Category: Food, Beverages & Diet

The ban does not apply to alcoholic beverages… Continue reading NYC soda ban takes effect soon; You can buy a 20 oz. beer, but not a 20 oz. soda!

This from the cellulosic ethanol pirate… such a con. Continue reading Pot, Kettle: Vinod Khosla says sugar industry lies

“A very courageous fifth teacher in the Chicago Public Schools has written a scathing critique of the almost comical misery she and her students endured when they participated in a massive February 28 event kicking off Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! Active Schools campaign.” Continue reading Let’s starve! Kids forced to go hungry for hours during Michelle Obama media event

Gotta love a business model that prioritizes mythical risks from pesticides over real risks of bacteria. Continue reading Food Poisoning: Organic greens (again)

Time to throw the World Bank into the ash heap of history as another hopelessly corrupt and failed Communist-organized disaster. Continue reading World Bank agitates on obesity?

The Columbia Journalism Review says “covering government efforts to improve the nation’s eating habits is more complicated than it seems.” Continue reading Policing the food police (part 1): The assault on salt

Phew… I thought it was BPA. Continue reading Study: American women overweight because they don’t vacuum, iron

Michelle Obama says in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that Wal-Mart has made children healthier by reducing the sugar-content of its products by 10%. What children were unhealthy because of sugar at Wal-Mart? Continue reading Michelle Obama: The government-business complex is here to make your kids healthier

Though Mark Bittman clearly disagrees, Robert Lustig’s new study supposedly “proving” that sugar intake increases diabetes risk, is as credible as Ancel Keys’ debunked 1953 ecological study of the diet-heart hypothesis. Continue reading NYTimes Food Nanny: ‘Sugar is indeed toxic’

“Our kids are suffering in a very real and alarming way from adult disease at alarming rates” — show me. Continue reading Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move campaign cranks up again

Students are free to pick from what the nannies make available to eat. Continue reading New Food Nanny Concept: ‘Libertarian Paternalism’

Nonsense. 350 pregnancies over 6 years. Gestation is complex. Much of the data are self-reported. The result is clinically insignificant anyway — e.g., 2.9 day longer average gestation in treated group. Continue reading Magical Supplement: Prenatal DHA reduces early preterm birth, low birth weight