Monthly Archives: March 2015

REAL Certified Partners with Improvonia to Make REAL Food Purchasing Easy

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media contact: Eleni Papadopoulos, (704) 281-8484, [email protected] PR Web Announcement Washington, D.C. (PRWEB) March 25, 2015 Improvonia and the US Healthful Food Council (USHFC) announced… Read More →

Arming Consumers with the Tools to Demand REAL Food

Original article posted here Guest post by Lawrence Williams, Chairman of the Board - United States Healthful Food Council. The views expressed are solely those of the author and… Read More →

Food Facts

Up to ⅔ of people on diets regain more weight than they initially lost.

50% of the antibiotics administered in the United States go to animals.

7 out of 10 American adults and 3 out of 10 children are overweight.

Monthly Archives: March 2015

REAL Certified Partners with Improvonia to Make REAL Food Purchasing Easy

Up to ⅔ of people on diets regain more weight than they initially lost.

50% of the antibiotics administered in the United States go to animals.

7 out of 10 American adults and 3 out of 10 children are overweight.

1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry; 1 billion are overweight.

Organic farming can yield up to three times as much food as conventional farming on the same amount of land.

Children prefer the taste of carrots and milk if they think these items are from McDonald’s.

The average American consumes 1 cup of sugar per day, or approximately 180 lbs per year.

A typical fast food meal has fewer calories than the average sit-down restaurant meal.

Since 1980, the rate of obesity among U.S. children has tripled.

Organic fruits and vegetables show higher levels of antioxidants than conventionally grown foods.

The average American consumes ⅓ of their calories at a restaurant.

Struggling to eat well when eating out?

Monthly Archives: March 2015