Good Food is Everybody's Business
While the interior aisles of an average supermarket are filled with rows and rows of mostly junk processed non-foods, there is one aisle I want to make a fuss over. For the sake of discussion I will categorically refer to it as “aisle 6”, the oasis of the inner supermarket.
A new study – authored by researchers with ties to the plastic and chemical industries and funded by Bayer Schering Pharma AG, the largest producer of BPA in Europe – has come out concluding that bisphenol A (BPA) is safe. Suzanne Rust, Environmental Reporter for California Watch, refutes its objectivity.
A new study by the Society of Actuaries – those folks who figure out all the odds that help insurance companies make money – estimates that the total economic cost of overweight and obese people in the U.S. and Canada is $300 billion a year.
Marion Nestle, the nation’s most recognized nutrition watchdog, highlights food consumption and nutritional information published in the newly released 2011 Statistical Abstract of the U.S.
We’ve all heard about the evils of High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) – its the cause of Type 2 diabetes and nearly everything else bad like obesity. But what’s the real story…? Todd Kueny, who blogs at Just Got Lucky, fills us in on the details.
Last week your editors heard Marion Nestle, author of Food Politics, cover a lot of ground in a very short time during her part of the Food: Eating Your Environment series at the University of Washington. She told us over and over again: portion sizes have grown enormously over the last 50 years and the average consumer has no clue that larger servings have more calories!
