Food Politics
This is an (almost) daily posting of news and research items related to the interaction of agriculture, food, nutrition, and public health, with especially frequent attention to matters concerning obesity, food safety, and food health claims.
-
Feb 08, 12 06:07AMA company called Michael Foods has recalled more than one million hard-boiled eggs because of possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. These especially nasty bacteria grow happily at refrigerator...
-
Feb 07, 12 06:54AMThis morning, Walmart announced a new FOP labeling program: The logo will go on Walmart’s in-house brand products that meet the company’s nutritional criteria. These criteria are sim ilar...
-
Feb 06, 12 07:13AMOn the occasion of the two-year anniversary of Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign, it’s time to reflect again on what the campaign means for the White House, for childhood obesity and...
-
Feb 05, 12 06:17AMSo many comments came in to my blog post on Paula Deen’s diabetes announcement, “weighing in on Paula Deen,” that I thought it was worth revisiting in my monthly (first Sunday) column...
-
Feb 03, 12 05:42AMTim Lang, professor of food policy at City University, London, writes that the U.K. food industry is fighting back over initiatives to reduce calories and mitigate climate change. He sends an article from...
-
Feb 02, 12 06:28AMNature, the prestigious science magazine from Great Britain, has just published a commentary with a provocative title–The toxic truth about sugar—and an even more provocative subtitle: Add ed...
-
Feb 01, 12 06:39AMI was invited yesterday to a press event to announce the results of a survey conducted by Share Our Strength’s Cooking Matters program. The program and the survey, It’s Dinnertime: A Report...
-
Jan 31, 12 06:08AMA new diet study just out from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition went to a lot of trouble to prove the obvious. When it comes to weight loss, how much you eat matters more than the prop ortion...
-
Jan 30, 12 06:05AMI was fascinated to read Cookson Beecher’s Food Safety News’ analysis of current campaigns to label genetically modified foods (GMOs). It brought back memories of the time I served as an o bviously...
-
Jan 27, 12 06:40AMA study published online in the American Journal of Public Health fiddled around with red (avoid) and green (eat me) labels on items in a hospital cafeteria. The investigators measured sales before th e...
Showing 1 to 10 of 599 posts