Friday, November 13, 2015

Is the Center for Consumer Freedom no longer working on soda?

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The Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) is a classic industry-funded front group, secretive about its funding sources and utterly mercenary in...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Marion Nestle's Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda (and Winning)

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Marion Nestle's new book is Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda (and Winning) ( Oxford University Press , 2015). The book is thorough...
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Monday, November 09, 2015

Faculty searches at Tufts in (a) food industry marketing and management and (b) food policy implementation and evaluation

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The Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University in Boston is hiring at the associate professor and full professor le...
Tuesday, November 03, 2015

Not yet resurrecting Malthus

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In Health Affairs this week, I review The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World  (W. W. Norton, 2015), by agronomist and journali...
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Saturday, October 31, 2015

Nanotechnology will revolutionize the food system (and other familiar sentences)

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There appears to be a large literature using the same words to say that "nanotechnology" is an "enabling" technology tha...
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Friday, October 30, 2015

Neurosurgeon and presidential candidate Ben Carson is asked about his endorsement of dubious Mannatech supplement company

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Presidential candidate Ben Carson was asked during debate this week about his ties to Mannatech, maker of a dubious nutrition supplement ba...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Yelp experiments with warning labels for restaurants that have low health inspection scores

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A 2014 post in this blog noted that food safety problems are fundamentally about lack of public information. If consumers had magic sungl...