Tag: food

SINGAPORE (Reuters Life!) - Never mind slow food. Lonely Planet's travel guidebook "Best in Travel 2009" lists the global communities cultivating and preserving old food.

Many women have questions about the types of food that are safe to eat during pregnancy. It is actually easier to discuss the types of foods you should avoid during pregnancy than it is do discuss the foods that are safe to eat.

There's a lot of food to avoid during pregnancy because they may be harmful to you or your developing baby.

Set guidelines for lifelong healthy eating, from toddlers to teens.

During the first few years of life, it's vital to meet a child's nutritional needs in order to ensure proper growth and also to establish a lifelong habit of healthy eating.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Inflation ate deeply into U.S. consumer spending in the third quarter, doing more harm to the economy than either slumping car sales or housing, but recent commodity price falls may support growth going forward.

This does not mean that the U.S. economy is stronger than it looks. The gross domestic product shrank by 0.3 percent between July and September, according to annualized data released on Thursday, and many economists predict a recession lasting until mid-2009.

Swapping fried and salty foods for fruit and veg could cut a third of the heart attack risk around the world, work suggests.

World stock markets may have plunged, economies are slowing and bankers have lost their jobs, but consumers' appetite for Cadbury chocolate, a Peroni beer or Johnnie Walker whisky is undiminished for now at least.

As three of Europe's biggest food and drink groups reported resilient trading in the July-September quarter, analysts say that slower global growth will eventually hit these traditionally defensive sector pushing investors toward the biggest and safest bets.