Tag: Food and Beverage

The agency said that each 50 g portion of processed meat consumed by someone each day increases the risk of colon cancer by 18 percent. (iStock photo)

Bacon, hot dogs boost cancer risk: WHO

Robert King · October 26, 2015 2:25 pm

The American Academy of Pediatrics said in a report Monday that any amount of alcohol during any trimester of pregnancy increases the chances of birth defects. (iStock Photo)

No alcohol for pregnant women: report

Robert King · October 19, 2015 2:40 pm

EPA joined CFTC to protect the public from potential fraud, market abuse in the biofuel credit trading market. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

Energy and Environment

Probe into EPA’s biofuel standard begins as debate heats up

Kyle Feldscher · October 18, 2015 4:01 am

Binge drinking costs the U.S. nearly $250 billion a year, according to the CDC.Â (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Downing that gin downs the economy, too

Robert King · October 16, 2015 4:01 am

BPA is a chemical used for more than five decades to make hard clear plastics and epoxy resins that line the inside of steel and aluminum cans.Â (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

Taxpayer-funded anti-BPA activism is the real danger

Angela Logomasini · October 14, 2015 4:01 am

Report: U.S most obese in the world, fattest kids by a mile, tops for poor teen health

Paul Bedard · October 13, 2015 6:16 pm

According to the survey, 37 percent admitted to eating meat when they drank too much.Â (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Study: One-third of vegetarians eat meat when drunk

Rudy Takala · October 10, 2015 8:19 pm

Whole FoodsÂ is recalling all of its cut, wrapped and weighed Papillion organic Roquefort cheese because it has the potential to be contaminated with a deadly bacteria called Listeria moncytogenes.Â (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Whole Foods recalls contaminated Roquefort cheese

Robert King · October 8, 2015 2:58 pm

The administration doesn't believe they are "the appropriate vehicle for this important policy conversation about sustainability," according to a blog post from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Administration relents, won’t push climate in diet guidelines

Robert King · October 7, 2015 5:35 pm

"The hotel manager asked me last night to try their special breakfast,"Â Hillary Clinton wrote in a 2011 email.Â "They may try to send it up -- did they?" (AP Photo)Â
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Hillary Clinton and her ‘special breakfast’

Pete Kasperowicz · September 30, 2015 9:32 pm

Women 35 to 44 years old were the highest users of alcohol at about 18 percent, with college graduates second at 13 percent and unmarried women at nearly 13 percent.Â (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

1 in 10 pregnant women drink alcohol

Robert King · September 24, 2015 5:00 pm

Doritos releases rainbow-colored LGBT pride chips

Kelly Cohen · September 17, 2015 7:43 pm