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Food and beverage companies with a greater percentage of sales from so-called “better-for-you” products do better, financially, than their peers with less healthful fare, a new report finds.

The report is from the Hudson Institute and was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. It looked at financial figures from 15 large food and drink companies between 2007 and 2011.

A few months back, the USDA announced it had scrapped the famous food pyramid and replaced it with a plate as a way of conceptualizing the government’s advice on diet.

As will happen with this kind of thing, myplate.gov won praise but also some criticism.

To address some perceived flaws, experts from the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Health Publications have unveiled their own iteration of the new icon, which they’re calling the Healthy Eating Plate.

Bill Clinton’s hamburger days are behind him, he says.

The former president now thinks of himself as a vegan, he tells CNN’s Sanjay Gupta, eschewing meat, dairy and eggs. (No word on whether he’s traded recipes with fellow Democrat and vegan Dennis Kucinich.)

The Health Blog has heard lots of anecdotal evidence about the effects of the kind of menu-labeling law that took effect in New York a few years back (and will go national under the health-care overhaul law). People tell us they never realized how many calories were in their daily Starbucks scone or Cosi sandwich until they saw the number posted in black and white.

Maybe it’s because dinner is only an hour away, but some of the winners of the Center for Science in the Public Interest’s annual Xtreme Eating Awards actually sound pretty good.

Take the Denny’s Fried Cheese Melt, for example. Four fried mozzarella sticks and melted American cheese on sourdough, plus a side of fries, would go down fairly easy right now, especially with a Cold Stone Creamery PB&C (for peanut butter and chocolate) shake as a chaser.

Okay, it may not seem like a huge shock that consuming more potato chips, fries or sugary drinks over the years is associated with weight gain, as a new study finds.

On the heels of the latest ranking of diet programs by Consumer Reports, U.S. News & World Report has come out with the inaugural edition of its own diet rankings.

The food pyramid is dead. Long live the plate!

The USDA today announced the latest attempt to conceptualize the government’s dietary advice in a way consumers can understand. (The pyramid was widely regarded as confusing, if not incomprehensible.)

A group of Philadelphia nuns wants McDonald’s to examine its own “policy response” to obesity and other diet-related diseases in kids.

That’s the McNugget unearthed by footnoted.com from the fast food company’s preliminary proxy statement. Proposal No. 11 is offered by the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia, leading a coalition of other orders and Catholic institutions. (The Sisters of St. Francis own at least $2,000 of McDonald’s common stock, according to the proposal.)

The proposed resolution:

You can get information on calories and grams of protein, carbs and fat, but the actual composition of the food is harder to come by

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