New Plant Foods Coalition Enters Dietary Guidelines Debate
Every sector of the food industry–most of them unhealthy–has something to say about how Americans should eat. But we rarely hear the voices of healthier food companies in shaping the Dietary Guidelines...
View ArticleMeat lobby peddles doubt to undermine dietary guidelines
Cross–posted from Al Jazeera The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, updated every five years, never fails to cause a stir. For the current revision, released in February, a federally appointed...
View ArticleEvaluating Industry Self-Regulation of Food Marketing to Children
A study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine compared television food advertising to U.S. children in 2007 and 2013. No significant improvement in the nutritional quality of foods marketed to...
View ArticleThe Misinformation Industry: Food flavor safety system a ‘black box’
By Chris Young and Erin Quinn, Center for Public Integrity Ingredients created by food companies flavor what Americans eat each day — everything from juice drinks and potato chips to ice cream and...
View ArticleAdded Sugar on the Nutrition Facts Label
The Union of Concerned Scientists has released a new fact sheet summarizing public comments on the FDA proposal to include a line for added sugars on the Nutrition Facts label on food packaging. The...
View ArticleUS Hospitals Distributing Infant Formula Packs to Breastfeeding Mothers declines
A new report in Pediatrics found that the distribution of infant formula discharge packs to breastfeeding mothers declined markedly from 2007 to 2013. The percentage of hospitals distributing infant...
View ArticleHas the American Society for Nutrition Lost All Credibility?
By Michele Simon, cross –posted from Eat Drink Politics In my new report, I expose the American Society for Nutrition (ASN), the nation’s leading authority of nutrition scientists and researchers, for...
View ArticleHealth Advocates Remake Coke Ad
Center for Science in the Public Interest has remade Coca-Cola’s iconic “Hilltop” ad with a new message. The new video is health advocates’ latest salvo in their campaign to reduce the incidence of...
View ArticleSpinning Food: How Food Industry Front Groups are Shaping the Story of Food
A new report by Friends of the Earth, “Spinning Food: How Food Industry Front Groups and Covert Communications are Shaping the Story of Food,” documents unprecedented levels of spending from front...
View ArticleRound Up of Recent Coverage on Monsanto’s Campaign to Block GMO Labelling
Monsanto, the world’s largest producer of genetically modified seeds and herbicides, is campaigning for a federal law to block state and local GMO labelling laws. Here are a few recent stories on the...
View ArticleInteractive Map Documents Rising Tide of State Preemption
by Grassroots Change Since the 1980s, preemption has been used to undermine grassroots movements across public health issues including tobacco, nutrition, housing and gun violence. But over the last...
View ArticleThe end of chicken?
by Michele Simon @MicheleRSimon and Jamie Berger @jamiecberger July 20th, 2015 Cross posted from Eat Drink Politics and Al Jazeera While the western United States is suffering from crippling...
View ArticleNestlé/Gerber again caught conning parents
Nestlé has been sued in California state court for shenanigans involving products of its Gerber division, reports Consumer Law and Policy Blog. Nestlé wants to grab the same parents who fed Gerber...
View ArticleTaxes on tobacco, alcohol and sugar sweetened beverages: Linkages and lessons...
A review of taxes on tobacco, alcohol and sugary beverages in Social Sciences and Medicine concludes that while “specific taxes based on the volume of beverages are likely to reduce the demand for...
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Beach Reads on Corporate Skullduggery
August is a time for vacations and reading on the beach—or in an air-conditioned library. For those dedicated Corporations and Health Watch readers who can’t resist an opportunity to find out more...
View ArticleSelling science, selling soda: How Coca Cola buys credibility from universities
by Nicholas Freudenberg Eight years ago, I wrote in CHW about how and why corporations buy scientists to advance their business goals. Sadly, the problem continues. This week the New York Times...
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Hampton Creek targeted by USDA-controlled egg industry program
Michele Simon, Cross-posted from Eat Drink Politics Hundreds of pages of disclosed communications from the American Egg Board reveal a coordinated two-year plan to undermine and attack Hampton Creek,...
View ArticleCaloric Intake from Fast Food Among US Children and Adolescents Increases
From 1994 through 2006, caloric intake from fast food increased from 10% to 13% among children aged 2–18 years, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control. In 2011–2012, 34.3% of...
View ArticleCoca Cola: what have they done for your community lately?
by Nicholas Freudenberg Coca-Cola, the world’s largest maker of sugary beverages, has spent almost $120 million in the past five years to pay for academic health research, partnerships with major...
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Health and Trade: what hope for SDG3?
Emma Woodford, Founder and Director, Health and Trade Network (HaT) Cross posted from Health and Trade Network “… the forces of power, particularly corporate power, are impatient with what is adequate...
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