WIBX 950 » nutrition http://wibx950.com Your News Talk and Sports Leader Sat, 25 May 2013 20:20:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 10 Food Myths You Probably Believe http://wibx950.com/10-food-myths-you-probably-believe/ http://wibx950.com/10-food-myths-you-probably-believe/#comments Fri, 02 Nov 2012 13:00:22 +0000 Ruth Waxman http://thefw.com/?p=138529 All too often we get carried away believing (or worse, repeating) everything we are told and don't spend enough time questioning what's actually been said. We've picked 10 very common health mantras you hear everyday and weeded out the worst of the lies, because we want you to eat all the avocados. All of them.

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]]> http://wibx950.com/10-food-myths-you-probably-believe/feed/ 0 Flickr, Thinkstock, Tumblr US Government Mandates Fast Food Nutrition Labeling http://wibx950.com/us-government-mandates-fast-food-nutrition-labeling/ http://wibx950.com/us-government-mandates-fast-food-nutrition-labeling/#comments Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:54:05 +0000 WIBX AM 950 http://wibx950.com/?p=16883 In an effort to help people make more informed choices when eating away from home, the federal government is introducing mandatory nutrition labeling for fast food menus and vending machines.

Items sold at movie theaters are exempt, which is odd given what calorie bombs those snacks can be.

The problem is that few Americans pay much attention to the nutrition labeling on even the packaged foods brought into their homes.

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