Michael Jacobson
Michael Jacobson
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These changes will saves thousands of lives every year.
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The risk to a given individual from having some saccharin-sweetened soda or coffee is really trivial. It's when you multiply that times 200 million people that the risk becomes much more significant.
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Fat slips through the intestinal wall and into the bloodstream where it distributes the nutrients throughout the body. Olestra can't get through the wall, and it continues down the intestines and out the body.
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Rather small amounts, the amount you might get in an ounce or two of potato chips, cause a wide range of gastro- intestinal problems.
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Even the most careful consumers, consumers with nutrition degrees, can scrutinize labels and have no idea how much sugar is added and how much comes from the fruit or dairy product.
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Listening to them, you would think they want studies done on humans.
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Having the word 'limit' sends a much stronger signal. We wanted the guidelines to include the limit of Department of Agriculture already recommends, which is 10 teaspoons a day.
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Nickelodeon and Kellogg's engage in business practices that literally sicken our children.
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Nickelodeon and Kellogg engage in business practices that literally sicken our children. It's a multimedia brainwashing and re-education campaign -- and a disease-promoting one at that.
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We had asked for the FDA to consider two other options. One is to get rid of these colorings completely and let companies replace them with safer ingredients. But if the FDA decided to require labeling, at least to indicate that these are insect derived.
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While functional foods hold much promise, without effective regulation, they may merely become the snake oil of the next century.
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But of course this silly legislative effort has nothing to do with encouraging personal responsibility and everything to do with pleasing a powerful and politically connected industry.
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It's almost worthless. I don't think the word soda pop is mentioned anywhere in these materials, even though it's the No. 1 source of calories for Americans.
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It looks to us as though hospitals hadn't been thinking about how they've been preparing foods.