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| 11/20/09 |
A Not-So-Sweet Marketing Gimmick
Phil Lempert, self-described supermarket “guru,” has a new video touting, among other things, the fact that Necco Wafers are made without high fructose corn syrup:
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| 11/16/09 |
Just “Say No” to Bogus Health Tips
There’s a lot of spurious scaremongering being passed around as fact (see CSPI), but sometimes one claim really sticks out. That’s the case with a health column in yesterday’s Star Tribune, in which readers are...
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| 11/9/09 |
OJ with Breakfast? Repent!
America’s self-anointed food police have a new punching bag in their obesity crusade: fruit juice. We’re not making this up. The Los Angeles Times reported yesterday that a growing number of dietary do-gooders are now...
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| 11/6/09 |
Soda Scam Goes Hollywood
The food finger-waggers were out in full force in Los Angeles yesterday. At a committee hearing more akin to a three-ring circus, state senators “explored” a supposed link between sugar-sweetened beverages and obesity. The hearing,...
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| 10/27/09 |
Crushing Beverage Tax Proposals
Today, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution features us in a pro-con debate about whether health policy should include a sugar-sweetened beverage tax. The “pro” side is represented by an Emory University professor who argues that not only...
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| 10/21/09 |
The Empire State Strikes Back?
The New York Daily News reported yesterday that, just in time for Halloween, Governor David Paterson pledged to raise his sugar-sweetened beverage tax from the dead. And dead it is. Even the Governor acknowledges the...
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| 10/16/09 |
Another Big Sham in the Big Apple
With all their public awareness campaigns, you’d think the anti-fat warriors in New York City’s government could keep their so-called “good” and “bad” foods straight. But as the New York Post reported on Tuesday, the...
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| 10/13/09 |
Food Cops’ Obesity Message is Off-Key
Ever wonder why more people don’t take the stairs—especially when so many people are trying to lose weight? An enterprising group in Sweden (an initiative of Volkswagon) had a theory that if activity is more...
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| 10/8/09 |
Start Spreadin’ the News: No New Soda Taxes
Our brawl with New York City’s dietary control freaks is drawing some serious attention. The city is spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to run anti-soft-drink subway ads depicting a soda turning into globs...
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| 10/7/09 |
Would You Take Dietary Advice From This Man? (Part Deux)
“Twinkie tax” creator Kelly Brownell has been on a years-long crusade against the dietary decisions of other Americans. Yesterday, he and fellow doom merchant David Ludwig wrote in the Los Angeles Times in favor of a soda tax, repeating the usual...
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| 9/28/09 |
When Nudge Turns to Shove
Mayor Michael Bloomberg isn’t alone in his New York City anti-salt crusade (even if he salts his own popcorn to extremes). Today, Crain’s New York Business profiles the man who has stepped into the role...
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| 9/25/09 |
NYC Is Pouring on the Guilt
If you thought Mayor Bloomberg’s salt antics were bad, the New York City nanny government is not to be outdone. The City Board of Health recently spent over $300,000 making subway posters that grotesquely attempt...
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| 9/21/09 |
Quote of the Week
We’ve covered a multitude of arguments against soda taxes. Speaking recently at the Rotary Club of Atlanta, Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent gave his own take (and perhaps the pithiest argument yet):
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| 9/17/09 |
Food Cops Issue Arrest Warrant for Soda
Last week, we reported that President Obama had endorsed the idea of “exploring” a federal tax on soda. Yesterday, the authors of a report published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) happily obliged...
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| 9/16/09 |
Fool Me Once...
You might remember Barry Popkin as one of the scientists who helped fuel a string of myths about high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). Popkin coauthored a study with George Bray in 2004 in which the...
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| 9/14/09 |
CCF in the News
The New York Daily News saw fit to quote us last week explaining how soda taxes lack any pop. Today, the publication gave us the opportunity to elaborate on our belief that lifestyle taxes on...
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| 9/9/09 |
Commander in Chief (of Vending Machines)
According to a national poll we commissioned last week from the Opinion Research Corporation, Americans don’t want more taxes on their soda. Two-thirds of Americans disagreed with the proposal that soda should carry extra taxes...
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| 9/8/09 |
Russell Crowe Puts the Pedal to the Metal
Oscar winner Russell Crowe isn’t one to take an insult lying down. When Australian newspaper columnist Annette Sharp criticized the actor for eating three tacos and a soda during a recent bike ride, Crowe responded...
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| 8/31/09 |
Taking On Soda Taxes
Self-anointed food cops like newly minted Centers for Disease Control & Prevention chief Thomas Frieden keep proposing soda and junk food taxes as “solutions” to curb the nation’s growing waistlines (or to fund healthcare legislation)....
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| 8/26/09 |
Feelings Versus Facts: The Sugar Chronicles
The American Heart Association (AHA) released guidelines on Monday about the amount of added sugar that Americans should consume. Unfortunately, this report is likely to contribute to the hysteria surrounding high fructose corn syrup. Most recently, the founder of an Indianapolis farmers market, who has...
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