Help With Fast Food and Chain Restaurant Choices

If you are waiting for your state to require nutrition labeling on menus and menu boards, don’t hold your breath! These things take years… and even then they may never actually see the light of day.
But I did discover this “nifty” tool called Wellternatives (by Wellsphere) that allows you to enter in foods you would [...]

Mobile Motivation: Using Your Cell Phone To Get Healthy

If you are looking for a free service and online community that will send you motivating text messages – or even nag you about diet and exercise – you may want to look at Wellphone.

What’s interesting to me about this is that it was my research project for my nutrition degree. [...]

Brown Rice Gets Health Claim Approval

This just in from Food Legislation News…
Brown rice has been added to the FDA-approved list of whole grains that may make health claims including reducing the risk of heart disease and some cancers.
Brown rice along with many other grains was prewviously excluded because its dietary fiber content was considered too low, but this requirement has [...]