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Video of the Week 7/16/10
By now you’ve probably heard about the threats from the notorious Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) to sue over toys in Happy Meals. It’s certainly silly, but typical fare from the killjoys and fun-haters at CSPI. We were happy to see CSPI’s head diet scold, Michael Jacobson, venture onto The O’Reilly Factor last night to defend his group’s latest ploy in the “No Spin Zone.” And Jacobson wound up on the receiving...
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Quote of the Week 7/13/10
It’s only Tuesday, but it’s hard to see how anyone’s going to top this. Love him or hate him, talk radio host Rush Limbaugh doesn’t pull any punches. Like us, he is outraged over the misnamed Center for Science in the Public Interest’s (CSPI) threat to sue over toys in Happy Meals. And on a recent show, Limbaugh gave the food cops a piece of his mind: You know, the Center for Science in the...
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CSPI “Awards” More of the Same (Drivel) 5/26/10
It seems like it’s been a while since the nutritional purists at the Center for Science in the Public Interest last pulled a hyperbolic snack-hating stunt. But we knew we wouldn’t have to wait too long. Yesterday CSPI unveiled the latest edition of its “Xtreme Eating Awards” for high-calorie restaurant dishes. It’s an annual media stunt for the food police whose puritanism excludes nearly any concept of moderation. Eating a 2,500-calorie meal every day isn’t generally...
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Food Police Target Kids’ Toys 4/28/10
Santa Clara County’s board of supervisors despondently voted 3-2 yesterday to ban toys in Californian restaurant meals marketed to kids that exceed a certain amount of calories. The purpose, said the measure’s sponsor, is to fight obesity. Get it?  They’re banning toys for kids…for the children. Given the twisted logic of obesity crusaders, perhaps it was only a matter of time. Of course, it’s hard to see how this directly fights obesity. As our senior research analyst...
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Salt Assault Heads Down Slippery, Grainy Slope 4/22/10
The big news this week is that salt is officially the latest target in the national fight to control the American diet. The Washington Post originally reported on Tuesday that the FDA is moving to seek mandatory restrictions on how much salt can be in foods. The FDA denied this strategy in a statement. But judging from what public health activists are saying, it’s likely that the Post story will prove prophetic. Yesterday the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a report titled...
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