Category: Media Coverage
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Jim Prevor, “Aggrandizing the FDA Only Distracts from Real Solutions,” The New Atlantis, May 21, 2010
The man who authors The Perishable Pundit blog warns in this article that food safety legislation currently pending in Congress that would give the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) mandatory recall authority fails to address the issues that could have a real impact on addressing the problem of food contamination. He argues that absolute food…
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Jerome Groopman, “The Plastic Panic,” The New Yorker, May 31, 2010
“Bisphenol A, commonly known as BPA, may be among the world’s most vilified chemicals,” opens this May 31, 2010, New Yorker article that positions the present-day furor in the long and often convoluted history of toxicology. According to author Jerome Groopman, scientists cannot agree whether BPA is a cautionary tale against overstating risks or understating…
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Daniela Perdomo, “Big Soda Wants to Keep America Fat: Here’s How to Fight Back,” AlterNet, May 21, 2010
AlterNet staff writer and editor Daniela Perdomo takes a look in this article at the money that the beverage industry is purportedly spending to oppose federal and state efforts to impose a tax on soft drinks. According to the article, the American Beverage Association increased its lobbying nearly 4,000 percent over the last quarter of…
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Anneli Rufus, “Why Caffeine Is the Perfect Addiction for a Worker Bee Society,” AlterNet, May 19, 2010
This article by book author Anneli Rufus discusses a recently issued scientific study that purports to show that caffeine can “significantly reduce [] the number of errors” made by shift workers and can, in fact, be more effective at preventing errors than a nap. Rufus further explores how widespread U.S. consumers’ alleged addiction to coffee,…
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Alice Lichtenstein, David Ludwig, “Bring Back Home Economics Education,” Journal of the American Medical Association, May 11, 2010
Tufts University Professor Alice Lichtenstein and Harvard Medical School Professor David Ludwig team up in this commentary to advocate bringing back home economics to school classrooms as a way to combat the country’s childhood obesity epidemic. “Instruction in basic food preparation and meal planning skills needs to be part of any long-term solution,” they write.…
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Marion Nestle Co-Authors Book on Pet Food Industry
New York University Professor Marion Nestle has announced the publication of Feed Your Pet Right, an extension of What to Eat that traces the evolution of commercial pet foods and recommends alternative diets. According to a May 10, 2010, Food Politics blog post, even those people without pets should pay attention to this $18 billion…
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Chocolate Toddler Formula Draws Ire of Consumer Advocates
“Don’t you love the idea of year-old infants drinking sugar-sweetened chocolate milk? And laced with ‘omega-3s for brain development, 25 nutrients for healthy growth, and prebiotics to support the immune system’?,” opines New York University Professor Marion Nestle in an April 26, 2010, Food Politics blog post decrying chocolate dietary supplements for toddlers ages 12…
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Donna Marie Owens, “Check It Out: Get Your Groceries At The Library,” National Public Radio, April 26, 2010
This article details a new program in Baltimore that allows residents to order groceries online in two branch public libraries and pick them up there the next day. The Baltimore City Health Department launched the Virtual Supermarket Project to help combat the city’s lack of healthy, fresh food in communities where major supermarkets within walking…