A 2,000-Calorie Snack? No Fudgin Way, Says Nutrition Action

April 30, 2009

b>Cold Stones Oh Fudge! is Food Porn/b>br/>WASHINGTON—If the obesity epidemic needed a stimulus package, it would look much like the 24-fl.-oz. Oh Fudge! shake from Cold Stone Creamery, which sends a 1,920-calorie deposit of chocolate ice cream, milk, and fudge syrup into the bellies of those willing to pay $5.50 or more. To withdraw that from your daily calorie bank, youd have to spend more than four hours on the step machine or nearly seven hours doing water aerobics. In other words, its Food Porn. The gory details are published in the May issue of Nutrition Action Healthletter, published by the Washington-based watchdog group, the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

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Momentum Grows for Push to Expel Junk Food from Schools

April 29, 2009

b>/b>br/>WASHINGTON—Foods sold in schools will get a long-overdue nutritional makeover if legislation introduced today by Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) gets wrapped into this years updates to the child nutrition programs, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest. The group says that the pizza, sodas, so-called energy drinks, chips, and candy abundantly available in schools are helping to fuel an epidemic of child obesity and diabetes.

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Pilot Study Finds Inexpensive Drug Appears To Relieve Fibromyalgia Pain

April 20, 2009

For Tara Campbell, the onset of her fibromyalgia began slowly with repeated sore throats, fevers and fatigue. By the time she was diagnosed, a year later, she had become so debilitated by flulike symptoms and exhaustion that she often couldn’t get off the couch all day. “Fall, a year ago, I hit my very, very worst,” said Campbell, 39, of Walnut Creek, Calif. “I felt overall pain to the point that even when my children or husband just touched me it hurt.

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Federal Trade Commission Stops Kellogg from Claiming Frosted Mini-Wheats Improve Kids Attentiveness in School

April 19, 2009

b>Statement of CSPI Legal Affairs Director Bruce Silverglade/b>br/>The astonishing claims made by Kellogg that its Frosted Mini-Wheats improved childrens attentiveness by 20 percent were laughable on their face and never should have surfaced in an advertising campaign by a major food manufacturer.

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Are 2 Chinese Therapies Better than 1?

April 14, 2009

For thousands of years, qigong, a form meditative movement, has been part of Chinese medicine. John Alton teaches a form of qigong and says it produces a calming feeling in people studying it.

"The distinguishing characteristics are a specialized form of abdominal breathing, slow movement, and what I call sensory meditation," says Alton.

Now doctors at UVA are investigating how qigong along with acupuncture, another traditional Chinese therapy, may give breast cancer patients more energy as they receive treatments.

Read the complete article by Claire O’Brien…

Keywords: qigong, acupuncture, chinese medicine, breast cancer

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Pistachio Recall Shows FDA Needs to Shift from Voluntary Guidance to Food Safety Mandates for the Nut Industry

April 7, 2009

b>Statement of CSPI Food Safety Director Caroline Smith DeWaal/b>br/>The latest recall of a popular nut—pistachios—is expanding to include all nuts processed by Setton Farms in 2008. This recall, coming on the heels of a peanut recall affecting over 2,000 products, is another blow to farmers, nut processors, and consumer confidence. It proves the Food and Drug Administration urgently needs to institute mandatory process controls for all tree nuts and peanuts. The FDA should immediately require processors to institute process controls that would ensure safe product.

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NCAA Could Survive Without Beer Ads, Data Shows

April 2, 2009

b>Campaign for Alcohol-Free Sports TV Urges NCAA to Eliminate Beer Ads/b>br/>WASHINGTON—Beer advertising during NCAA basketball games is big, but not so big that the league couldnt replace most of it with ads for products that dont contribute to alcohol problems on campus and elsewhere. Increasingly, thats the message being sent to NCAA officials by its own member schools, coaches, and athletic directors, as well as the Campaign for Alcohol-Free Sports TV.

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