
Are Aluminum Pots, Bottles, and Foil Safe?
DNA damage is assessed in users of aluminum cookware.
DNA damage is assessed in users of aluminum cookware.
Implausible explanations for the obesity epidemic, such as sedentary lifestyles or lack of self-discipline, serve the needs of the manufacturers and marketers more than the public’s health and the interest in truth.
How the power of the “eat more” food environment can overcome our conscious controls.
The unprecedented rise in the power, scope, and sophistication of food marketing starting around 1980 aligns well with the blastoff slope of the obesity epidemic.
The common explanations for the cause of the obesity epidemic put forward by the food industry and policymakers, such as inactivity or a lack of willpower, are not only wrong, but actively harmful fallacies.
Plastering front-of-package nutrient claims on cereal boxes is an attempt to distract from the incongruity of feeding our children multicolored marshmallows for breakfast.
Public health authorities continue to drop the upper tolerable limit of daily added sugar intake.
Is the link between breakfast skipping and obesity cause-and-effect?
The industry’s response to the charge that breakfast cereals are too sugary.
The sugar industry’s response to evidence implicating sweeteners in the obesity epidemic.