Michael Jacobson
Michael Jacobson
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Denmark has in effect banned partially hydrogenated oil; Canada is considering it. The United States ought to do the same.
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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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The agency has had so much turnover in the top spot, and turmoil throughout, that it could have benefited from a period of steady leadership.
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This is just warmed-over, namby-pamby 1950s nutrition education. It's telling kids what they know.
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Switching to butter, palm oil, anything else would be an improvement.
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Their overall mix of products is still way too high in saturated and trans fats, salt and sugar. But you can't fault them for offering a healthy alternative.
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Their weight is front and center. And it's a far greater risk to their health than these artificial sweeteners.
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The USDA is trying to do nutrition education on the cheap.
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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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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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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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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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This information on the package is useful, but it doesn't offer people an opportunity to compare products, ... Having it on the menu board would spur a lot of people to switch to a smaller order of fries, a diet soda, or a regular hamburger instead of a cheeseburger, for instance.
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A far better step would be to provide calorie counts right on the menu board, so consumers would have that one critical piece of information before they placed their order.