Ashrita Furman is fifty-six years old and a vegetarian who manages a health-food store.

VOA: special.2011.05.16

Yet spoiled food not only creates health risks but also economic losses.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

We were always trying to make it; health care was an issue, buying food,the basic needs to care for her children,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

"More challenges must still be addressed before the returnees enjoy the same conditions as other Mauritanian citizens, including deficiencies in health, education,water,and food security,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

pledging to improve access to health care while lowering food and fuel prices.

VOA: standard.2009.07.19

But Nicholas Minot at the International Food Policy Research Institute notes that these countries have relatively well-established regulatory systems to oversee livestock health, meat processing and food safety.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

Dietitians and health experts say understanding how important our food choices are, and learning a lesson or two from the world's healthiest nations, can help us live healthier,too.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

Jorgen Schlundt, head of food safety at the World Health Organization.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

The Copenhagen meeting drew about , 2,000 scientists from around the world, and the news they delivered was not encouraging as they warned of an increasingly warmer world with more frequent droughts, and food and health problems.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

But,she warns this progress is fragile. She says the momentum for health development could come to a grinding halt because of problems stemming from the food and financial crises, the changing climate and the H1N1 influenza pandemic.

VOA: standard.2009.12.29