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School lunches to have more veggies, whole grains
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — The first major nutritional overhaul of school meals in more than 15 years means most offerings — including the always popular pizza — will come with less sodium, more whole grains and a wider selection of fruits...Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, Healthy Diet, Rachael Ray, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Politics
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Corn Products' CEO double stocks price with acquisition, strategy and sunny disposition
Ilene Gordon certainly wasn't the first young girl in the 1960s to balk when told she had to take home economics instead of shop class. It's what she did about it that foreshadowed her path to the latest list of Fortune magazine's 50 most powerful women...Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, John Carpenter, Movies, Hospitals and Clinics, Commuting
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China: A domestic wine industry starts to take root
A few months before the 2008 Beijing Olympics, I read a blog post by an Atlantic Monthly correspondent about Chinese wine.
Chinese what?
I grew up outside New York City, where I ate hundreds of pounds of lo mein and pork-fried rice but didn't see, taste...Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, France, Peace Corps, New York City, Wines
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Salt: It's only half the battle
Bread ranked first among the 10 foods responsible for 44 percent of sodium intake in the U.S., followed by luncheon meats and pizza, according to "The 10 saltiest foods in the American Diet" by my colleagues over at The Stew. But the new report "Where'...
Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Julie Deardorff, Breads, Food Industry
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Rawlings-Blake readies for battle over proposal to raise bottle tax
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's administration is gearing up for a tough fight over her plan to raise Baltimore's bottle tax to pay for repairs to dilapidated city schools.
A bill to increase the 2-cent tax to 5 cents – and devote all bottle-tax...Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, Finance, Justice and Rights, American Civil Liberties Union, Baltimore County
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Majoring in chic at L.A.'s fashion schools
Los Angeles TimesIn a bustling part of downtown L.A., a high-rise is teeming with stylish young women in short skirts and full makeup wheeling small suitcases in and out of elevators on their way to class. They're students at the Fashion Institute of Design &...Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, Badgley Mischka, Cirque du Soleil, Education, Companies and Corporations
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Ravens, NFL pursue online sellers of bogus merchandise
As the Ravens drove toward the playoffs, Barbra Skarzynski wanted to buy her son a team jersey as a Christmas gift. She searched Google for Lardarius Webb gear, quickly found a site that billed itself as an official store of the Ravens, and bought a...Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, Credit and Debt, Law Enforcement, Sports, Football
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Why we're fat, Part 4: Outside forces affect what we eat, how much exercise we get
Beyond what we eat, what we're born with and what we do, our environment contributes in major — and mostly unnoticed — ways to our health and our weight.
All have conspired to make two-thirds of adult Americans and one-third of American...Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, Health Organizations, World War II (1939-1945), Diabetes, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Salad industry on hunt for solution to tainted greens
For millions of Americans, bagged salads are a miracle food, the perfect mix of health and convenience.
Time-pressed cooks can rip open a bag and pour the leaves right into the bowl, reassured by the "triple-washed" label that some wondrous process has...Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, Chicago, Diseases and Illnesses, Medical Procedures and Tests, Diseases and Illnesses
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Patt Morrison Asks: Alice Waters
Little bistro, huge impact. Like a different sort of miracle of the five loaves and two fishes, Chez Panisse, the landmark Berkeley restaurant, and its founder and guiding spirit, Alice Waters, have leveraged a small temple of slow, local and organic food...Tags: Charles, Prince of Wales, Energy Saving, Michelin Group, Dining and Drinking, Politics
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Gaming preview 2012: From PlayStation Vita to 'Halo 4'
CNNGaming in 2012 is going to be a very wild ride, with the introduction of two new consoles, a return to the "Halo" universe and the potential for even more entertainment choices. The PlayStation Vita and the Nintendo Wii U are both expected to hit the...Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS, Wii, Companies and Corporations
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5 gadget trends to watch at CES
CNNLike a stereotypical beauty pageant, it looks like thin will be in at the world's largest annual gadget convention next week in Las Vegas. At the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show, computer makers will be pushing a new breed of ultra-thin,...Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, Electronics, Microsoft Corporation, Amazon Kindle Fire, Google Inc.
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