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Peru cracks down on junk food in schools

Peru's president signed a new law Thursday designed to reduce child obesity by encouraging healthier eating habits in schools. The law regulates advertising for fatty foods and fizzy soft drinks in schools, the first step in a plan to ban some junk food altogether. Business groups, worried about their revenue, have reacted angrily to the plans. But President Ollanta Humala told them: "We cannot view our children as simply a market to generate sales and maximize profits."

Tougher food-safety rules in the works: Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz

SASKATOON - Canada's food watchdog is planning to impose tougher rules to deal with the threat of E. coli in slaughterhouses. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz says the Canadian Food Inspection Agency will strengthen E. coli testing in federally inspected establishments that use raw beef. Testing will increase between April and October — considered barbecue season.

Peru cracks down on junk food in schools

Peru's president signed a new law Thursday designed to reduce child obesity by encouraging healthier eating habits in schools. The law regulates advertising for fatty foods and fizzy soft drinks in schools, the first step in a plan to ban some junk food altogether. Business groups, worried about their revenue, have reacted angrily to the plans. But President Ollanta Humala told them: "We cannot view our children as simply a market to generate sales and maximize profits."

News Summary: Deep divide in Congress over domestic food aid in massive farm bill

DOWNSIZING: The House and Senate Agriculture Committees have laid the groundwork this week for reducing the size of the federal food stamp program, approving farm bills that would shrink the aid and alter the way people qualify for it. BIG CUTS: The House legislation would cut food stamps about $2.5 billion a year, or about 3 per cent. A Senate bill would cut less than a fifth of that amount. Last year more than 47 million people used the program.

House panel set to OK cut in food stamps as conservatives demand that the program be trimmed

WASHINGTON - A House committee rebuffed Democratic efforts Wednesday to keep the $80 billion-a-year food stamp program whole, as debate on the farm bill turned into a theological discourse on helping the poor. The House bill would cut about $2.5 billion a year — or a little more than 3 per cent — from the food stamp program, which is used by 1 in 7 Americans. The committee rejected an amendment by Democrats to strike the cuts 27-17, keeping them in the bill.

No, really - don't shop when you're hungry: study

By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study offers evidence to support what many people have learned for themselves: never go grocery shopping when you're hungry. Researchers found that people who hadn't eaten all afternoon chose more high-calorie foods in a simulated supermarket than those who were given a snack just before online food shopping.

Salt in foods is still high: US study

The amount of salt in foods that are processed or sold at fast food restaurants is still high despite calls by medical experts for people to cut sodium for better health, a US study said Monday. Americans on average eat more than twice the recommended daily allowance of salt, and as much as 80 percent of sodium consumption comes from salt that is added by restaurants or in the making of convenience foods, experts say.

760,000 Tons of food to arrive in Venezuela this week

Caracas, May 13 (EFE).- The Venezuelan government said Monday that this week a shipment of 760,000 tons of food will arrive in the country, all of it being the product of agreements reached during President Nicolas Maduro's recent tour through countries of the Mercosur trade bloc. "On this visit to Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil we arrived at some agreements ... (for) the first month of the food reserve, which is comprised of 760,000 tons," the minister responsible for food supplies, Felix Osorio, told state television.

Eating at Subway nearly as calorific as McDonald's: study

Think Subway is the lesser of fast food evils? Think again. A new US study has found that teens consumed nearly as many calories at the sandwich shop chain as they did when they ate at McDonald’s. It’s a finding that may take the steam out of Subway’s marketing pitch as the healthier, fresher alternative to fast food options. For their study, researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles recruited 97 teens aged 12 to 21 to purchase meals at McDonald’s and Subway restaurants on different days.

Some 800,000 people to need food aid in Niger: U.N.

NIAMEY (Reuters) - Some 800,000 people will require food aid in Niger in the coming months despite a good harvest last year due to problems supplying cereals to markets, which have pushed up prices, and an influx of Malian refugees, the United Nations said. The U.N. office for humanitarian coordination (OCHA) said they would need food from now until the start of the rainy season, which is usually in July, July and August.
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