Nutrition Guidance Program Helps Busy Shoppers to Easily Identify More Nutritious Foods
With rising obesity rates and many consumers reaching for easier-to-understand nutrition information, one Oklahoma grocery chain is looking to make a healthy change. According to The CalorieLab United States of Obesity Fattest States Ranking 2010, Oklahoma ranks in the top ten fattest states with 67 percent of Oklahomans considered obese or overweight by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention standards in 2009. To help encourage healthier choices, Homeland Stores is announcing a partnership with Guiding Stars to launch their good-better-best nutrition guidance program in their stores. With this system, customers in all 73 stores will be able to more easily choose healthy foods.
With Guiding Stars, each item throughout the grocery store receives a zero-to-three star rating according to its nutritional value, offering busy shoppers a simple, at-a-glance tool that helps them quickly identify foods that offer the most nutrition for the calories. Guiding Stars will be displayed prominently throughout Homeland, Country Mart, and United Supermarkets from shelf-tags, to signage and brochures, to help make nutritious shopping even easier…
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Sebasticook Valley Hospital (SVH) in Pittsfield, Maine to launch the first-ever hospital nutrition guidance program. Guiding Stars will rate prepared meals, snacks, and grab-and-go items according to their nutritional value in the hospital cafeteria and the food served to patients. Each item rated will receive zero to three stars for an at-a-glance summary of the food’s nutritional quality…
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Guiding Stars today announced a partnership with Wellness Layers, Inc., a leading provider of health-related online and mobile portals for consumers. Together, they will launch a two-phased program that will be the first integrated nutrition guidance program for consumers in stores and online. The new service will provide seamless guidance to food selection at the store coupled with integrated personalized nutrition management online…
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Guiding Stars, the world’s first store-wide nutrition guidance program today announces a partnership with Bud’s Shop ‘n Save to launch the good-better-best nutrition guidance program in their stores. Bud’s Shop ’n Save has three locations in central Maine including Dexter, Pittsfield and Newport.
In addition to the Guiding Stars kick-off at Bud’s Shop ‘n Save, Sebasticook Valley Hospital (SVH) has announced that it will become the first hospital in the nation to implement the Guiding Stars program this summer…
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Guiding Stars today announces a partnership with University of North Dakota (UND) in Grand Forks, ND. The good-better-best nutrition navigation system will launch in all of the school’s dining facilities and campus convenience stores beginning this fall…
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Guiding Stars announces a partnership with Bristol Shop ‘n Save in Bristol, New Hampshire, to launch the good-better-best nutrition rating system in the store.
With Guiding Stars, each item throughout the grocery store receives a zero-to-three star rating according to its nutritional value, offering busy shoppers a simple, at-a-glance tool that helps them quickly identify foods that offer the most nutrition for the calories…
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Guiding Stars announces a partnership with the schools of Regional School Unit (RSU) #14 Windham Raymond School District in Maine, by launching the good-better-best food rating system in the schools…
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