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FDA Warns Coke About Illegal Health Claims

What you can do: Don’t look for nutrients in diet soda; get it from whole foods—especially high-fiber, filling ones—instead.

Five Ways Grocery Stores Try to Trick You

What you can do: Buy most of your organic produce from farmer’s markets and CSA programs.

Wake-Up Call: The Food Industry Is Making You Fat

What you can do: Recognize the cues that tempt you to eat so that it’s easier to fight back against marketing tricks.

Slideshow: 6 Things Food-Industry Execs Aren’t Telling You

What you can do: Make food decisions that are healthy for you and also send a message to food marketers.

5 Ways Food Labels Try to Fool You

What you can do: Learn to separate the reliable, independently verified labels from marketing hype.

Denny’s Restaurant Chain Socked with Salt Lawsuit

What you can do: Sidestep salt and stick with heart-healthy menu items, fruits and vegetables, and Internet tools that keep you salt-savy.

Debate over Sugar Tax Heats Up

What you can do: Tax or no tax, if you want to lose weight and cut your risk of developing chronic disease, ditch the soda and reach for filtered tap water.

Take Home the Best Thanksgiving Turkey

What you can do: Stick to certified-organic birds, or look out for these misleading labels on nonorganic turkeys.

Guide to Buying Grass-Fed Beef

What you can do: Learn which terms and labels on beef are meaningful—and which ones aren't.

Michelle Obama to Food Makers (Politely): Stop Fattening Our Children

What you can do: Read food lables with a cautious eye; ask the school for healthier meals; give kids ways to exercise instead of staring at the TV screen.