The landmark approval of a health claim for oats in 1997 by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) marked the first food specific health claim. The FDA had concluded that an intake of at least glucan from oats as part of a diet low in saturated fats could help reduce the risk of heart disease (Chapter 17). Of importance is that the oat health claim signifies for the first time…
Nutrition is one of the most important factors in protecting and developing human health beginning from the pregnancy stage of the mother. Healthy, satisfactory and balanced nutrition is essential for everybody, especially for children, because nutritional habits that are made in our early ages turn out to be our lifetime habits. Infancy, childhood and adolescence periods, as being periods…
IUFoST is a federation of 65 countries (represented by their appropriate national bodies, known as Adhering Bodies), and four regional groupings in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America. It is thus a global organization for over 200,000 food scientists and technologists and the world voice on food science and technology. It represents food science and technology to other world bodies such …
Health care accounts for over one-sixth of the U.S. economy! In 2009, the year before passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), the Obama reform legislation, about 50 million Americans at any moment in time lacked health insurance. Health, health care costs, and health insurance have dominated the economic and political landscape in the United States and many other coun…
This publication gives in tabular form the nutritive values for household measures of commonly used foods. It was first published in 1960; the last revision was published in 1991. In this revision, values for total dietary fiber have been added and phosphorus values have been removed. Values are reported for water; calories; protein; total fat; saturated, monounsaturated, and polyunsaturated fa…