U.N. Warns Food Shortage Will Continue Up To 2010 AHN London, England - United Nations World Food Program (WFP) head Josette Sheeran warns that the agency is already taking precautionary measures by rationing food aid to address worldwide food shortage and the increasing commodity prices which is ex...

U.N. Warns Food Shortage Will Continue Up To 2010 AHN London, England - United Nations World Food Program (WFP) head Josette Sheeran warns that the agency is already taking precautionary measures by rationing food aid to address worldwide food shortage and the increasing commodity prices which is ex...

One of the craziest stories I heard while I was in Finland was the shocking tale of the 1999 school lunch reform. The way this worked is that in 1999, parliament passed some legislation guaranteeing a nutritionally balanced school lunch. So the National Nutrition Council wrote some guidelines dictat...

Ezra Klein has an interesting post primarily focused on the disappointing results of trying to subsidize fruit and vegetable consumption: Diansheng Dong and Biing Hwan-Lin recently conducted a study for the USDA’s economic research service modeling the likely impact of a 10 percent discount on...

I don’t think people talk enough about public health issues in the policy realm, so I’m resolved to start following news like this even if it doesn’t have a clear policy upshot: Smokers are three times more likely to quit if they get a wake-up call in the form of a heart attack, st...

Bree Shirvell graduated in May 2008 from George Washington University with a degree in political science in journalism. She is currently a freelance writer in New York, and has wrote for La Cucina Italiana, OZOlife, ToTheCenter, and PG Media. As if eating right wasn’t hard enough, a new study ...

This article is also accessible on the Harvard School of Public Health’s blog Health and Human Rights . In 1995, after producing a successful weekly TV program about apartheid in South Africa against all odds, we broadcast an edition of a new series that explored revolutionary ideas about huma...

The other day I wrote a not-very-popular post making the point that a higher tax on alcohol would be a boon to public health and crime control, a way of raising some revenue that would provide a net boost to the economy rather than a drag like an income tax. Thinking more about this, it’s wort...

octo mom. she already has 6 kids. there is no dad involved. she lives with her parents. the mother in california who gave birth to eight babies on monday has six children already, cbs news discovered. today on the early show, a segment on the now-doubled family aired. they took cameras to the home a...

Results of a study conducted in the Asia-Pacific region suggest that men with COPD are more likely to die or be hospitalized than women with COPD. COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, is a progressive disease that makes it hard to breathe. COPD can cause coughing that produces large amoun...