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Diet Television launches

Posted Nov 11th 2006 11:02AM by Nicole Weston
Filed under: Did you know?, Light Food, Health & Medical

Are you looking for a good resource on diets and dieting information? Diet Television, which is a website, unlike the name suggests, launched this week and it offers "unbiased opinions from experts and from people just like you" on more than 47 different diets. Best of all, the site is completely free.

It was founded by some of the executives from the online shopping site Bluefly who wanted to build a community where people could support each other and get access to nutritionists, fitness experts, technology gurus and human behavioral specialists. Perhaps most importantly, the creators of the site admit that with all the diet-knowledge that they themselves have accumulated, they don't have a favorite diet, so the user-oriented site has no agenda besides helping you get healthy, lose those holiday pounds, or just answer any random questions you might have about a given diet or food. To start out, try the diet finder to identify your best match based on your likes, dislikes and goals.

The site is only in the first phase of its launch right now and there is more to come starting in 2007, so take a look at what they have to offer, but don't forget to try it again for a send helping in a couple of months.

[Thanks, Elise!]

Food experts say public doesn't understand food safety

Posted Feb 22nd 2006 7:33PM by Nick Vagnoni
Filed under: British Isles, Science, Magazines, Trends

The public worries too much about mad cow disease and the dangers of GMOs and not enough about bacteria-related hazards (E. coli, right), according to a study published in the Journal of Food Safety. The study surveyed 143 food safety experts in Ireland to gauge their opinions about the public's understanding of food safety issues. According to an abstract of the study, experts had little confidence in the general population's ability to understand and assess food risks and process scientific information. Many of the experts surveyed also felt hesitant about speaking in uncertain terms, even when necessary, for fear that the public isn't able to cope with uncertainties. Others wished they had better guidelines on how to communicate with the media.

[Via FoodConsumer.org (note: there seems to be a discrepancy between FoodConsumer's number of experts involved and that of the abstract.)]

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