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FDA Updates Calorie-Posting Requirements [VIDEO]

FDA Proposes Calorie Counts on Menus

WASHINGTON -- Like it or not, many restaurant diners will soon know more about what they are eating under menu labeling requirements proposed Friday by the Food and Drug Administration. The requirements will force chain restaurants with 20 or more locations, along with bakeries, grocery stores, convenience stores and...

HCG 'Pregnancy Diet' Raises Concern [VIDEO]

New Dietary Guidelines Call for Less Salt, Sugar, Solid Fat

With the new year here and Americans everywhere trying to lose weight, the federal government's new dietary guidelines released today call for cutbacks in salt as well as in calories from added sugar and solid fats like butter. The guidelines, which come out every five years, tell people 51 and older, all blacks and...

Sample Scarfing: Americans Gorge Themselves at Club Stores

(Nov. 26) -- Whoever said there's no free lunch obviously didn't have a membership to a giant discount store like Costco or Sam's Club. Every day, millions of Americans head to these places under the auspices of shopping for ginormous cans of refried beans or 24-roll packs of paper towels or 64-roll packs of toilet...

Background on calories

The calorie is a pre-SI metric unit of energy. It was first defined by Nicolas Clément in 1824 as a unit of heat, entering French and English dictionaries between 1841 and 1867. In most fields its use is archaic, having been replaced by the SI unit of energy, the joule.

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