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 Food Information - January 9, 2009
| As of late, many Chinese restaurants have witnessed their best business occur during the holidays. Stanley Wong. Whose family has owned the Kowloon restaurant in Saugus for over fifty years, says, "As the years went on, we became busier and busier during the holidays | | Cereals, breads and other products containing whole or milled barley grain can now claim to reduce the risk of heart disease, U.S. health officials said Friday. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's ruling allows companies to immediately begin advertising the benefit on their product packages, which many food makers hope will help boost consumer sales. To qualify, barley-containing foods must provide at least 0.75 grams of soluble fiber per serving, the agency said | | Diamond Pet Food is recalling Diamond, Country Value and Professional brand dog and cat foods after discovering aflatoxin in a product manufactured at a facility in Gaston, South Carolina. Aflatoxin is a naturally occurring toxic chemical byproduct of mold, which can cause illness in pets | | Researchers have discovered intake of magnesium through diet and supplements is positively associated with bone density throughout the whole body similar to the positive effects of calcium. The findings which reign true particularly in older white adults for those who ingested more magnesium had significantly higher bone density than those who got the smallest amount of magnesium | | The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves a new drug to treat kidney cancer. The drug Nexavar, made by German drugmaker Bayer AG and Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc., can help curb the size and number of tumors in the most common form of kidney cancer, but has yet to make an impact on the length of life of the patients | |
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