Category: Food, Beverages & Diet

“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]

“Soft-drink makers, restaurateurs and other businesses are suing to block the city’s move to end the sale of super-sized, sugary drinks in many eateries.” [NBC]

In cancer-prone mice, that is. Continue reading Caffeine and exercise may be protective against skin cancer caused by sun exposure

We can assure you that vegetables do not convey magical disease fighting powers to their consumers. Continue reading Cruciferous vegetable consumption linked to improved breast cancer survival rates?

Obesity is not a disease. Continue reading BMI attacked — for underestimating obesity