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"If you would like to join in our work to promote healthful diets and tackle other issues in medicine and research, I hope you will consider joining pcrm. You will find full details at www.pcrm.org. Members receive our quarterly magazine, Good Medicine, and can sign up to receive PCRM's Breaking Medical News, a free, noncommercial service that alerts you by e-mail when new studies are about to break. Menus and Recipes The following menus and recipes were developed and tested by Bry-anna Clark Grogan, a veteran chef, recipe developer, and food writer." - Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan, Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes: The Scientifically Proven System for Reversing Diabetes Without Drugs (Get the book.)

"Website: www.pcrm.org Founded in 1985, pcrm is a nonprofit organization supported by over 5,000 physicians and 100,000 laypersons. pcrm programs combine the efforts of medical experts and grassroots individuals to promote preventive medicine through research programs, reforms of federal nutrition policies, and the advocacy of higher ethics and effectiveness in the use and research of drugs, synthetic hormones, and other mainstream medical approaches. Recommended Reading Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs. Stephen M. Fried. New York: Bantam Doubleday, 1999." - Larry Trivieri, Jr., Alternative Medicine the Definitive Guide, Second Edition (Get the book.)

"McDonald's salads were among the worst offenders. pcrm noted that all of the corporation's salad entrees contain chicken (which has virtually as much cholesterol as beef) and concluded that the salads "may very well clog up your arteries." The group also awarded the Announces "Balanced, Active Lifestyles Platform" General Release of Super Size Me Lawsuit filed against McDonald's over cooking oil April 2004 May 2004 July 2004 Bacon Ranch Salad with Crispy Chicken and Newman's Own Ranch Dressing "the dubious distinction of having the most fat of any salad rated." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"Members receive our quarterly magazine, Good Medicine, and can sign up to receive PCRM's Breaking Medical News, a free, noncommercial service that alerts you by e-mail when new studies are about to break. Menus and Recipes The following menus and recipes were developed and tested by Bry-anna Clark Grogan, a veteran chef, recipe developer, and food writer. Originally from California, Bryanna now lives in British Columbia. Her many cookbooks cover an enormous range of foods and cooking styles, from quick and easy recipes to many kinds of ethnic cuisine." - Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan, Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes: The Scientifically Proven System for Reversing Diabetes Without Drugs (Get the book.)

"When I asked dietitian Brie Turner-McGrievy (who conducted the pcrm study) to explain the discrepancy, she said that the site numbers must have changed, since she used data that was posted in 2003. She also noted that right after her group's study was released, McDonald's changed their nutrition facts to list all of the salads without chicken as an option. (This was not available prior to the survey.) "So we know they went back to look at their nutrition facts after our review." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) "The nonprofit, which also petitioned the federal government to stop the campaigns, says that other researchers have found that dairy products either have no effect on weight or cause weight gain.30 pcrm had initially included Kraft as a defendant, but dropped the company from the suit after it agreed to end an ad campaign featuring images such as a giant block of cheese engraved with the words Burn More Fat. Nevertheless, Kraft's Web site inexplicably continues to tout dairy as a weight-loss aid, appealing to Zemel's studies to corroborate this claim." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"You may also wish to join the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a nonprofit organization I founded in 1985 to promote preventive medicine, good nutrition, and higher standards in research. PCRM's magazine, Good Medicine, is available for both doctors and laypersons. You can write to pcrm at 5100 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 404, Washington, D.C. 20016. I wish you the very best of health! MENUS AND RECIPES BY JENNIFER RAYMOND A WORD FROM THE COOK When Neal Barnard described this book and asked me to do the recipes, I must admit I had some misgivings." - Neal Barnard, M.D., Foods That Fight Pain: Revolutionary New Strategies for Maximum Pain Relief (Get the book.)

"But here's the funny thing: these groups' agendas are not at all concealed— they are trying to protect animals, and they readily acknowledge this goal. pcrm and PETA just also happen to subscribe to the scientifically supported view that vegetarian diets are healthier than meat-centered ones. In CCF's myth-making, this scientific verdict on human nutrition is yet another pesky fact that it's prepared to ignore in the interest of smearing and marginalizing food-industry critics. Why engage in serious debate on the merits of the issue when name-calling is so much easier?" - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"Late in 1998, pcrm filed a federal lawsuit based on this and one other charge: 6 of the 11 members of the Guidelines committee had significant ties to the meat, dairy, or egg industries. pcrm charged that these members—all university-based academics—had received research grants from, lectured to, consulted for, published with, or served on boards of the organizations with commercial interests in specific guidelines and what was said about them. Table 9 lists such organizations." - Marion Nestle, Food Politics (Get the book.)

"In 2000, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) had had enough and filed a petition with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requesting an immediate investigation into the health claims of the milk mustache ads. pcrm asked the FTC to investigate whether the National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Board and the Milk Industry Foundation had been disseminating scientifically unsubstantiated, purposefully deceptive, and harmful advertising." - John Robbins, Food Revolution: How your diet can help save your life and our world (Get the book.)

"Doctors against junk-food: http://www.pcrm.org To fight pesticide use: ECO PRAXIS: Research and Resources Center. 905-465-0667 or epi@web.net On fluoride: www.fluoride.org for an information package to fight your local municipality with www.hans.org or call 604-435-0512 Autism-Causes Known and Preventable Possible Cures Vitality Magazine May 2003 Some thirty years ago we had a foster child who was profoundly autistic. She came to us on an emergency basis from an orphanage in India. Her body was covered in scars that had been made by cigarettes." - Helke Ferrie, Dispatches From the War Zone of Environmental Health (Get the book.)

"Founded in 1985, pcrm is a nonprofit organization supported by over 5,000 physicians and 100,000 laypersons. pcrm programs combine the efforts of medical experts and grassroots individuals to promote preventive medicine through research programs, reforms of federal nutrition policies, and the advocacy of higher ethics and effectiveness in the use and research of drugs, synthetic hormones, and other mainstream medical approaches. Recommended Reading Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs. Stephen M. Fried. New York: Bantam Doubleday, 1999." - Larry Trivieri, Jr., Alternative Medicine the Definitive Guide, Second Edition (Get the book.)

"The Washington, DC—based Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) sued the USDA, late in 1999, charging that these meat, dairy, and egg interests would influence nutrition policy, and they won. pcrm cited, for example, that the guidelines promote dairy product consumption as a means of preventing osteoporosis—even though studies have shown that eating dairy products doesn't reduce the incidence of that disease. The lawsuit was, unfortunately, won too late to revise the current guidelines. In the future, though, the USDA will have to publicize the advisory committee selection." - Earl Mindell and Hester Mundis, Dr. Earl Mindell's Unsafe at Any Meal: How to Avoid Hidden Toxins in Your Food (Get the book.)

"Late in 1998, pcrm filed a federal lawsuit based on this and one other charge: 6 of the 11 members of the Guidelines committee had significant ties to the meat, dairy, or egg industries. pcrm charged that these members—all university-based academics—had received research grants from, lectured to, consulted for, published with, or served on boards of the organizations with commercial interests in specific guidelines and what was said about them. Table 9 lists such organizations." - Marion Nestle, Food Politics (Get the book.)

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