Sure looks that way and it’s a brilliant move for the food industry. After all there are growing calls to ban the provision of toys with junk food, but what if instead of toys, junk food came with books and the purveyors of junk claimed that it was all in the name of improving literacy?… [Continue Reading]

Blow the trumpets. Roll out the red carpet. And tell everyone how you support (insert global health initiative here). It’s happening again. Not that I’m surprised mind you…but it is a bit maddening and somewhat disappointing to see Junk Food Giants attach their name and funding to charitable organizations fighting health epidemics that the very… [Continue Reading]

In the 40’s and 50’s a University of Minnesota researcher, Ancel Keys, postulated that the apparent epidemic of heart attacks in middle-aged American men was related to their mode of life and specifically the consumption of fat. Keys is famous for two contributions to nutritional science. The first is the invention of the military field… [Continue Reading]