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Nutrition Action Healthletter
October 1999 |
News From CSPI Watching sorbitol and mannitol in your children's diet... Avoiding the potassium bromate used in bread flour... Sales of Frito-Lay fake-fat chips down; consumers complain of adverse effects...   |
Reason
November 2003 |
Letters The Anti-Pleasure Principle... Cutting the Tripwire... Socialized Gambling... etc. |
Nutrition Action Healthletter
December 2000
Michael F. Jacobson |
News From CSPI Government health departments typically say that they care deeply about nutrition, but just don't have the money to encourage people to eat better. But they are overlooking one simple and sensible way to fund health campaigns: taxing junk foods... |
Food Processing
March 2006
David Joy |
Questionable new tactics from the Food Police The Center for Science in the Public Interest assumes incorrectly that there is no room in a healthy diet for enjoyable foods. And its "acceptable advertising" approach raises a few interesting questions. |
Science News
October 12, 2002
Janet Raloff |
FDA Launches Acrylamide Investigations Research efforts spawned by the discovery that acrylamide, a carcinogen, is formed in some foods like french fries and potato chips when they are cooked. |
Nutrition Action Healthletter
September 2000
Michael F. Jacobson |
News From CSPI We need your help. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has asked the public whether refined (added) sugars should be included on Nutrition Facts labels. You can bet that the food industry will try to kill sugar labeling... |
BusinessWeek
December 3, 2007
Eamon Javers |
Salt Could Soon Be on the Fed's Hit List The FDA is looking again at the role sodium plays in heart disease - and foodmakers are scrambling. |
Food Engineering
July 6, 2009 |
USDA urged to reverse Bush-era gag rule preventing criticism of soda Bush-era rules at USDA prohibit states from using federal nutrition education funds for discouraging soda consumption, and the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is urging Secretary Tom Vilsack to reverse them. |
Food Processing
December 2005
Leslie T. Krasny |
Regulatory Issues: Natural acrylamide in food faces FDA scrutiny Are warnings for acrylamide in foods informative, premature or preempted? |
Food Processing
May 2012
Diane Toops |
Much Ado About Caramel Coloring While science refutes the 4-MEI/caramel coloring-cancer connection, soda makers reformulate for California. |
Food Processing
July 2006
David Feder |
Editor's Plate: AMA not worth its salt It seems the American Medical Assn. has decided MDs know more about nutrition than nutrition scientists. They don't. It should focus its attention on issues it's supposed to know about -- like how to care for sick people. |
Nutrition Action Healthletter
October 2000
Michael F. Jacobson |
News From CSPI What happens when nutrition meets money? Consider: More and more "independent" professional organizations, researchers, and "consumer" groups receive funding from industry, something many fail to disclose when they talk to journalists... |
The Motley Fool
July 20, 2005
Rich Smith |
Coke, Pepsi Circle Wagons As an investor, it's worth weighing the likely consequences for companies like Coke and Pepsi, should CSPI's soda labeling proposals become law. |
Prepared Foods
April 1, 2006
Marcia A. Wade |
Fat Magic Cutting the fat from a food formula is not necessarily a problem when fat replacers, such as gums and starches, help recoup the functionality lost in those reduced- and low-fat products. |
Seasoned Cooking
September 2005
Michael Fick |
Should You Reduce Your Salt Intake? The Center for Science in the Public Interest says yes, but the Salt Institute offers a strong defense against it. Here are some sound bites from each side -- and several ways to reduce your sodium intake. |
Reason
June 2005
Jacob Sullum |
Suing Sodium A lawsuit filed in February demands that the FDA treat salt as an additive instead of an ingredient, a step that would make it possible to impose reductions in salt content on food manufacturers. But is it necessary from a health standpoint? |
Food Processing
June 2005
David Feder, R.D. |
Bad science slams salt Again this year, salt was slammed by both the USDA and the Center for Science in the Public Interest -- in reports that had all of the trappings of legitimate science, but little, if any, substance. |
| Nutrition Action Healthletter |
Safe Food 2000 Quiz A quiz on safe food preparation. Advice on food poisoning dangers, foods that are most likely to cause problems, recommended cooking temperatures, and people who are most susceptible to food poisoning. |
ifeminists
August 5, 2003
Tresa McBee |
Stay Out of My Cone Excess is inevitable when so much exists on demand and activity no longer determines who eats. Sometimes that's deadly, sometimes it's life-threatening. It's definitely lazy and absolutely unhealthy. It's also a choice. |
Science News
February 24, 2007
Janet Raloff |
Of Bamboo and French Fries A bamboo extract can limit the formation of a carcinogen in baked and fried foods. |
Science News
October 21, 2006
Janet Raloff |
A Salty Controversy over Sodium-and-Health Papers A public-interest group has raised a ruckus over salt-industry payments to the authors of a nutrition journal's package of articles on salt's influence on health. |
Nutrition Action Healthletter
April 2001
Michael F. Jacobson |
News From CSPI While premium ice creams like Haagen-Dazs are "85% fat-free," in the 1990s the FDA banned "fat-free" claims on foods that aren't low in fat. But under pressure from the meat industry, the USDA now wants to allow similar claims like "85% lean" on labels for fatty ground beef... |
Nutrition Action Healthletter
March 2002
Michael F. Jacobson |
News From CSPI It's getting ever easier to replace meat with more healthful alternatives... |
Nutrition Action Healthletter
December 2003 |
Right Stuff vs. Food Porn It's amazing what the threat of a lawsuit can do. While a highly publicized suit failed to hold McDonald's accountable for its patrons' obesity, the court action clearly caught the industry's attention. |
Nutrition Action Healthletter
December 1999 |
News From CSPI In the coming year, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), which publishes Nutrition Action Healthletter, will embark on a campaign to encourage Congress and the Administration to mount a major effort to improve the American diet. |
Food Engineering
September 16, 2008 |
Tech Flash Vol. 4 No. 12 Canada plagued by foodborne illness outbreaks... Cloning still banned in US, and now EU... Tyson expands operations in China... Does Stevia need more research?... US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency steps up worksite enforcement... etc. |
Chemistry World
December 5, 2007
Richard Van Noorden |
Acrylamide Cancer Link Confirmed A study has for the first time confirmed the proposed link between dietary intake of acrylamide and cancer -- five years after the suspected carcinogen was detected in cooked food. |
Food Engineering
June 28, 2009 |
Tech Flash Vol. 5 No. 12 -- Food Engineering's E-Newsletter IT innovations... PACK EXPO 2010... Appeals court upholds ban on genetically engineered alfalfa... Cookie dough recall... Soft drinks and health... |
Food Processing
April 2007
Leslie Krasny |
Wellness Foods' Regulatory Issues: It's a Natural The FDA has not been active in challenging "natural" claims for foods, although "warning" letters have been sent to manufacturers, particularly for the use of color additives in products bearing "natural" claims. |
Food Engineering
July 28, 2009 |
Tech Flash Vol. 5 No. 14 -- Food Engineering's E-Newsletter Manufacturers reveal cautious optimism... One step closer to healthy school snacks... Dairy integrates plant intelligence with ERP... Food Safety News... etc. |
Prepared Foods
April 1, 2005 |
New Product Trends: In The Know Food industry briefs: Willamette Valley Vineyards receives first label approval of antioxidant in wines... Should food companies market to female gamers?... Trans fats down for the count; is sodium next?... Company and personnel moves... |
Prepared Foods
March 7, 2007 |
Praising Trans Fats Distorting food issues can lead to bad food policy or consumers making poor choices. |
Nutrition Action Healthletter
January 2002
Michael F. Jacobson |
News From CSPI Ornish, Diehl, and CSPI have shown that if the right message is delivered well, people will respond. I know how important it is to deal with bioterrorism, but we also need to prod the government to make a major investment in diet and exercise campaigns. |
Food Processing
November 2007 |
Editor's Plate: For public consumption Processors should take the initiative against pseudoscience health reporting. |
Food Engineering
August 3, 2009 |
Governors urged to block sale of untreated Gulf Coast oysters Untreated oysters from the Gulf Coast often are contaminated with Vibrio vulnificus bacteria. For people with conditions that compromise the immune system, Vibrio vulnificus kills half the people it infects. |
Food Processing
May 2007
David Joy |
Regulatory Issues: Atkins put to the test The Atkins diet has long been vilified by traditional nutritionists and others. Yet it outperformed three others in terms of greater weight loss while not causing adverse metabolic effects. |
The Motley Fool
June 20, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Starbucks' Fat Flak The coffee giant's all about expansion. Does that go for waistlines, too? Investors may want to keep an eye on a consumer group's new attack on the coffee shop. |
Food Processing
January 2007
David Joy |
FDA considers functional foods There is no formal regulatory definition associated with the term "functional foods," but the FDA is soliciting information and comments on whether or not these foods should be regulated more strictly. |
The Motley Fool
June 16, 2006
Brian Gorman |
KFC's Trans-Fat Troubles Amid growing negative publicity, can the Colonel afford to resist reducing trans-fatty meals? |
Prepared Foods
April 7, 2007
Michael Leonard |
Taking Control - April 2007 A look at 100-calorie-pack product development... New mag staff member introduced... etc. |
