Category: Food, Beverages & Diet

Flexitarianism? Continue reading Bittman: We’re Eating Less Meat. Why?

No doubt this junk study will be used in efforts to enact soda taxes during 2012. Continue reading Soda Tax Could Save Lives?

Still the FDA tries dancing around activist sensitivities. Continue reading FDA on Food Coloring: It’s the Kids Not the Chemicals

“The Salt Institute says 2011 was a year of vindication for salt as half a dozen medical studies showed health benefits of salt or revealed significant risks of low-sodium diets.” Continue reading Biggest Health & Nutrition Story of 2011: Salt Vindicated

Letters to the editor in the Journal of the American Medical Association point out that a recent reexamination of the NHANES III data does not support a general recommendation for reducing sodim intake. Continue reading Still no evidence for general sodium reduction

Did the food police cause 77 people to become ill from consuming Nestle ready-to-bake cookie dough in 2009? Continue reading Food police cause food poisoning?

Only 44% of children’s hospitals offered “low cal” salad dressing, while 81% offered cookies. Quelle horreur! Continue reading Food nannies want to torture kids in hospitals with ‘healthy’ food

That’s what the Obama administration says. The American Beverage Association begs to differ. Continue reading Energy drinks a public health problem?

What’s the “worst” food for avoiding colon cancer? Continue reading CSPI Quackery: Preventing colon cancer (Part 3)

What’s the “second best” food to prevent colon cancer? Continue reading CSPI Quackery: Preventing colon cancer (Part 2)

What’s the best food to prevent colon cancer? Continue reading CSPI Quackery: Preventing colon cancer (Part 1)