The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has proposed the nation's first aquaculture policy, which it says it did in response to consumer demand for local, safe, sustainably produced seafood (FoodNavigator.com has a good summary). Ah yes. Seafood. The wild west of the food ... Read More ›
March 16, 2015
February 9, 2016
Do diet sodas really cause stroke? I’m dubious.
I've been asked repeatedly this week to comment on the huge press outcry about a study that links diet sodas to an increased risk of stroke and heart disease. I have not seen the study and neither has anyone else. It is not yet published. It was presented at the American Stroke Association's ... Read More ›
December 16, 2015
Are 8 glasses of water a day really necessary?
Q: It's such a hot summer and I'm sweating all the time, but I don't feel thirsty. Do I have to force myself to drink eight glasses of water a day? A: San Franciscans: Please, no complaints about summer fog. Where I live, it's hot and humid, and staying hydrated takes work. Everybody needs water ... Read More ›
March 16, 2015
What about Gulf seafood?
A reader, Lucas Pattan, writes: "I'm writing to ask if you could do a post over the next few weeks about what you expect the impact of the Gulf spill will be on America's seafood industry. GQ has an amazing piece about fishermen and rigmen affected by the Deepwater Horizon, and the information ... Read More ›
December 16, 2015
The latest food safety measure: vaccinate cows?
What is to be done about E. coli O157:H7? In the last two years, the USDA reports an astonishing 52 recalls of meat contaminated with these toxic bacteria compared to only 20 in the three years before that...Apparently, the cattle and beef packing industries are unwilling or unable to produce safe ... Read More ›
March 16, 2015
More school lunch meat shockers
That pesky newspaper, USA Today, has done it again. It's latest exposé on food safety points out that USDA rules for meat are more stringent for fast food than they are for school lunches and that fast food companies do a much better job of producing safe meat.The reporters say, for example, that ... Read More ›
March 16, 2015
Want safe meat? Make USDA do its job!
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 ingredients years ago under pressure from beef suppliers." Recall that since 1994, the USDA bans E. coli 0157:H7 in ground meat. It ... Read More ›
December 16, 2015
Family Doctors Resign from AAFP Over Coke Partnership
20 family physicians in Contra Costa County, California, ripped up their membership cards in the American Academy of Family Physicians in protest over the AAFP's partnership with Coca-Cola.The director of the Contra Costa Department of Health Services, Dr. William Walker, announced that he was ... Read More ›
February 9, 2016
Industry Abandons Smart Choices!
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 his investigation and the FDA's decision about front-of-package labeling. Says Blumenthal:Food manufacturers now realize that ... Read More ›
December 16, 2015
Much to do About Salt
It is one of the great oddities of nutrition that public health guidelines invariably recommend salt reduction but the science is so hard to do that the value of doing so can't be proven unequivocally. Hypertension specialists insist that salt reduction is essential for controlling high blood ... Read More ›
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