Epogee recently published a white paper offering an exciting solution to the growing obesity epidemic.

Public Health England (PHE), an executive agency of the United Kingdom’s Department of Health, last week released guidelines for sweets manufacturers to cut sugar levels by 20 percent over the next three years. 

We often equate January with the start of diet season. The past two months of overindulging are now behind us, and it’s time to be responsible eaters again.

No, this isn’t a National Enquirer headline meant to trick you into reading my column. Listen, no aliens were hurt or involved in writing this column.

A new Wall Street Journal /NBC News poll asked Americans to pick the most harmful among four substances, and more people chose sugar than marijuana!

Boasting before-and-after pictures of dieters, fad-diet marketers often make sweeping promises that tell followers they will “lose weight fast.” 

Happy New Year! January marks the unofficial “official” start of the diet season. The pressure of New Year’s resolutions, coupled with added weight (and guilt) from overindulging over the holiday season, seems to send the nation into a dieting frenzy year after year. 

Changes in food-safety regulations aren’t just limited to the U.S. I recently took part in an international food-safety meeting in China, during which representatives from 19 nations talked about changes underway in food-safety regulations in their respective countries. 

What can bakers do to improve the health of Hispanics? Plenty, and they should do it quickly. Why the urgency? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Latinos—males and females of all ages—have among the highest obesity rates in the United States.