Healthy Foods May Mean Healthier Stock Prices
Buying better-for-you foods won't just improve your diet. It'll juice the economy, too.
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Buying better-for-you foods won't just improve your diet. It'll juice the economy, too.
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Adopting a new system with Calorie Credits and measuring Calorie Footprints will speed the growth of better-for-you food and drink brands.
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When Miller Lite convinced men that a less filling beer was still macho, it became clear that lower-calorie, healthier offerings made sense.
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At the Partnership for a Healthier America Summit, speakers argued that fighting obesity can be good for consumers and the bottom line
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A new report from the Hudson Institute finally proves that packaged food and beverage companies that sell better-for-you products enjoy greater sales increases and returns
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This week, the two companies adopted new tactics that could indicate a turning point in how the food industry fights fat
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The congressman's budget plan might not be a good way to tackle the federal deficit, but his approach could help solve one of our biggest public health problems
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Luring supermarkets to low-income communities is difficult—so why not bus low-income communities to the food?
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An expert cruises through supermarkets to see whether they really have started marketing more "better-for-you" foods
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A New York politician wants to ban Happy Meal-style fast food meals—but the measure wouldn't make us healthy
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Three ways that American processed food manufacturers can avoid being toppled by hungry, angry consumers
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By pushing produce and healthier foods, Walmart's "cuddle capitalism" could slim us down and bloat the company's profits
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Proponents of candy bans shouldn't forget bathtub gin and speakeasies—the ancestors of today's junk-food black market
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A former food executive attends a meeting of the American Public Health Association and is reminded that CEOs and professors need to fight fat—not each other
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A former food industry executive argues that to slim down America, we have to turn food marketers into allies. Here's how.
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Targeting specific products won't promote public health. Instead, we should be capping total calories.
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An industry insider explains why the key to slimming America down isn't attacking food marketers. In fact, it's the reverse.
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If restaurants, grocers, and academics can't stop obesity, can we do it ourselves? The reasons people usually fail.
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Explaining the deadlock between the Retail Right (restaurants and grocers) and academia's Food Left
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Grocers worry most about day-to-day operations—and profit margins are razor-thin. Inside a pro-obesity mindset.
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