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The news from China: two executions by Dr. Marion Nestle Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Remember last year’s scandal about the 300,000 Chinese infants who developed kidney disease after being fed infant formula laced with melamine? That anyone would put me ... Read on »

You heard it here: the hot trend is cupuaçu (?) by Dr. Marion Nestle Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating What, you may well ask, is cupuaçu? I confess never having heard of it but thank heavens for Wikipedia, which explains in somewhat limited detail that it is a coffee-l ... Read on »

Europe “clarifies” basis for health claims by Dr. Marion Nestle Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating European food manufacturers continue to file thousands of petitions for approval of health claims for their products. The European Food Standards Agency (EFSA) takes a dim vi ... Read on »

Supplement woes, again by Dr. Marion Nestle Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating The supplement industry has its hands full these days trying to keep up with negative publicity about taking vitamins. Its latest damage-control efforts are aimed at some N ... Read on »

Chocolate milk redux: Nutrifluff vs. Policy by Dr. Marion Nestle Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating First, the “Nutrifluff,” my term for research with results that are intriguing but of unknown clinical significance. I thank everyone who sent me links to the New ... Read on »

Want safe meat? Make USDA do its job! by Dr. Marion Nestle Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating The New York Times reports that the company selling contaminated ground beef responsible for killing two people and making 500 others sick, “ stopped testing its ingredi ... Read on »

Uh oh. Industry forces FDA to drop oyster safety plan by Dr. Marion Nestle Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating On November 13, the FDA announced indefinite postponement of rules requiring raw oysters from the Gulf of Mexico to undergo postharvest processing to destroy their content of ... Read on »

Bisphenol A: And now, erectile disfunction! by Dr. Marion Nestle Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating The newspapers and the Internet are full of reports that men exposed to bisphenol A (BPA) have higher levels of erectile disfunction. Before going into a panic, take a look a ... Read on »

FDA “looking into” safety of caffeinated booze by Dr. Marion Nestle Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating The FDA announced today that it has sent letters to 30 makers of caffeinated alcoholic beverages warning them that caffeine is not approved as an additive to booze:Under the F ... Read on »

FTC looks at marketing to children by Dr. Marion Nestle Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Thanks to Margo Wootan of CSPI for sending me the text of a speech by David Vladeck, the new director of the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Bureau of Consumer Protecti ... Read on »

Raise your hand for chocolate milk? by Dr. Marion Nestle Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Thanks to Marlene Schwartz of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale for alerting me to this Associated Press report about the new dairy industry campaign to resc ... Read on »

Are vegetarian diets OK? by Dr. Marion Nestle Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating I can’t believe the number of times I have been asked that question but it has just come up again in the context of recent complaints about the health and environmental ... Read on »

Claude Lévi-Strauss dies at 100 by Dr. Marion Nestle Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating In his thoughtful (and lengthy) obituary of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Edward Rothstein describes the French anthropologist as a profoundly influential and powerful thinker, ... Read on »

Kellogg’s withdraws IMMUNITY claim! by Dr. Marion Nestle Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Kellogg’s says it will phase out boxes of Cocoa and other Rice Krispies cereals with the IMMUNITY claim on them.Withdrawn, November 4, 2009The Immunity claim falls into ... Read on »

Europe rejects droves of health claims by Dr. Marion Nestle Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating In what the functional food industry refers to as a “ bad day at the office,” the European Food Standards Agency (EFSA) rejected hundreds of health claims, particu ... Read on »

Oh no! Bisphenol A again by Dr. Marion Nestle Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Here’s a good reason why food manufacturers don’t want to test for harmful chemicals. If you test, you might find something you don’t want to.Consumer Repor ... Read on »

Meat arguments: health, climate, taxes by Dr. Marion Nestle Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating If only meat were just a food and not the flash point for concerns about health, climate change, and tax policy. But it looms large in all such debates.According to reports, ... Read on »

Pushback against food advocates by Dr. Marion Nestle Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating My latest column in theSan Francisco Chronicle deals with an issue I discussed earlier on this blog: the ways in which agricultural and food interests are pushing back against ... Read on »

Italy’s new food label: “Mafia-free” by Dr. Marion Nestle Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Thanks to Anulu Mass of the Global Post for telling me about the latest front-of-package foods labeling initiative, this one from Italy. I’m just back from lecturing in ... Read on »

Industry abandons Smart Choices! by Dr. Marion Nestle Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating The Connecticut Attorney General, Richard Blumenthal, announced yesterday that all eight food companies involved in the Smart Choices program have agreed to drop out pending h ... Read on »

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