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'Great For You' Icon Launched By Walmart:
After a year of promising a new "front of the pack" label that will help customers distinguish between healthy and unhealthy foods, Walmart, the nation's largest super-market chain, has followed through with an easy way for shoppers to find healthier, more nutritious options - the 'Great For You' icon. The label, 'Great For You' will be placed on the front of various food products, urging customers to go for the healthy option, rather than the foods without the 'Great For You' icon... [ Read about 'Great For You' Icon Launched By Walmart]

How To Give Up Smoking:
"It's easy to quit smoking; I've done it hundreds of times." -- Mark Twain There are many different ways to quit smoking. Some experts advocate using pharmacological products to help wean you off nicotine, others say all you need is a good counselor and support group, or an organized program. To add to the confusion, you may find there is a study that says this way works better than that one, and then when you look again, you find there is another study that says, no, that one works better than this one. But one thing most experts agree on is that a combination works best... [ Read about How To Give Up Smoking]

More Salt In US Diet Comes From Bread And Rolls, Not Salty Snacks:
More salt in the average US diet comes bread and rolls and not from salty snacks like potato chips, pretzels and popcorn, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released this week. Although salty snacks taste saltier, and weight for weight they contain more sodium than bread and rolls, because the average American consumes more bread and rolls every day than salty snacks, bread consumption contributes more to sodium intake... [ Read about More Salt In US Diet Comes From Bread And Rolls, Not Salty Snacks]