Alcohol is *not* having a moment: Dry January is booming. The sober-curious movement continues to pick up steam. And now, for the doozy: the Surgeon General released a warning linking alcohol directly to cancer after the World Health Organization declared any amount of alcohol consumption as unsafe. If you’re looking to get your buzz elsewhere,…

The Food and Drug Administration is taking a significant step to improve consumer access to nutrition information by proposing a front-of-package nutrition label for most packaged foods. This proposal aligns with the agency’s broader efforts to combat the nation’s chronic disease crisis. If implemented, the label would prominently display key nutritional information, including saturated fat,…

The Food and Drug Administration is taking a significant step to improve consumer access to nutrition information by proposing a front-of-package nutrition label for most packaged foods. This proposal aligns with the agency’s broader efforts to combat the nation’s chronic disease crisis. If implemented, the label would prominently display key nutritional information, including saturated fat,…

The FDA has proposed requiring front-of-package (FOP) nutrition labels on most packaged foods, categorizing levels of saturated fat, sodium, and added sugars as “Low,” “Medium,” or “High.” This initiative aims to combat chronic diseases like obesity and heart disease by making nutrition information more accessible. Modeled after systems in countries like the U.K., the labels…

The FDA has proposed requiring front-of-package (FOP) nutrition labels on most packaged foods, categorizing levels of saturated fat, sodium, and added sugars as “Low,” “Medium,” or “High.” This initiative aims to combat chronic diseases like obesity and heart disease by making nutrition information more accessible. Modeled after systems in countries like the U.K., the labels…

Food manufacturers may have to put nutritional labels on the front of packaged foods within the next few years, according to a proposal the United States Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday. The front-of-package labels would be required for “most packaged foods” and they are part of the FDA’s attempt to push back against the…

Along with starting a few resolutions for the new year, I checked my mailbag. Joyce M. writes, “I enjoyed your column on cranberries in the Dallas Morning News. Several of the health benefits were new to me, but I was educated on cranberry production by elderly Wisconsin relatives who worked on the farms. “For years…

The FDA says front-of-package labels would allow consumers to more easily assess how much sugar, fat and salt packaged foods and drinks contain. Image: d3sign/Getty images The Food and Drug Administration wants to change how packaged food is sold in the U.S. In the waning days of the Biden administration, the agency has proposed requiring…

The Food and Drug Administration released on Tuesday its long-awaited proposal to require food manufacturers to put some nutrition facts on the front of packages, in a bid to nudge Americans and food companies towards healthier diets in line with similar pushes in other countries. FDA’s new “nutrition info box” focuses on telling people whether…

CNN  —  The US Food and Drug Administration is proposing nutrition information be placed on the front of packaged foods to provide at-a-glance information about saturated fat, sodium and added sugar. “This proposal plays a key role in the agency’s nutrition priorities, which are part of a government-wide effort in combatting the nation’s chronic disease…