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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

Food companies cut 6.4 trillion calories

YoopyaJan 9, 2014December 10, 20230

WASHINGTON (AP) — Some of the nation’s largest food companies have cut calories in their products by more than 6.4 trillion, according to a new

Avoid raw milk due to infection risks: pediatricians

YoopyaDec 16, 2013April 14, 20230

(Reuters Health) – Pregnant women, babies and kids should not drink raw or unpasteurized milk, a group of pediatricians said on Monday. Because of infection

Champagne widows stamped grand legacy on wine

YoopyaDec 9, 2013May 31, 20230

REIMS, France (AP) — For Champagne to become the tipple it is today — popped at weddings, quaffed in casinos, sprayed by racing drivers and