at least one smoker would allocate some funds toward cigarettes rather than food was tested by Tufts University…
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…as the “farm bill,” it costs about $100 billion per year these days (more than five times NASA’s budget). Most of that is spent on food stamps, but it also funds payments…
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…out, their options are limited. A 1996 law, signed by President Bill Clinton, imposed a lifetime ban on welfare benefits and food stamps to people convicted of a state or…
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…finds. SNAP is a program run by the United States federal government to help address food insecurity — limited access to food. The benefit, formerly known as food stamps, offers…
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