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House Approves Food Safety Bill

Change gives sweeping new authority to FDA to regulate way food is grown, harvested, processed.

 

Blue M&Ms linked to reducing spine injury

Blue M&Ms linked to reducing spine injury

The same blue food dye found in M&Ms and Gatorade could be used to reduce damage caused by spine injuries, offering a better chance of recovery, according to new research. The only side effect was that the treated mice temporarily turned blue.

 

Iced Coffees Can Pack As Many Calories As a Meal

Iced Coffees Can Pack As Many Calories As a Meal

Enjoying an iced coffee? Better skip dinner or hit the gym afterwards, with a cancer charity warning that some iced coffees contain as many calories as a hot dinner.

 

South Korean creates kimchi that won't smell

South Korean creates kimchi that won't smell

Kim Soon-ja says her freeze-dried pickled cabbage, which has the taste but not the odor many associate with the national dish, will appeal to foreigners and fussy Koreans.

As a connoisseur of kimchi, South Korea's national dish, Kim Soon-ja takes a package of the fermented cabbage everywhere -- even overseas.

 

G-8 Announces $20 Billion for Food Plan

G-8 Announces $20 Billion for Food Plan

The three-year investment fund to help farmers in the developing grew from $15 billion just days ago.

 

Fight holiday belly bulge

Fight holiday belly bulge

If you pigged out at cookouts on July 4th, try these 6 tricks to fight belly bloat fast.

 

Chestnut chows down record 68 hot dogs

Setting a new world record, Joey Chestnut won Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest on Saturday, solidifying himself to many as the greatest gustatory athlete of all time.

 

Bacon entrepreneurs bring in the bucks

Tired of hearing that everything tastes like chicken? So are Seattle entrepreneurs Justin Esch and Dave Lefkow. They want it all to taste like bacon.

 

5 healthy grocery savings tips

5 healthy grocery savings tips

Are you sick of grocery shopping busting your budget – and your diet – before you even hit the checkout line?!  Personal trainer and Holistic Health counselor Christine Boutross shared with us her top Fabulous & Frugal shopping tips that will benefit your body – and your wallet!

 

Cookie-dough illnesses may result in 200 layoffs

A Nestle plant linked to an outbreak of illness has been shut temporarily, and the company said Monday that it expects to lay off more than 200 workers as a result.

 

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