"The American Medical Association’s recent announcement that it regards obesity as a disease is terrible news for food companies, public health advocates, and, most of all, the very people it intends to help, obese Americans. It could ignite new wars between the...
New York's Prof Marion Nestle, arch food industry critic, published her ground-breaking, game-changing book, Food Politics, some ten years ago - and it's now published in a 10th anniversary edition with an introduction by fellow über-critic, Michael Pollan. The author, here, reflects on what has...
A court has blocked a ban on the sale of large sugary drinks - including soda - from restaurants in New York City, a day before the law was to take effect. New York state Supreme Court Judge Milton Tingling declared invalid Mayor Bloomberg's plan...
This past Sunday, the New York Times Magazine ran a cover story on the notion of “food addiction,” claiming that food companies make food that is just too good. The article is a publicity-generating excerpt from a new book, Salt Sugar...
Following Coca-Cola's recent airing of obesity-themed ads on US television, the obesity police have come out blazing, turning a solvable problem into a needless war. The food-beverage industries have never been under more pressure from ever-shriller war cries. Here are some excellent,...
Food-related government intervention is trotted out all the time by food crusaders everywhere. But before we get to those interventions, maybe we should ask how we got here in the first place. [Lovely commentary from Rob Lyons, deputy editor of spiked-online.com, one of...
An article published in Advances in Nutrition explores the role of processed foods in meeting the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Additionally, it aims to address the widely held misconceptions about processed foods, a situation that presents challenges to both food scientists and nutritionists...
In the western world, food marketers are getting pushed into an ever tighter corner as anxiety about the obesity epidemic rises. Governments are ramping up the pressure, with new regulations and taxes. This report by JWT Intelligence. ...
Who cares if the Olympics are sponsored by Coca-Cola and Cadbury? The critics of London 2012’s fast-food funders can go take a running jump, writes Rob Lyons in this provocative piece...
New York's mayor has defended his proposed prohibition on sugary drinks with an appeal to science, but the very people who carried out the studies in question say he's misread their work. This article is by Brian Wansink (PhD), the John S Dyson...
Cereal companies, maligned for overprocessing, are now using the same techniques to put some nature back in the bowl...
Over the last decade, America's war on obesity has targeted some fairly obvious culprits, including fast food, pastries, fried foods and soda. But recent scientific studies and a new government-sponsored documentary, "Weight of the Nation", that aired last week on the HBO channel, have identified...
From obesity to cancer to Taliban terrorism, the food and beverage industry seems to get blamed for all of this world's ills. OK, maybe not the Taliban, but for just about everything else, the modern diet and processed foods are fingered as...
"The Blog of Bruce Bradley" is a new blog, of many, about alleged food industry deception, but with an interesting twist. The author, Bruce Bradley, spent over 15 years as a food marketer at companies like General Mills, Pillsbury, and Nabisco. He has since, in...
Denmark has introduced a ‘fat tax’ - but what business is it of governments to tell us what we should eat? [Great commentary on this issue by www.spikedonline.com]...
The processed food industry today finds itself under constant and ridiculous, Luddite-like attack as popular media and the food police warn consumers only to eat food that is unprocessed, organic, authentic, real, natural, local, preservative-free, additive-free etc. This gem of an article...