La Belgique veut taxer les sucreries et les aliments très gras
« Selon une étude menée par l’Université de Gand, une taxe de 10 % permettrait l’économie de 2,2 milliards d’euros. Néanmoins, la Fevia (Fédération de l’Industrie Alimentaire) montre son opposition et estime qu’une telle taxe ne serait pas une solution pour lutter contre l’obésité puisqu’elle ne permet aucune démarche de sensibilisation des consommateurs à un mode […]
When Eating Dairy Was a Life-or-Death Question
Perforated pottery shards sat alongside cattle bones at the Polish dig site. There archaeologists collected fragments from bowls, cooking pots, and flasks and brought them back to the United Kingdom. At his lab at the University of Bristol, Richard Evershed discovered something on the unglazed clay: the oldest evidence of milk-fat residues on the continent. The farmers, […]
Food Traceability: A Comparison between the European Union, China and North America
The objective of this paper is to investigate recent findings on consumer knowledge and attitudes towards food traceability across the European Union (EU), China, and North America. A critical review of academic articles published between 2003 and 2013 was performed and a total of sixteen studies were selected. Results indicated that consumers are paying increasingly […]
The saturated-fat hunt is over
It’s time to rehabilitate dairy fat! For over 30 years, nutritional recommendations have focused on Saturated Fatty Acids (SFA), implicating them in cardiovascular disease (CVD) and sometimes even the “obesity epidemic”. The implied corollary to nutritional recommendations was of course: “Dairy products contain SFAs, so we should eat less of them, or eat lower-fat versions”. […]
Best Of Milk
MILK Global production of cow’s milk is approaching 637 billion liters per year. In France, it is around 24 billion liters per year, i.e. 4% of global production. Whether consumed in its natural state or in the form of yogurts, cheeses or other dairy products, milk is an essential component of our diet. Because of its exceptional nutritional […]
