At the end of last year, New York Times Magazine contributing editor Michael Pollan became a professor at UC Berkeley’s graduate school of journalism. Most famous for…
The World Health Organization, whose mission involves tackling the scourges of AIDS and Malaria, now spends its valuable time and resources fretting that people like to eat steak and drink…
Many public health professionals are shifting their focus from preventing the spread of contagious diseases to fretting about what’s on your dinner plate. The theme of this year’s annual meeting…
Once again the press has been duped by those animal-rights nuts in lab coats, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). This time around they’re criticizing high-protein diets…
It’s titled “The Smoke and Mirrors of Food Labeling,” but a more appropriate headline for an article in The New York Times Saturday business section would have been…
“This government has nothing better to do than counting the grams of fat in a hamburger?” Washington, D.C. City Councilman David Catania asked incredulously this morning. The Council’s Committee on…
USA Today reports that the biotechnology industry is working to make soybean products trans-fat-free, and lower in saturated fat. “Consumers may clamor” for these products, the paper notes.
“Greetings, fat people,” writes Jack Gordon in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. “It cannot have escaped your notice that you lately have been reclassified as not merely unsightly but…
After the California State Senate passed a menu labeling bill that used the language of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) word for word,…
