What You Don't Know About Processed Food
Writer Melanie Warner, whose new behind-the-scenes-look-at-the-world-of-processed-foods book, Pandora's Lunchbox, is out this week, spent the past year and a half investigating how processed foods are...
View ArticleSalt Sugar Fat
In creating products that will sell consistently, food manufacturers learned to walk a line between the extremes of an exciting first bite or sip and the utterly familiar. More than any other product,...
View ArticleWhat Big Soda Learned From the Marlboro Man
Food isn't tobacco. And Coca-Cola isn't Philip Morris. But the playbook is the same, and we ignore it at our peril.
View ArticleCoca-Cola's Assault on Tap Water
"Cap the Tap" is a perfect example of the doublespeak that Big Food and Big Soda often employ. The carefully calculated veneer of wanting to be "part of the solution" and "offering choices" to...
View ArticleBig Soda Double-crosses Michelle Obama's "Drink Up" Water Program -- in Less...
For those working diligently to promote tap water consumption, all is not lost.
View ArticleWater Is the Enemy, Gatorade Mobile Game Tells Youth
What else is Big Soda doing to quash consumer water consumption, and damage the First Lady's Drink Up campaign, that we have yet to discover?
View ArticleSugar Kills! How Do We Decrease Consumption?
Our advice could be simple: "Eat real food. If they advertise it, don't buy it." The explanation simple as well: They advertise food and beverages because they want you to eat and drink products that...
View ArticleSugary Drinks May Increase Stroke Risk
Here are some simple things we all can do: I was present at the Health Committee hearing and heard the testimony of Mr. Bob
View ArticleWorking Off a Coke: Warped Logic at Its Finest
The ad imagines what would happen if people paid for their can of Coke by working off the calories it contains. It shows that people are different, but on average, working off a can of soda takes just...
View ArticleFederal Excise Tax on Sugar Would Be Sweet
The bill doesn't keep the industry from producing and marketing healthy beverages. In fact, it encourages the production of healthier beverages by basing rates on the amount of sugar in drinks as...
View ArticleThe High Cost of Sitting Down With Industry
The nutritional fable goes something like this: Rather than criticize industry for its questionable practices, health organizations should "sit at the table" with industry leaders and see what...
View ArticleThe Soda Tax Wars: Let's Help San Francisco and Berkeley Crush Big Soda
Opponents of soda taxes say they don't work. They point to a study from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Actually, that study showed that soda taxes do work. Weak soda taxes of three percent,...
View ArticleThink a Soda Tax Is Regressive? Try Diabetes
If the well-being of lower-income Americans is so important to the beverage industry, how about ending the relentless marketing onslaught of sugar-laden and harmful products targeted right at them?
View ArticleWill Big Soda Learn From Election Day 2014?
Now is the time for the public health community to learn the real lessons from Berkeley.
View ArticleCalifornia Readies Another Assault On Sugary Drinks
Berkeley’s soda tax made headlines as the first in the nation. It prompted the beverage industry to spend a jaw-dropping
View ArticleHow The Food Industry Shapes Health Research
Those on the receiving end of corporate largesse point out that industry contributions typically don't go directly to a specific
View ArticleSan Francisco Wants To Be The City That Takes Down Big Soda
The proposals come on the heels of several other efforts in the state to make people more aware of sugary beverages' health
View ArticleThe Vast Majority Of Us Drink Too Many Sugar-Sweetened Beverages
Blame Big Soda for putting a huge burden on public health.
View ArticleNew CSPI Report Highlights Childhood "Globesity" Crisis, Hits Hard at Big Soda
The new CSPI report recommends barring the advertising and sale of sugar drinks (and other unhealthy foods) in schools and
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