Category: Food, Beverages & Diet

Mark Bittman says, “But food provides nourishment, and soda doesn’t.” So carbohydrates aren’t nourishment? That would be news to my metabolism. Continue reading NYTimes food twit attacks celebs for advertising soda

Multi-billion dollar-costing regulatory overkill that will accomplish little. Wash and properly cook food that you purchase from trusted manufacturers and vendors. Continue reading Nonsense: F.D.A. Offers Broad New Rules to Fight Food Contamination

Don’t sweat the love handles and more! Continue reading New JAMA: Love handles lengthen lifespan

Ah, so maybe its not the french fries in Happy Meals after all? Continue reading Fukushima radiation fears are linked to increase in obesity among children

“The FDA, not known for its sense of humor, is planning a full-fledged probe into the product.” [Weekly Standard]

“A new American Cancer Society study finds a strong inverse association between caffeinated coffee intake and oral/pharyngeal cancer mortality. The authors say people who drank more than four cups of caffeinated coffee per day were at about half the risk of death of these often fatal cancers compared to those who only occasionally or who never drank coffee.” [EurekAlert]

Please sir, I want some more. [AP]

Take that, food nannies. [MyFoxDC.com]

“A world-leading ‘fat tax’ has been abolished in Denmark, with the country admitting the controversial attempt at engineering a healthier populace has failed. A planned tax on some high-sugar foods has also been abandoned, marking a setback for advocates of this method of encouraging health.

According to the Danish Ministry of Taxation the country’s tax on unhealthy, high-fat products had driven up prices and put jobs at risk…” [Nature]

Gary Taubes pens a screed against sugar in Mother Jones. But in the end, low-carb crusader Taubes is forced to admit “the sugar industry may be facing the inexorable exposure of its product as a killer — science will ultimately settle the matter one way or the other.” [Emphasis added]

So Gary, if science isn’t settled as you plainly admit, how did the sugar industry err in defending itself?

While atherosclerosis may lead to heart problems, there is no scientific evidence that what you eat has anything to do with it or any associated heart problems. Continue reading Egg McMugged: 'Breakfast sandwich is a time bomb in a bun'

“A Harvard-affiliated hospital is backing away from its decision earlier this week to promote a paper linking the artificial sweetener aspartame and cancer, now saying the evidence was ‘weak.'” [Reuters]