Adults should consume less than 2,000mg of sodium, or 5g of salt, and at least 3,510mg of potassium per day, according to new guidelines issued by the World Health Organization.

Economists monitoring the beverage industry’s promise to get sodas and many other sugary drinks out of schools found that companies shipped 90% fewer calories to schools in 2010, compared with 2004.

Junk food may soon be hard to buy at American public schools, as the U.S. government readies new rules requiring healthier foods to be sold beyond the cafeteria -- a move most parents support, according to a poll.

The average American’s diet meets most of the nutritional guidelines recommended in the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture’s MyPlate only seven days out of a full year, according to a new analysis from The NPD Group.

Only one in four children’s cereals would meet the voluntary nutritional guidelines proposed by the federal Interagency Working Group on Food Marketed to Children, according to a review of popular brands conducted by the Environmental Working Group (EWG).

The nation's largest food companies say they will cut back on marketing unhealthier foods to children, proposing their own set of advertising standards after rejecting similar guidelines proposed by the federal government.

Among consumers, sodium has earned a bad, although somewhat undeserved, reputation. In fact, sodium is a crucial mineral in a multitude of metabolic processes.

USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has issued a 19-page draft of guidelines to help small and very small meat and poultry manufacturers reduce bacterial contamination in ready-to-eat (RTE) foods.