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Obesity used to be seen as a problem only for Americans, with their love of fast food and aversion to exercise. But over the past two decades, Europe's waistlines have been steadily expanding too. In fact, from 1990 to 2006, obesity levels in Europe tripled, according to statistics from...
Food labels are a big issue in the U.S. at the moment too. Earlier this month, a lobbying group called the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) issued a report calling for the U.S. government to require food and drink companies to summarize nutritional information with "easy to...
The CIAA, the European food-and-drink-industry body, also believes the voluntary back-of-package guideline-daily-amount (GDA) labels are good enough. "While there is no silver bullet to tackling obesity, we are already doing a lot," says Mella Frewen, the head of the group. "Issues such as...
So what did all this venting of spleen actually accomplish? Not much. Netanyahu apologized for the timing of the housing announcement, but then the Israelis declared they would proceed with the construction of the new homes in Jerusalem anyway - and even started taking bids for 300 more. The Administration's...
The legislation was sponsored by the Slovak National Party, an ultra-nationalist outfit whose controversial leader, Jan Slota, is known for his xenophobic slurs, which are often aimed at the country's ethnic Hungarians. But Slota maintains that he doesn't just want to instill more patriotism among the Hungarian...