American Diabetes Association posts healthy tips for breakfast on the run in Double-shot, Skinny Breakfast -- No Whip as part of a recent e-newsletter broadcast to thousands. These tips are excerpted from Warshaw's new and improved 4th ed of Guide to Healthy Restaurant Eating.

There’s no shortage of nutrition advice—that’s for sure! The near daily headlines encouraging you to eat more of this and less of that, to advertisements that promote more dietary supplements to prevent or cure myriad medical conditions are enough to make your head spin and make it a challenge to separate fact from fiction when it comes to nutrition and healthy eating.

Yesterday (12/17/08) the U.S. FDA sent a "No Objection Letter" to Merisant's Whole Earth Sweetener company and to Cargill, Inc., responding to their long awaited request to market a highly purified form of Stevia known as Reb A (rebaudioside A). Translated this letter means that FDA has no objection to the conclusion that both companies reached independently using the GRAS self-affirmation process: that Reb A is generally recognized as safe among qualified experts for use in beverages, foods and tabletop sweeteners.

Diabetic Living, a Better Homes and Gardens Special Interest magazine, makes Warshaw contributing editor for this quarterly diabetes consumer magazine beginning in Fall 2008. Read an article penned by Warshaw in this issue Log on to Take it Off.