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"Michael Jacobson, Margo Wootan, Bonnie Liebman, and others at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) have devoted years to educating the public and policy makers about key nutrition issues, attending to issues such as labeling, packaging, and advertising of foods. cspi publishes an excellent newsletter called the Nutrition Action Healthletter (www.cspitnet.org). CSPI also has developed a nutrition site for children (www.Smart-Mouth.org).82 Among its features is a character named Gus, whose Trust Gus quiz helps children learn about the food industry." - Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, Food Fight (Get the book.)

"In an investigation into whether or not the journals with the best "conflicts of interest" policies were adequately monitoring the admissions of private industry ties, the cspi researchers found they were not. Even at JAMA the cspi researchers discovered that 11% of the articles were written by authors who failed to disclose their financial conflicts of interest.5 regularly (44% attend two or more each month). This same study noted, "Students regard the pharmaceutical industry as one of their most important sources of pharmaceutical information." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"In 1986, a consumer advocacy group known as the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) and the American Soybean Association launched an all-out attack on tropical oils. The CSPI's antagonism towards tropical fats arose not because they had been documented to cause any adverse health consequences—they hadn't, and still haven't—but simply because of their high saturated fat content. As for the soybean industry's involvement, coconut and palm kernel oils had a long and safe history of use in the food industry, providing a major impediment to the growth of the vegetable oil industry." - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Some of the most vocal opposition has come from cspi. It expressed serious concern that acesulfame K may be a potential carcinogen. In June 1995, cspi filed a protest with the FDA, saying that the sweetener's safety had not been appropriately confirmed in long-term studies. According to cspi, tests done on acesulfame K "followed inadequate protocols, which are greatly at variance with current standards for test design, execution and reporting required for the National Toxicology Program's bioassays." - Brenda Davis and Tom Barnard, Defeating Diabetes (Get the book.)

"The question is: how many people suffered a heart attack, stroke, cancer, neurodegenerative disease, or worsening of their particular disease because of the cspi and federal government/industry collusion? How many people died as a result of this secretly, profit driven campaign? Those who scream for more power to the government and more regulation by the government should remember that it was only by the power of the government that these terrible changes in our foods took place." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"The cspi has recommended to the FDA to change the status of salt from "generally recognized as safe" (which leaves it essentially unregulated), to "food additive" since this would give the FDA more authority to regulate its use in foods. The idea of regulating table salt may sound ridiculous at first but it's actually a great idea. Remember the Japanese and their long lifespans? Well, it seems there's always a catch. Many of the fermented soy products the Japanese consume are overloaded with refined table salt. In fact, much research suggests ".. .dietary factors, especially sodium ..." - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.)

"It hired Washington's "most feared and vilified" private-investigation firm to obtain information that might undermine CSPI's credibility, and it placed media stories critical of cspi in publications with financial connections to the company. For example, a Reader's Digest article characterizing cspi as the "food police" failed to mention that P&G is the magazine's third-largest advertiser and had spent a million dollars on advertising in that particular issue alone.30 DOES OLESTRA WORK?" - Marion Nestle, Food Politics (Get the book.)

"The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) started an organization called "Kids Against Junk Foods" to raise health awareness among children. The cspi has targeted major corporations in the fight to protect children. An example is the "Save Harry" campaign to protest Coke's exclusive global marketing rights to the Harry Potter movie." - Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, Food Fight (Get the book.)

"In publicizing the lawsuit, CSPI's press release quoted Sherri Carlson, a mother of three, who lamented Nickelodeon's "enticing junk food ads. Adding insult to injury, we enter the grocery store and see our beloved Nick characters plastered on all those junky snacks and cereals. This irresponsible marketing to young children undermines my efforts as a parent and must be stopped." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"In June 1995, cspi filed a protest with the FDA, saying that the sweetener's safety had not been appropriately confirmed in long-term studies. According to cspi, tests done on acesulfame K "followed inadequate protocols, which are greatly at variance with current standards for test design, execution and reporting required for the National Toxicology Program's bioassays." Numerous leading cancer experts provided cspi with statements of support to assist in their efforts to get this sweetener reassessed." - Brenda Davis and Tom Barnard, Defeating Diabetes (Get the book.)

"As Linn and Jacobson now note, this much-criticized marketing approach was eventually phased out, we suspect because of pressure from groups such as the CCFC and the cspi.) Other Countries Set Higher Priorities on the Weil-Being of Their Kids Despite our alleged civilized democracy, what's happening in the United States seems backward. By contrast, a number of countries around the world protect their children with stringent TV advertising rules and regulations. Sweden and Norway ban advertising to kids under 12. Ireland prohibits TV commercials for fast food and candy." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.) "This is up from $7 billion a decade ago, according to cspi. Children are seduced by a nonstop parade of television ads—some 17,000 to 40,000 per year, according to varying estimates. And these figures don't even include pervasive "product placements" of junk food in films and TV shows. About 70 percent of TV commercials advertise sugary, fatty, salty foods. Rarely can you find ads enticing our young to eat fruits and vegetables. Kids are also targeted on the Internet, on school buses, in classrooms and cafeterias, at the movies, on DVDs, and even via cell phones." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.) "Nickelodeon and Kellogg engage in business practices that literally sicken our children," said cspi executive director Michael F. Jacobson in announcing the proposed lawsuit, which seeks to ban ads aimed at children for Kellogg junk foods on Nickelodeon, and prevent such beloved Nickelodeon characters as Dora the Explorer or SpongeBob from appearing on packaged junk foods. The threatened lawsuit seeks to address several marketing offenses. For example, of 168 TV food commercials reviewed that appeared on Nickelodeon, 88 percent were for foods of poor nutritional quality; of 27." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"This rosy rhetoric has been roundly criticized by cspi and other advocates and lawmakers who are calling on restaurants to make nutrition information clearly visible in restaurants at the point of decision-making—on menus and menu boards. Marketers call such positioning "point-of-purchase" and understand that it has the highest impact on consumer behavior, which explains why industry is so dead set against it." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) "But as CSPI's Gardner responded: "Parents are also responsible for making sure their young kids don't get hit by cars. But if someone's recklessly driving around your neighborhood at eighty miles an hour, you're going to want to stop them."23 In other words, parents are doing the best they can in a world that makes it almost impossible to protect their children. Our society has created a set of laws designed to protect consumers from harm. And filing a lawsuit is one of the few ways that private citizens have of enforcing those laws." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) "According to cspi, it is common for restaurants to serve two to three times more than what is considered a standard serving size. A gander at the gargantuan portions served at many sit-down chains, such as Hardee's "Monster Thick-burger" (1,420 calories, 107 grams of fat), gives you the idea. So it should come as no surprise that when we eat out, we consume more calories. Children eat almost twice as many calories in a restaurant meal as when they eat at home.7 Most restaurant food is high in what Americans should be eating less of—saturated fat, trans fat, and salt—and low in nutrients." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) "Moreover, a study conducted by cspi found that the calorie content of typical restaurant meals was difficult to measure accurately, even by well-trained nutrition professionals. In fact, the experts' estimates were sometimes off by significant amounts—200 to 600 calories.9 If even nutrition authorities can't get it right, then consumers are unlikely to do much better. Nutrition labeling works One of the happy side effects of nutrition labeling on packaged foods is that it can take a whole lot longer to get the shopping done." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"In a letter to the FDA, Merrill Goozner, Director of the Integrity in Science Project at cspi, wrote that three scientists serving on FDA advisory committees have financial conflicts of interest that compromise the integrity of the FDA. The National Institutes of Health, another branch of the Department of Health and Human Services, has been under recent scrutiny by members of a House subcommittee. The members believe that reforms are needed to ensure ethical standards among that agency's top scientists." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"Even at JAMA the cspi researchers discovered that 11% of the articles were written by authors who failed to disclose their financial conflicts of interest.5 regularly (44% attend two or more each month). This same study noted, "Students regard the pharmaceutical industry as one of their most important sources of pharmaceutical information."46 More and more medical schools are not even teaching pharmacology47 and are allowing the drug companies to educate our future doctors through industry-sponsored lectures, meetings and lunches." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"Its chief official wrote directly to the NYU president: "We are very disappointed that as a result of this desperate attack by the cspi, worthy students will not be offered this valuable opportunity to subsidize their studies in the area of chronic diseases affecting the African American population." The Calorie Control Council wrote me that it was "astounded to learn that New York University has refused to accept a scholarship to have been awarded by Sweet'N Low to a minority student. . . The scientific research on saccharin soundly supports its safety." Well, yes and no." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) "Between 1990 and 2003, cspi recorded 554 outbreaks caused by eating produce, an average of 42 per year. These amounted to 12 percent of total outbreaks, but 20 percent of individual cases and more than 28,000 pBMWpMBMM illnesses. Could some of these ill- I f problems arise, fruit and vegetable nesses have been prevented by better I companies are subject to fines, federal regulation? I think so." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"It seemed the cspi considered saturated fat to be the worst evil ever to face mankind. The ASA had found a powerful and vocal ally in its campaign to take over the tropical oil market. For a group that claimed to be an advocate for responsible nutritional education, the cspi was surprisingly ignorant regarding saturated fats, especially concerning MCFA. Instead of informing the public about the truth regarding saturated fats, they only succeeded in strengthening misconceptions and falsehoods." - Bruce Fife and Jon J. Kabara, The Healing Miracle of Coconut Oil (Get the book.)

"A report from cspi later in 2001 complained that virtually all shellfish harvested from the Gulf of Mexico carried dangerous Vibrio bacteria but that the FDA had ceded its oversight authority to state officials who are so heavily influenced by local fishing industries that they were doing practically nothing to protect public health. Instead, everyone was leaving prevention up to consumers. Seafood safety does not have to be this way. Seafood companies are perfectly capable of maintaining high safety standards, pleasing their customers, and making money at the same time." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) "The USDA and FDA responded by announcing that they would require Safe Handling labels on eggs (like those demanded in the cspi petition), and also would require retailers, transporters, and warehouses to keep eggs well refrigerated. By this time, voluntary efforts on the part of egg producers had succeeded in reducing the number of SE-contaminated eggs by half (from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 20,000), but thousands of illnesses were still being recorded from raw eggs in foods as diverse as tuna salad, bread pudding, lasagna, and chiles rellenos." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"The consumer advocacy organization Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) supported these requests, saying, "The success of such efforts would benefit from measures that cspi has advocated for years—measures thwarted by the lobbying power of the food industry. If there has ever been a time to put safety before profits, it is now."60 At the Senate hearings, however, food industry officials flatly opposed such measures on the grounds that they would be expensive to implement and would force companies to open their books to federal regulators." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.)

"Michael Jacobson cspi which are absorbed through the skin), contain chemical additives that have been linked to numerous health problems. Children are especially at risk due to the smaller, more sensitive nature of their developing bodies, and the fact that most processed and junk foods geared to the younger set are loaded with artificial colorings, flavorings, and preservatives. In the early 1970's, Dr." - Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C., If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle (Get the book.)

"Its disadvantage, though, is that it has caused worrisome liver changes and tumors in rats. cspi has urged the FDA not to approve olestra until all safety questions have been resolved. Sugar substitutes have a dismal history. Dulcin was banned in 1950 and cyclamate in 1970 as cancer threats. Saccharin appears to increase slightly the risk of cancer. Aspartame may cause occasional mental and physical problems. Acesulfame K (Sunette) was approved in 1988 over CSPI's objections that it caused cancer in rats." - Michael F. Jacobson, Ph.D., Lisa Y. Lefferts and Anne Witte Garland, Safe Food: Eating Wisely In A Risky World (Get the book.) "In 1980, cspi sponsored a Caffeine and Birth Defects Clearinghouse in order to find children affected by caffeine. CSPI's report of three children who were born with missing fingers or toes was published in the British medical journal, The Lancet. Each of these children's mothers drank eight or more cups of coffee per day. Several human studies have shown that caffeine does not pose a big risk, but they could not rule out small risks. The FDA has advised that "Pregnant women should avoid caffeine-containing foods and drugs, if possible, or consume them only sparingly." - Michael F. Jacobson, Ph.D., Lisa Y. Lefferts and Anne Witte Garland, Safe Food: Eating Wisely In A Risky World (Get the book.) "In 1987, cspi urged the FDA not to approve acesulfame K, but was ignored. After the FDA gave the chemical its blessing, cspi urged that it be banned. The FDA hasn't yet ruled on that request. • Safe Food choice: Avoid acesulfame K and products containing it. Your sweet tooth isn't worth it. ARTIFICIAL COLORINGS Food manufacturers frequently use artificial colorings, often in combination with artificial flavorings, to replace natural ingredients. The red or yellow color of a soft: drink is rarely due to natural cherry or orange extract." - Michael F. Jacobson, Ph.D., Lisa Y. Lefferts and Anne Witte Garland, Safe Food: Eating Wisely in a Risky World (Get the book.)

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