Category: Issue 513
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Lancet Article Questions Fruit Juice Consumption
A recent article published in The Lancet: Diabetes & Endocrinology has questioned current nutritional guidelines that permit the substitution of fruit juice for one daily fruit serving, arguing that some fruit juices contain as many calories as other sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs). Jason Gill and Naveed Sattar, “Fruit juice: just another sugary drink?,” The Lancet: Diabetes…
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Caffeine Intake of Youth Focus of New Study
A recent study has reported that although “mean caffeine intake has not increased among children and adolescents in recent years,” “coffee and energy drinks represent a greater proportion of caffeine intake as soda intake has declined.” Amy Branum, et al., “Trends in Caffeine Intake Among U.S. Children and Adolescents,” Pediatrics, February 2014. Using 24-hour dietary…
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NYT “Room for Debate” Contributors Urge CVS to Drop Soda, Energy Drinks
Contributors to a recent New York Times “Room for Debate” column have urged CVS Caremark Corp. to stop selling soda, energy drinks and high-calorie snacks in the wake of its decision to discontinue the sale of tobacco products. Noting in her debate response that “food is not tobacco,” New York University Nutrition Professor Marion Nestle…
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Efforts Underway to Interest State AGs in Obesity Litigation
According to Politico.com, an attorney who formerly represented cigarette manufacturers and served as in-house counsel for a major food company has written to the attorneys general (AGs) of 16 states seeking to interest them in bringing a lawsuit against “big food” to recover the financial Medicaid burdens associated with treating obesity-related diseases. Similar to AG…
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California Meat Processor Recalls 8.7 Million Pounds of Beef
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has announced that Petaluma, California-based meat processor Rancho Feeding Corp. has recalled nearly 9 million pounds of beef products—all of the beef processed by the company from January 2013 through January 2014 and shipped to California, Florida, Illinois, and Texas. According to FSIS, “the…
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IOM Issues Report on Sustainable Diets
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has issued a report that summarizes its Food Forum and Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine that took place May 7-8, 2013. Titled “Sustainable Diets: Food for Healthy People and a Healthy Planet – Workshop Summary,” the report discusses current and emerging information on the food and nutrition…
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WHO World Cancer Report Targets Diet and Nutrition
The World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) last week published its World Cancer Report 2014, a collaborative effort providing “a professional, multidisciplinary assessment of all aspects of the geographical distribution, biology, etiology, prevention, and control of cancer.” In addition to a chapter on cancer etiology as it relates to diet,…
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Kroger “Simple Truth” Chicken Labeling Challenged in Class Action
Represented by animal rights organization Compassion over Killing, a California resident has filed a putative statewide class action against the Kroger Co., alleging that it misleads consumers by labeling its store-brand chicken products as “sourced from chickens raised ‘cage free in a humane environment,’” when the company’s “Simple Truth” chickens “are treated no differently than…