Michael Jacobson
Michael Jacobson
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Parents do bear the primary responsibility to ensure their kids eat a healthy diet. But the food industry is making their jobs nearly impossible. The industry needs to accept its fair share of the responsibility.
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Our goal is to get it out of the food supply. There are healthier alternatives.
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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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Hospitals should be setting examples for the community, setting the pace, even creating the market for healthier products. These are health institutions. They should be promoting health.
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I care about my child's health at home. I want the schools to care about my child's health when my child is under their care.
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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.