The Change Mariner: Category: Industry

May 27, 2004

Bagged Salads #1 In Grocery Stores

The Ledger (FL): Grocers hope to lure customers with exotic greens because they are trying to expand on the success of other bagged greens, according to research from AC Nielsen, an international market research company. Customers willing to pay more...

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May 19, 2004

From Frozen to Feast: A Roast Turkey in Two Hours?

Oregon State Daily Barometer: Getting up at the crack of dawn to cook that Thanksgiving turkey may be a thing of the past, thanks to OSU scientists. Researchers at OSU have tuned in to a hot new innovation in food...

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May 15, 2004

EU: Genetically Modified Food OK To Eat

San Jose Mercury News: The European Union's head office said Friday that it would approve a type of genetically modified corn for human consumption, ending a six-year biotech moratorium that the United States has challenged at the World Trade Organization....

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May 8, 2004

Global Obesity

My Way News: About every fourth person on Earth is too fat. Obesity is fast becoming one of the world's leading reasons why people die. In an astonishing testament to globalization, this outbreak of girth is occurring just as doctors...

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May 7, 2004

Low-Carb Impact Affecting Krispy Kreme

Yahoo! News: Could the Krispy Kreme doughnut be the latest victim of the low-carb diet craze? The Winston-Salem-based doughnut maker said Friday that it is cutting its profit projection for this year by 10 percent because of lower demand for...

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May 3, 2004

Companies Rush to Sell Low-Carb Products

Baltimore Sun: Take a piece of pita bread, a little tuna, some olives and capers and -- presto -- it's a low-carb "sort of Mediterranean" pizza. The impact of the Atkins diet, the South Beach diet and other low-carbohydrate eating...

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April 26, 2004

Diabetes Reportedly to Double Worldwide by 2030

Yahoo! News: Diabetes rates will double worldwide by 2030, to 366 million people with the disease, even if the obesity rate remains stable, an international team of researchers reported on Monday. But the rate will go up even higher if,...

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April 19, 2004

Southern Arizona: Epicenter of Obesity Epidemic

The Arizona Daily Star: Americans are in grave danger of undoing the greatest achievement of medical science - the doubling of the human life span from four decades just a century ago to nearly 80 years today. The culprits are...

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March 31, 2004

Low-Carb Revolution Shakes Food Industry

Louisville CourierPress: America's growing appetite for low-carbohydrate foods has left people like Tony Stallone struggling to keep pace with demand. A vice president at online grocer Peapod, Stallone already offers more than 300 low-carb products featured in a special "aisle"...

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March 29, 2004

Ocean "Dead Zones" Threaten Planet

Yahoo! News: The spread of oxygen-starved "dead zones" in the oceans, a graveyard for fish and plant life, is emerging as a threat to the health of the planet, experts say. For hundreds of millions of people who depend...

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March 18, 2004

Nestle Turns To 'Phood' For Growth

Wall Street Journal (subscription): With the industry facing stagnant sales growth, Nestle is looking for growth in the intersection of food and pharmaceuticals -- a niche of nutritionally enhanced products known in the business as "phood." The company is betting...

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March 9, 2004

Obesity To Surpass Tobacco As #1 Killer

Yahoo! News: Americans are sitting around and eating themselves to death, with obesity closing in on tobacco as the nation's No. 1 underlying preventable killer. The government is offering constructive, even lighthearted, advice to fight what it calls an epidemic...

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More Complex Carbs + More Exercise = Greater Weight Loss

WebMD: The thinnest people eat the most carbs, a four-nation survey shows. If you've been following the latest U.S. diet fads, that isn't what you'd expect. But the data come from an intensive, four-nation study of more than 4,000 men...

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March 7, 2004

Childhood Obesity Rate Triples

San Jose Mercury News: The alarm over childhood obesity rang in 2002. New data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey showed that 15.5 percent of children were seriously overweight and 15 percent more were at risk of becoming...

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February 19, 2004

Low-Carb Boom Isn't Just For Dieters Anymore

New York Times: Marc and Connie Foreman are not on the Atkins, South Beach, Zone, Lindora or any other low-carbohydrate diet. Yet here they were, waiting for a table at T.G.I. Friday's, a restaurant they have only driven past for...

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February 17, 2004

Research in Italy Turns Up a New Form of Mad Cow Disease

New York Times: A new form of mad cow disease has been found in Italy, according to a study released yesterday, and scientists believe that it may be the cause of some cases of human brain-wasting disease. While the strain...

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February 11, 2004

Bird Flu Found At Second Delaware Site

Mercury News: Officials responded to a new discovery of bird flu Tuesday by ordering a quarantine of 80 farms and the slaughter of 72,000 more chickens. The swift action was aimed at averting more bans on U.S. exports. The second...

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February 8, 2004

Low-Carb Impact

Times Dispatch: Restaurants everywhere are racing to put low-carb foods on their menus, as Americans turn en masse to the high-protein, low-carb lifestyle. Cheeseburgers and bunless burgers are rampant, as are buffalo wings and sour cream. But there are casualities,...

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February 4, 2004

High-Carb Foods In A Low-Carb Nation

New York Times: While only about 3.5 percent of Americans, or about 10 million people, are following a low-carb diet, about four times that many people have tried such diets within the last year, according to the NPD Group, a...

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February 3, 2004

Is Low-Carb Pizza Next?

Albany Democrat-Herald: Pizza might be hailed as the food of the gods, one of America's best-loved meals, a hearty delectable dish that fills the stomach and seems to soothe the soul. But to low-carb dieters, it's just a gut-busting disk...

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February 1, 2004

Blueberries: Fastest Growing Fruit

EDP24 News (UK): They conjure up thoughts of America and mum's home-cooking. Now the humble blueberry, an unfamiliar sight on our market stalls, is making its mark in Britain as the new taste sensation. And Norfolk has the perfect opportunity...

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January 28, 2004

Blood Transfusion Suspected in New Mad Cow Case

New York Times: A new blood transfusion is suspected in a new mad cow case in Britain. A Food and Drug Administration policy announced on Monday banning the feeding of cattle blood to calves was partly based on a new...

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January 11, 2004

Post Mad Cow: Examining Our Food Production System

New York Times: By the reductive logic that rules our food system, cannibalism should be as legitimate a way of eating as any other: it's all just protein, right? Yet the great unlearned lesson of B.S.E. and other similar brain-wasting...

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January 7, 2004

McDonald's Suggests Low-Fat Menu Option

Yahoo! News: With Americans fattening up and fast food on the defensive, McDonald's this week began telling dieters in the New York area how much fat and carbs are in some of its meals. New posters and brochures, prominently displayed...

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January 6, 2004

Mad Cow Forces Beef Industry to Change Course

New York Times: Jeffrey Behling, a dairy farmer in Washington State, used to burn the carcasses of his hobbled "downer" cattle until he found there was a market for their meat. Even so, selling damaged cows for human consumption never...

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December 27, 2003

U.S.: 'Mad Cow' Came From Canada

Reuters: The U.S. Agriculture Department says it believes a dairy cow infected with mad cow disease was imported from Canada in 2001. Ron DeHaven, the USDA's chief veterinarian, told reporters on Saturday the cow was one of 74 cattle imported...

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December 24, 2003

Import Bans Turn Tables on U.S. Industry

San Francisco Chronicle: The apparent discovery of mad cow disease in a lone cow from Washington state poses no immediate health concerns, but it could deliver a body blow to the entire nation's beef industry. It remains to be seen...

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December 23, 2003

Stampede of Diabetes as U.S. Races to Obesity

The New York Times: The incidence of diabetes has been rising in recent years, in children as well as in adults. Considering only diagnosed cases in adults, the prevalence rose 40 percent in the 1990's, from 4.9 percent to 6.9...

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December 19, 2003

Egg Prices and Consumption Climb

KAIT (Arkansas): Egg prices are up, way up. In fact, the price of eggs jumped up another nickle a dozen this week, even though as Americans, we are eating more eggs than ever before. According to the United Egg Producers,...

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December 18, 2003

Book: Underage and Overwight

Amazon.com Review: Frances Berg, MS, LN, has spent years researching and writing about weight and eating. Now, in response to the growing crisis affecting America's youth, she brings her lifetime of knowledge to bear on the problem of obesity in...

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December 17, 2003

Kraft Co-CEO Betsy Holden Demoted After Setbacks

FOXNews.com: Betsy Holden, under fire for months as Kraft Foods Inc. struggled through a down period, lost her job as co-chief executive when the food and beverage giant abandoned its dual CEO structure and left�Roger Deromedi in charge. ... American...

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CKE Restaurants Tout 'Low-Carb' Burger

Yahoo! News: Hardee's and Carl's Jr. fast-food chains consider it thinking outside the bun -- capitalizing on America's low-carbohydrate craze, they're launching a bunless, lettuce-wrapped burger with just a handful of carbs. CKE Restaurants Inc., the chains' parent, has unveiled...

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December 16, 2003

F.D.A. Moves to Let Drug Treat Obese Teenagers

The Food and Drug Administration effectively approved the use of an obesity drug, Xenical, for adolescents yesterday. This is the first time that a weight-loss drug has been permitted to treat overweight children. A spokeswoman for the drug agency...

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December 4, 2003

Generation D: Young Adults with Diabetes

ABCNEWS.com: Type 1 diabetes, in which the body does not produce insulin, is traditionally seen in children and adolescents. But over the last decade, type 2 diabetes -- formerly known as adult-onset diabetes -- has increased by 70 percent in...

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November 29, 2003

As Obesity Rises, Health Care Indignities Multiply

New York Times: Obesity is the fastest-growing major health problem in the United States. In 2000, 31 percent of American adults were obese, up from 23 percent in 1990 and 13 percent in 1960, according to the Centers for Disease...

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November 24, 2003

More Restaurants Start To Cash In On Low-Carb Craze

WRAL (Raleigh, NC): They are often debated, but low-carbohydrate diets are more popular than ever. Still, many dieters get bored eating the same type of food every day. In the past, eating out left even fewer options, but restaurants are...

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November 23, 2003

Food-Borne Illness From Imported Produce on the Rise

NYT: To consumers who took nutritionists' advice seriously and began eating more fruits and vegetables, word that fresh green onions could carry the hepatitis virus came as a shock. Yet the recent outbreaks of hepatitis A linked to contaminated scallions...

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Animals Cloned for Food No Longer Draw Collective Yawn

New York Times: ... But cloning is back. And this time, the F.D.A. and consumer groups are involved, asking, Is it safe to eat a clone? Can you safely drink a clone's milk? If you breed a clone, can you...

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November 20, 2003

China to unify organic food standards

China Daily: China is trying to set a unified organic food standard to improve the authentication of such products. A press release from the organization committee for the China AG Trade Fair (ATF) noted that China now has many authentication...

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November 12, 2003

Relationship of Advertising to Obesity?

Guardian: ... Awareness of global emblems is already strongly implanted in the very young. Last year the International Journal of Advertising and Marketing to Children reported that 31% of three-year-olds remember having seen the Coca-Cola logo, 69% McDonald's and 66%...

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November 9, 2003

Breadmakers Feel Pain From Atkins Diet

Yahoo! News: Some bakers around the country are seeing a similar drop in business: With millions of people trying the diet created by the late low-carb guru Dr. Robert Atkins, overall bread sales are flat or down slightly, while bread-bashing...

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November 7, 2003

Boom in Organic Baby Food in UK

Sky News: Sales of organic food and drink are booming in the UK. The Soil Association reports that annual sales have risen above �1bn for the first time. It said demand for organic baby food was particularly strong, with...

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November 1, 2003

Obesity Rise Not Fattening Fitness Firms

Yahoo! News: Americans are contending with ever-expanding waistlines, but they aren't flocking to the companies focused on helping them fight the problem. Since 1980, the rate of obesity has doubled among U.S. adults and tripled among adolescents, according to the...

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October 25, 2003

Study: Infants Eat Fries, Drink Soft Drinks

Yahoo! News: U.S. infants are eating fattening foods such as french fries and drinking soft drinks instead of milk, which may help explain the country's growing obesity problem, researchers said on Saturday. A survey of the eating habits of 3,000...

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October 23, 2003

Junk food is fooling people into overeating

Times Online: Fast food restaurants are feeding the obesity epidemic by tricking people into eating many more calories than they mean to, an important study has shown. Typical menus at McDonald�s, KFC and Burger King contain 65 per cent more...

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Oakland Bans Wal-Mart

San Francisco Chronicle: Oakland has become the latest Bay Area locality to ban big-box retailers that sell low-cost groceries, claiming they imperil neighborhood business districts and generate traffic headaches. Wal-Mart is not mentioned by name in the ordinance passed 7-1...

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October 16, 2003

Norton Signs Historic Water Pact in West

Aberdeen News (South Dakota): Interior Secretary Gale Norton signed a deal Thursday meant to end years of bickering among California and six other states that rely on Colorado River water. The deal ensures more water for fast-growing cities in Southern...

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October 15, 2003

Potential Seen in Hawaii-Made Chocolate

Mercury News ... "These are two words that the world knows: Hawaii and chocolate. You don't have to construct the definition anywhere," said Richard Oszustowicz, founder of Hawaii Gold Cacao Tree Inc., a company on the Big Island with...

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October 14, 2003

Kraft Foods Makes Unprecedented Commitment to Taking Sustainable Coffee Mainstream

Environmental Network News: The Rainforest Alliance today announced a unique partnership with Kraft Foods to promote sustainability and equity from the coffee farm to the consumers' cup. In an unprecedented multi-year arrangement, Kraft Foods has committed to purchase over 5...

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Tours to offer taste of Hawai'i

Honolulu Advertiser: The month-old Saturday-morning Farmers' Market in the shady Kapi'olani Community College parking lot below Diamond Head is just the beginning of a number of new projects pairing the University of Hawai'i system with local farmers, the tourist industry...

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