Dieticians play vital role in HMC's healthcare services, says expert

From treating paediatric cases to adult patients, the Dietetics and Nutrition Department has over the years gained a valuable insight into the causes and effects of certain diets on patient health and have created special diets different patients.

Xtreme eats: Restaurant meals can pack on calories and fat

A trendy burger with more calories than two Quarter Pounders. A noodle combo with several days' worth of salt. Hotcakes with trans fat. Those are the kind of foods the Center for Science in the Public Interest takes aim at in the 2010 Xtreme Eating Awards.

New Dietary Guidelines Report Focuses on Obesity

The advisory committee that helps craft the nation's dietary guidelines considers the obesity epidemic to be "the single greatest threat to public health in this century" and, thus, focused a recent report on disseminating evidence-based guidelines and recommendations aimed at "halting and reversing the obesity problem through primary prevention and changes in behavior, the environment and the ...

Are you label literate?

You've probably heard some of the rules of the road when it comes shopping healthfully at the grocery store: Don't go shopping hungry because you're likely to buy more than you need. Shop the perimeter of the store, where you'll find the fresh stuff -- breads, meats, vegetables and fruits.

South Floridians hungry for `fast casual' restaurants

In the early 1980s, when Burger King's Whopper reigned over Miami's fast-food landscape, the ``Chop Chop'' and the ``Lite Quesadilla'' had yet to be served. But today, local entrepreneurs are cashing in on South Floridians' health consciousness and reveling in their salad days.