Center for Science in the Public Interest

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• More Nutrition Label Improvements

  
  Fooducate — Authority: 514
  Yesterday we wrote about the FDA’s plan to refresh nutrition labels and made several of our own suggestions. In parallel, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), a consumer watchdog organization, published its own set of recommendations. They’ve done a great job, including some very cool ...
  2 days ago

• ‘Capitalism’ the movie calls for consumer action

  
  The Survive and Thrive Boomer Guide — Authority: 128
  Having missed the opportunity to see Michael Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story” when it briefly played at local movie theaters, I was pleased to see it’s being shown at our local alternative theater. As a consumer specialist who’s written about consumer issues for three decades, I think the movie has a ...
  1 week ago

• 80% of Nickelodeon Food Commercials are for Junk

  
  Fooducate — Authority: 514
  The most popular kids TV Network, Nickelodeon, should be ashamed of itself, says the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), a consumer watchdog group, in its latest expose. The reason: Most of the ads running on the network are for food products that promote obesity, diabetes, and other health problems in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Everybodys Fine: The White Lies We Tell Our Parents about How Lifes Going - Robert De Niros Film about Family. See the Movie - Skip the Popcorn & Candy!

  
  Happy Healthy Long Life — Authority: 114
  Everybodys Fine.  Robert De Niros New Movie Click Here if you arent seeing the trailer or youre reading this from your email Frank, the dad:  "I dont know what it is with you kids.  You always told your mother everything.  You never told me anything." Franks daughter:  "We tell you the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Food Nazi Alert

  
  Black & Right — Authority: 485
  Some people have miserable lives because of their beliefs, and if they have to eat sprouts and tofu and bland shit like that, they’ll be damned if you can eat and enjoy anything with TASTE…! On Nov. 19 ABC’s “Good Morning America” aired a recycled study by the Center for Science in the Public Interest ...
  2 weeks ago

• Report: Movie Theatre Popcorn Makes You Fat (Surprise!)

  
  Celluloid Junkie — Authority: 107
  As if theatre owners didn’t have enough to worry about with studios shrinking release windows at every opportunity, they may soon have to start worrying about moviegoers bypassing the real bread and butter of any exhibitor’s business, or more appropriately the popcorn and butter. A new study conducted by the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Movie theater popcorn gets two thumbs down from advocacy group

  
  WalletPop Blog — Authority: 696
  Filed under: Food , Consumer Ally Eating popcorn at the movies used to be fun. Now its scary, thanks to the Center for Science in the Public Interest -- the advocacy group that also has given the beat-down to Chinese food, fast food and most other things Americans love to pig out on. The group performed lab ...
  3 weeks ago

• Food Nazis strike again! Movie theater popcorn = 3 hamburgers?!?

  
  The Knight Shift — Authority: 139
  The first time I heard about Center for Science in the Public Interest it was 1994. That was also the first time these ninnies went after movie theater popcorn. They declared it wasnt safe because of the coconut oil that most cinemas pop their corn in. The very next day EVERY movie theater listing in the News & ...
  3 weeks ago

• Movie Theater Popcorn a Caloric Bomb

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 159
  A large movie theater popcorn tub packs more fat and calories than two Big Macs, according to an updated report from the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
  3 weeks ago

• Popcorn – The Good, The Bad, and The VERY BAD

  
  Fooducate — Authority: 514
  Popcorn, the quintessential snack of the movies, is a long standing tradition. The Good : it’s a healthy, low calories snack – very filling due to its fiber content, and less than 100 calories per 3 cups of air popped popcorn. The Bad : Problems start when pop corn is bathed in oils and butters and serving ...
  3 weeks ago

• CSPI: Regal Theater Popcorn Has 1,200 Calories, 60g Saturated Fat!

  
  BASIL & SPICE--NUTRITION! — Authority: 122
    ‘Two Thumbs Down’ for Movie Theater Popcorn New Lab Tests of Movie Theater Popcorn Show It’s Still the Godzilla of Snacks   WASHINGTON—It’s hard to picture someone mindlessly ingesting three McDonald’s Quarter Pounders with 12 pats of butter while watching a movie.  But according to new ...
  3 weeks ago

• 100 Researchers Ask NIH To Fund Ethics Research

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 573
  Dozens of researchers, clinicians, and ethicists sent a letter asking the NIH to fund research on medical ethics, conflicts of interest, and industry influence on prescribing behavior. Why? They note that stimulus funding has increased the NIH budget significantly, but the agency has “no mechanism for funding ...
  3 weeks ago

• Uh oh. Industry forces FDA to drop oyster safety plan

  
  Food Politics — Authority: 581
  On November 13, the FDA announced indefinite postponement of rules requiring raw oysters from the Gulf of Mexico to undergo postharvest processing to destroy their content of Vibrio vulnificus, a particularly nasty “flesh-eating” bacterium.  According to accounts in the New York Times and in industry ...
  3 weeks ago

• Baby boomers may be heavier and more disabled as they get older

  
  The Survive and Thrive Boomer Guide — Authority: 128
  Older Americans entering their 70s aren’t functioning as well as the generations that came before them, a new study shows. That may predict that baby boomers will have higher disability rates in their “golden years.” The study compared disability measurements, which assess how well an individual can ...
  3 weeks ago

• FDA Investigation of Safety & Legality of Caffeinated Alcoholic Drinks Praised by CSPI

  
  BASIL & SPICE — Authority: 130
  Statement of CSPI Alcohol Policy Director George A. Hacker   We strongly support the investigation announced today by the Food and Drug Administration into the safety and legality of caffeinated alcoholic “energy” drinks.   For many years, federal regulators have stood mutely by as these potentially ...
  3 weeks ago

• Gulf Coast Oyster Harvest Valued at $60 Million (2008)-FL Sen Fights FDA

  
  BASIL & SPICE — Authority: 130
  WASHINGTON—The Center for Science in the Public Interest was joined today by victims, consumer advocacy, and public health organizations in urging Congress to support the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) efforts to protect consumers from contaminated oysters that each year cause scores of ...
  4 weeks ago

• 2008: 57% Corn Planted In U.S. Spliced With Bt, 1 Of 4 Farmers Not Compliant

  
  BASIL & SPICE — Authority: 130
  Too Many Farmers Growing Genetically Engineered Corn Not Complying with Key Environmental Requirements CSPI Urges EPA Not to Re-Register Products Unless Compliance Improves WASHINGTON—One out of every four farmers who plants genetically engineered (GE) corn is failing to comply with at least one important ...
  5 weeks ago

• Top 10 Riskiest Foods Regulated by the FDA

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 159
  Researchers at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) announced their own grocery list of the 10 riskiest foods regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. The most hazardous, in order: leafy greens, eggs, tuna, oysters, potatoes, cheese, ice cream, tomatoes, sprouts and berries. Read more...
  6 weeks ago

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