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| 11/19/09 |
A Godzilla of Corny Hype
It never takes much for the food scolds at Center for Science in the Public Interest to rev-up one of their stale diet-nanny crusades. Today, CSPI is breathlessly telling media outlets about its shocking, shocking...
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| 11/18/09 |
Toss Out the Myths With the Embalming Fluid
Activists like journalism professor Michael Pollan are quick to blame foods in our “Western diet” for a smorgasbord of problems -- heart disease being the most recent one. But a new investigation stuffs this foodie...
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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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| 11/2/09 |
Lawyer Math: 1 + 1 = Prop. 65
Today the Los Angeles Times published a point-counterpoint smackdown between two lawyers on opposing sides of California’s notorious Proposition 65 law, the source of the Golden State’s warning label hysteria. For the past 23 years,...
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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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| 10/20/09 |
Quote of the Week
The New York Times reported last week that Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is investigating food companies’ use of labels on breakfast cereals and other products. The usual suspects have piled on: Marion Nestle has...
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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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| 10/15/09 |
CSPI’s Latest Dietary Flip-Flop
With Halloween right around the corner, the killjoys at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) built the scary atmosphere last week by releasing a report on the top 10 “riskiest” foods. And...
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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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| 10/12/09 |
Doubling Down on L.A. Zoning Bans
We told you last week about a study from the California-based RAND Corporation which found that the fast food zoning ban in South Los Angeles was based on questionable premises. The July 2008 ban, which prohibited...
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| 10/9/09 |
Labeling a Failure
Dare we say “Told you so”? Because that’s the sentiment we have after a comprehensive study released this week shows that calorie labeling in New York City did not result in people eating fewer calories....
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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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| 9/29/09 |
CCF Special: Ad Launch Tackles Not-So-Sweet Myths
While you were enjoying your morning latte today, we launched a new million-dollar ad campaign designed to put an end to the ridiculous fear mongering surrounding high fructose corn syrup. We’ll be communicating to the...
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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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| 9/23/09 |
Hizzoner’s Nanny Culture, With a Grain of Salt
The New York Times reports today that Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been caught “salt-handed.” Despite targeting sodium in his latest nanny-state crusade, the mayor privately enjoys pouring it on by the shaker-load:
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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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