Entries tagged with 'health'
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NOLA Pizza Joint to Ban HFCS From Its Products
That's New Orleans, Louisiana, and high fructose corn syrup, if you're struggling with the alphabet soup above. The aptly named World's Healthiest Pizza will get rid of the junktastic sweetener in its food and will discontinue serving drinks or anything else that uses it. Effective January 1. Nice move, World's Healthiest! [Tip o' the hat: Jenn Sit]...More Fat Kids
As part of New York City's three- to five-year plan to serve healthier meals to its 1.1 million public-school children, Newsday reports, pizza calories are getting, well, sliced: "The deep-dish pizza, for example, went from 413 to 336 calories, with its total fat reduced from 46 percent to 27.5 percent and saturated fat reduced from 13 percent to 8 percent. Cholesterol in the pizza is down to 9 milligrams from 28." Hey, why not have the schools skip the sugar-laden Snapple, which they're now contractually obligated to sell, and serve the youngsters a nice, juicy slice of pie instead—regardless of...Pizza-Packin' Toddlers (Lay That Pizza Down)
The Associated Press, by way of the New York Times, reports that a study has found that toddlers and infants are eating too much fat. Among the comestible culprits? You guessed it: pizza. Even before their second birthday, many American children are developing the same bad eating habits that plague the nation's adults -- too much fat, sugar and salt and too few fruits and vegetables. A new study has found significant numbers of infants and toddlers are downing french fries, pizza, candy and soda. And I thought I couldn't relate to the kids these days....Slice is part of the Foodblog Ad Network. To advertise on this site or across a network of food-related weblogs, click here.
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