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Peanut Allergic Children Are Being Fed Peanuts

YoopyaFeb 3, 2014November 1, 20230

Children who are allergic to peanuts are aware of the grave consequences that can happen if they are fed even a quarter of a peanut.

The fat cost of fast food: Each fast food meal bumps up BMI by .03, study says

YoopyaFeb 3, 2014November 1, 20230

Everyone knows fast food isn’t healthy, and it’s been linked to weight gain and the obesity epidemic. After all, most fast food is laden with

Food stamps: how House, Senate negotiators agreed to cut $800 million a year

YoopyaJan 29, 2014November 25, 20230

The agreed-upon cuts to food stamps are significantly less than what the House had requested, but double what the Senate had proposed. The compromise could

The Food May Be Fast, but These Customers Won’t Be Rushed

YoopyaJan 28, 2014December 3, 20230

With its low coffee prices, plentiful tables and available bathrooms, McDonald’s restaurants all over the country, and even all over the world, have been adopted

The new face of food stamps: working-age Americans

YoopyaJan 28, 2014November 25, 20230

WASHINGTON — In a first, working-age people now make up the majority in U.S. households that rely on food stamps — a switch from a

FDA says nutrition facts label will get a makeover

YoopyaJan 24, 2014November 25, 20230

WASHINGTON (AP) — After 20 years, the nutrition facts label on the back of food packages is getting a makeover. Knowledge about nutrition has evolved

Law’s Expanded Medicaid Coverage Brings a Surge in Sign-Ups

YoopyaJan 21, 2014November 4, 20230

WELCH, W.Va. — Sharon Mills, a disabled nurse, long depended on other people’s kindness to manage her diabetes. She scrounged free samples from doctors’ offices,

Storms battering the UK pushed price of fish and chips up by 10%

YoopyaJan 21, 2014November 4, 20230

Wholesale haddock prices are up 53.8% year-on-year to £1,474 a tonne, plaice is up 51.2% to £1,246 and whiting has risen 44.2% to £1,675, according

Mass. monks brewing beer like European brothers

YoopyaJan 16, 2014November 26, 20230

SPENCER, Mass. (AP) — For more than a century, Catholic Cistercian monks known as Trappists have been brewing and selling what many beer lovers consider

Doctors say cutting food stamps could backfire

YoopyaJan 10, 2014November 29, 20230

WASHINGTON (AP) — Doctors are warning that if Congress cuts food stamps, the federal government could be socked with bigger health bills. Maybe not immediately,