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• Covidien to modify Optimark labeling

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 159
  Healthcare technology firm Covidien said it will voluntarily contraindicate (more)source : www.auntminnie.com
  14 hours ago

• NYT Gives False Impression That Catholic Medal of Honor Winner Was Muslim

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 834
  Andrea Elliot’s front page article in the November 9 New York Times played up the thousands of Muslims in the U.S. military and how their “service...is more necessary and more complicated than ever before,” but gave the false impression that a Medal of Honor winner named near the end of her piece was a Muslim ...
  20 hours ago

• WalMart’s Great Value Gluten-Free Changes

  
  The Savvy Celiac — Authority: 119
  WalMart has removed some Great Value products from its gluten-free list. What surprises me the most is that they’ve nixed some of the most basic options they had…rice? Really?
  1 day ago

• FDA Cracks Down On Misleading “Smart Choices” Food Labels

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  mikelichts Flickr photostream/Creative Commons The FDA has announced plans to investigate the “Smart Choices” initiative, an industry-led nutrition labeling program, arguing that the labels may mislead the public by implying that sugary foods are healthy. I’m amazed that the “Smart Choices” label has ...
  3 days ago

• Tea Partiers Stormed Congress, But Pro-ObamaCare Activists Simply Staged a Sit-in

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 834
  Word choice can be a subtle but effective way in which the media colorfully editorialize on the news, skewing the perceptions of readers in one direction or another. Take Washington Posts Philip Rucker, who did masterful job in skewing his 19-paragaph-long page A4 story "Activists bring tea party to Capitol Hill" in ...
  4 days ago

• How a Toothpaste Package Became the Deciding Factor

  
  Strategy Stew — Authority: 110
  Do you live with one of those people that doesn’t put the toothpaste cap back on?!  My none-year-old son is that person at our house.  Thankfully he has is own bathroom, so I don’t have to live with the crusty toothpaste all over the sink on a daily basis.  I thought that having him clean [...]
  4 days ago

• Kelloggs Withdraws Immunity Claims

  
  Food Renegade — Authority: 526
  I don’t even walk down the cereal aisle at my grocery store, so I only learned of this online. Kellogg’s cereals have started carrying health claims about how they boost your children’s immunity. Sugar-laden, full of toxic refined grains, and created in a laboratory, these cereals actually argued that they could ...
  4 days ago

• UK Commission for Employment And Skills Urges Government to Provide Students with More Detailed Information

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  According to a report by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills published today, simply providing learners with “food labeling” style information about courses could free up more money for front-line learning and fund thousands more college places. By giving learners key information on things like drop-out ...
  5 days ago

• Fraudulent “Smart Choices” food labeling program crumbles as food manufacturers flee scrutiny (opinion)

  
  World Change Cafe — Authority: 117
  (NaturalNews) The fraudulent “Smart Choices” food labeling gimmick that sought to push sugary cereals as “healthy foods” is crumbling amid the pullout of Kellogg , Unilever and PepsiCo . These companies have been distancing themselves from the fraudulent labeling scam ever since the FDA announced the ...
  5 days ago

• WaPo Warns GOPs Ideological Fissures Loom, Sees No Similar Trouble For Dems

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 834
  This afternoon, the Washington Posts Web site offers readers two looks at how the Democrats and the GOP will proceed following the 2009 elections, but, surprise, surprise, the paper only forsees internecine squabbles for the GOP. "Republicans revel in wins but ideological fissures loom," the headline to Washington ...
  5 days ago

• NYT: GOP Is Ripping Itself Apart & Off-Year Elections Dont Matter (Unless Dems Win)

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 834
  The G.O.P. had two big victories yesterday in off-year elections, winning the race for governor in New Jersey and Virginia for the first time since 1997. The New York Timess coverage was dominated by three themes used to explain away the success of Republicans: The Republicans won by appearing moderate. The ...
  5 days ago

• ABCNews.com: 53% Vote on Same-sex Marriage in Maine a Narrow Victory

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 834
  President Barack Obamas 2008 popular vote victory, roughly 53% of the electorate , should be considered "narrow" in retrospect, perhaps. After all, ABC News editors consider a similar margin of victory for same-sex marriage opponents in Maine last night to be "narrow." The headline and subheader for Devin Dwyers ...
  6 days ago

• VisualSport: Visualizing Football (Soccer)

  
  Simple Complexity — Authority: 563
  A new web service, VisualSport , came to my attention today. It looks like the service is still under development, but below is the comparison between two football (soccer) players. From the About page: Welcome to VisualSport, the revolution in living sport. VisualSport has been created to help people to ...
  6 days ago

• CNNs Martin: Dems are a Big Tent, GOP Risks Fringe Status

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 834
  CNN’s Roland Martin picked up where Anderson Cooper left off on Monday’s AC360, claiming that there’s “the beginnings of a civil war” in the GOP and that Tea Party protesters “want to radicalize the right” in the party. Martin also claimed that the Democrats are more of a “big tent” than ...
  6 days ago

• MSNBCs Scarborough, Mitchell See New Litmus Test In Scozzafava Repudiation

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 834
  "A test that uses a single indicator to prompt a decision." Thats how the American  Heritage Dictionary of the English Language defines "litmus test" when its used as a political metaphor (emphasis mine).  That makes no difference to MSNBCs Andrea Mitchell and Joe Scarborough, who see a new "litmus test" for ...
  6 days ago

• CNN: Palin, Tea Party Protesters Driving Moderates Out of GOP

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 834
  On Monday’s AC360, CNN’s Anderson Cooper forwarded the media’s new talking point about the New York 23 congressional race, that “ Tea Party protesters and other conservative voices are...driving moderates out of the GOP .” Correspondent Tom Foreman continued on this note, stating that “ angry conservatives ...
  1 week ago

• CBS Hosts Discuss ‘Insurgent,’ ‘Orthodox Conservative’ in NY-23 Race

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 834
  While analyzing the off-year elections across the country on Tuesday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith asked Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer about the New York 23rd congressional race: “...this notion that an insurgent conservative, orthodox conservative, would come in and really unseat the party’s ...
  1 week ago

• CNNs Crowley: NY 23s Hoffman the Choice of Tea Bag Partyers?

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 834
  CNN’s Candy Crowley made an oblique reference to her colleague Anderson Cooper’s infamous “teabagger” remark on Monday’s Situation Room. As she reported on the race in New York’s 23rd congressional district, Crowley referred to Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman as “ the choice of many on the ...
  1 week ago

• So, Do Calorie Counts On Menus Help People Make Better Choices? Or Not? [Fast Food]

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 777
  There have been two recent studies concerning NYCs menu labeling law. One said that the posted calorie counts had no effect — and the other disagrees. So, who is right? Turns out they both may be. The first study concentrated on low-income neighborhoods where obesity is a real problem — but where the customers ...
  1 week ago

• How Posted Calories Affect Food Orders

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  One study said an effort had no effect on residents in poor neighborhoods, while another saw modest changes citywide.
  1 week ago

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