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Walmart to Label Healthy Foods
As part of its promise last year to improve the nutritional quality of the food it sells, Walmart has devised standards to determine what is healthy and would label the foods that meet those standards.
The New York Times, February 2012

Help yourself to ‘Big Food’ at the Peabody Museum at Yale
The newest exhibition at the Peabody Museum at Yale invites visitors not only to learn what their food does to them, but also to see first-hand our origins as hunter-gatherers, as well as explore an interactive time line about food’s varied history, and to get a look at popular processed foods identified only by their ingredients.
New Haven Register, February 2012

Should Sugar Be Regulated like Alcohol and Tobacco?
Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco, argue that sugar is toxic and needs to be taxed and controlled. Why it's so hard to break our addiction.
Time Magazine, February 2012

Blacks More Likely to Eat Unhealthy Cereals
Black and Hispanic families are more likely to buy unhealthy, highly-advertised cereals than those with no marketing.
The Grio, January 2012

Minorities Tend Toward Unhealthy Cereal
African-American homes with children are more likely to buy unhealthy youth-oriented cereals than any other demographic group, according to a Rudd Center study.
Yale Daily News, January 2012

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