Archive: Nov 2010 (page2)

The Twinkie Diet

You’ve probably read our position before that there are no “good” and “bad” foods—a point backed up by the American Dietetic Association, which represents 70,000 nutrition professionals. Americans received…
PostedNovember 10, 2010 at12:00 am

New York City Passes the Salt with Another Ad Campaign

(click to enlarge) When we last checked in with New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley, he was conspiring to cover up the…
PostedNovember 9, 2010 at12:00 am

Skinny Kids Eat Pizza Too

Exhaustive research has shown that obesity is a complex problem with many factors and causes. Why, then, do the nutrition nannies continually blame target foods that they have deemed…
PostedNovember 8, 2010 at12:00 am

Someone Book Michelle Obama a Flight to Denver

Michelle Obama is the nation’s most ardent obesity nanny-in-chief. On the heels of her personal anti-obesity campaigning and finger-wagging, the White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity released…
PostedNovember 5, 2010 at12:00 am

Marion Nestle Runs a Red Light on Common Sense

Two food industry groups recently announced that they’re developing a new front-of-package nutrition labeling system for food products. Naturally, that isn’t enough for the food cops. Last week,…
PostedNovember 4, 2010 at12:00 am

The San Fran Happy Meal Ban

San Francisco’s proposed Happy Meal toy prohibition had been up in the air for a couple weeks. To his eternal credit, SFO Mayor (and now Lieutenant Governor-Elect) Gavin Newsom …
PostedNovember 3, 2010 at12:00 am

Got Hysteria? PCRM Declares Milk a Junk Food

The “Physicians Committee” for “Responsible Medicine” (PCRM) is neither a physicians group, nor responsible, nor interested in medicine. (They do seem to be a committee.) So while PCRM claims to be…
PostedNovember 1, 2010 at12:00 am