Santa Clara County Considering Limits on Fast Food Marketing to Children
That sounds like a good thing, doesn’t it? And maybe it is… but I have some real mixed feelings about it, nonetheless. According to Nation’s Restaurant News… SAN JOSE, Calif. (March 26, 2010) The Santa Clara County board of supervisors will begin to research the feasibility of creating a law aimed at battling childhood obesity by limiting the use of toys, digital games and other incentives in the marketing...
I’m Speechless…
NJ Woman Attempting to Become World’s Fattest Lady Dream big! A New Jersey woman, who now tips the scales at 604 pounds, said it’d be a “fantasy” to gobble her way to fame and someday weigh 1,000 pounds. “When you have a 3-year-old daughter and you’re trying to run a household, things like this tend to be a fantasy,” Simpson told The Post today. The 42-year-old Old Bridge resident insists she has no...
Move Over, Alli?
According to new research, alginate – a viscous fiber extracted from seaweed – reduces fat absorption. Seaweed to tackle rising tide of obesity Seaweed could hold the key to tackling obesity after it was found it reduces fat uptake by more than 75 per cent, new research has shown. Now the team at Newcastle University are adding seaweed fibre to bread to see if they can develop foods that help you lose weight while you eat...
More Baby Steps…
Yesterday, I noted PepsiCo’s pledge to eliminate sales of sugary soft drinks in primary and secondary schools across the world by 2012. Today, yet another mega-food conglomerate stepped up to the plate… sorta. Kraft Foods Plans to Reduce Sodium in North American Products an Average of 10 Percent by 2012 More Than 10 Million Pounds of Salt to be Eliminated NORTHFIELD, Ill., March 17, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ —...
PepsiCo. Does the Right Thing
PepsiCo. is pledging to eliminate all sales of “full sugar soft drinks” to primary and secondary schools worldwide by 2012. PURCHASE, N.Y., March 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) announced today it is voluntarily adopting a new global policy to stop sales of full-sugar soft drinks to primary and secondary schools by 2012. The industry-leading policy establishes for the first time a consistent global...
Small Angry People II
I have to admit, I was tempted to call this post “B***h Right 4 Your Type,” in honor of the review (”Eat Right 4 Your Type“) – and subsequent comment by “Elizabeth Victoria” – that inspired it. But since I already have a post titled “Small, Angry People,” I figured I’d turn this one into a sequel. It’s not as clevah, perhaps, but the shoe (definitely) fits. So what’s the deal? Here’s the background: Like most sensible...
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