Keep fighting the good fight

…at every turn, fight the corporation. Fight the corporations that control health care, your health care. Fight the corporations that control the wars. Fight the corporations that control your food and what is in it. Fight the corporations that own your politicians and Congress. Fight. Fight the corporations that advertise to your kids and you [...]

More Proof that the FDA Is a Tool of Big Corporations

By JULIE SCELFO of the New York Times
Published: December 23, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/24/dining/24chem.html
 
WEEKS after its own advisory board accused the Food and Drug Administration of failing to adequately consider research about the dangers of bisphenol-A, found in many plastic baby bottles, plastic food containers and metal can linings, the agency has agreed to reconsider the issue.
The F.D.A.’s draft risk assessment [...]

Childhood Obesity: Advertising Is Part of the Problem

From Dr. Mercola at
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/12/13/simple-change-could-reduce-obesity-in-u-s-by-20-percent.aspx
According to a new study, a ban on fast food advertisements in the United States could reduce the number of overweight children by as much as 18 percent. In addition, the study reports that eliminating the tax deductibility of television advertising would also result in a reduction of childhood obesity.
The study’s authors [...]

Nutrition Claims for Many Children’s Foods Are Misleading

Thursday, December 04, 2008 by: David Gutierrez, staff writer of Natural News
http://www.naturalnews.com/025000.html
 
 
(NaturalNews) Most of the food products made specifically for children are unhealthy and non-nutritious, even though the majority claim to provide some health benefit, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Calgary, Canada, and published in the journal Obesity Reviews.
The [...]