Category: Issue 465
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Study Examines Effect of Total Fat Intake on Body Weight
A recent World Health Organization-commissioned meta-analysis has reportedly concluded that diets lower in fat can reduce relative body weight by 1.6 kg, BMI by 0.56kg/m2 and waist circumference by 0.5 cm. Lee Hooper, et al., “Effect of reducing total fat intake on body weight: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials and cohort studies,”…
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Cheese the Secret Ingredient in French Cardiovascular Health?
A recent article has speculated that cheese consumption is behind the epidemiological phenomenon known as the “French paradox,” that is, “the low rates of cardiovascular mortality which have existed in France for decades despite high saturated fat consumption.” Ivan Petyaev and Yurig Bashmakov, “Could cheese be the missing piece in the French paradox puzzle,” Medical…
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Scientists Question Use of NHANES Data for Chemical Exposure Studies
A recent research article focusing on bisphenol A (BPA) has questioned the use of National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) datasets “to draw causal inferences regarding environmental chemical exposures and adverse health outcomes.” Judy LaKind, et al., “Use of NHANES Data to Link Chemical Exposures to Chronic Disease: A Cautionary Tale,” PLoS One, December…
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Why We Get Fat Author Launches Initiative to Investigate New Research on Obesity
Science Writer Gary Taubes, who authored Why We Get Fat, writes in Nature magazine that obesity is not a matter of energy in-energy out, but is rather a “hormonal, regulatory defect.” In his December 13, 2012, article titled “Treat obesity as physiology, not physics,” Taubes bases this conclusion on endocrinology and calls for better research…
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R-CALF Raises Concerns over Mad Cow Disease in Brazil
The Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund (R-CALF USA) sent a December 10, 2012, letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) requesting the immediate suspension of imports of ruminants and ruminant products from Brazil after the country notified the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) about a confirmed case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) detected in…
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SHB Attorneys Discuss Preemption Ruling in Nutrient-Content Class Action
Shook, Hardy & Bacon Global Product Liability attorneys Frank Cruz-Alvarez and Talia Zucker have co-authored an article about a recent federal court ruling that rejected The Hershey Company’s preemption-based challenge to a putative class action alleging that the nutrient content claims on its product labels violate the law. Additional information about Khasin v. The Hershey…
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Former Beef Processing Worker Sues Jamie Oliver and ABC Anchor
One of the 750 beef processing plant employees who lost his job in the wake of recent negative publicity involving “lean finely textured beef,” otherwise referred to in the media as “pink slime,” has reportedly filed a lawsuit in a Nebraska state court naming as defendants celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, ABC’s Diane Sawyer, a blogger,…
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Worker Exposed to Diacetyl on the Job Loses Before California Jury
According to a news source, the first “popcorn-lung” occupational exposure case tried in California has resulted in a defense verdict. Velasquez v. Flavor & Extract Mfrs. Ass’n, No. BC370319 (Cal. Super. Ct., Los Angeles Cty., verdict reached December 12, 2012). The plaintiff was a former flavoring factory employee who claimed that his exposure to the butter-flavoring chemical…