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 Despite increasing rates of obesity in children and teens, the Senate hasn't held a hearing on the sale of junk foods in schools since 2003.
"Though many states and local school districts are undertaking heroic efforts to improve the nutritional quality of foods sold in schools, the junk-food industry fights those efforts tooth and nail," said CSPI nutrition policy director Margo G. Wootan.
"The industry likes to say school foods should be subject to local controls," said Wootan, "yet it strikes back at the efforts of parents and health professionals when they try to act locally. |
| REPPED: The Senate Agriculture Committee recently held a hearing on school nutrition that has inspired the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) to keep driving toward national action that will help get junk food out of the public school system. Congress could move this year to restrict junk food sales in public schools, while lawmakers search for a way to conquer the national epidemic of obesity. |
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 Adams is the author of the "Declaration of Journalistic Independence" and donates his writing efforts to an online news network that accepts no money from food, supplement or health companies, making it one of the few health news sources that doesn't suffer from conflicts of interests when it comes to covering junk food.
"With this action," Adams says, "Michael F. Jacobson once again demonstrates he is a true champion of consumer health, and that he will not be intimidated by the deep pockets of junk food manufacturers who continue to exploit the health of children for corporate profits. |
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| Congress could move this year to restrict junk food sales in public schools, while lawmakers search for a way to conquer the national epidemic of obesity.
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What you need to know - Conventional View
The Child Nutrition Promotion and School Lunch Protection Act calls on the USDA to update what CSPI says are "disco-era nutrition standards" for school foods (e.g., vending machines, school stores, and a la carte in the cafeteria). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Researchers found while children of all ages are bombarded with promotions for fast food, junk food and soda, 8- to 12-year-olds see the most food advertisements. This market, the "tweens," is especially important to advertisers because it encompasses the ages at which youngsters typically begin to make some of their own buying decisions.
According to Linn, "We know that marketing is a factor in the childhood obesity epidemic. It is unconscionable that 8-12-year-olds see, on average, more than 7,600 food commercials a year -- the vast majority for candy, snacks, cereals, and fast food. |
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| The fact that food companies are allowed to market sugary, nutritionally-depleted junk foods to children has been described by Adams as causing, "...irreversible damage to the future of our nation and its citizens." junk foods cause nutritional deficiencies which lead to chronic diseases and behavioral disorders, explains Adams. "That our federal regulators, both the FDA and FTC, continue to allow these harmful foods to be aggressively marketed to children is both unconscionable and unacceptable," Adams adds. |
| Adams is the author of the "Declaration of Journalistic Independence" and donates his writing efforts to an online news network that accepts no money from food, supplement or health companies, making it one of the few health news sources that doesn't suffer from conflicts of interests when it comes to covering junk food.
"With this action," Adams says, "Michael F. Jacobson once again demonstrates he is a true champion of consumer health, and that he will not be intimidated by the deep pockets of junk food manufacturers who continue to exploit the health of children for corporate profits. |
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| REPPED: In the wake of findings that food is the most-advertised product on television programming viewed by children, the Boston-based Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC) recently issued a statement calling for "policies that will protect children from junk food marketers."
CCFC's Dr. Susan Linn made the statement in response to the Kaiser Family Foundation's report, "Food for Thought: Television Food Advertising to Children in the United States. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The whole point of this exercise in junk science, lousy reporting and astonishing nutritional ignorance is to get more women to take more drugs. It's really as simple as that.
In order to accomplish that, they have to get the medical researchers, the mainstream media and members of the public to all play along and pretend that vitamin D has nothing to do with these diseases. They also have to get everybody to pretend that antidepressant drugs are a treatment for osteoporosis -- an idea that's utter nonsense and, in fact, may be the exact opposite of what's really true. |
| And to think: This is the junk science that gets published in mainstream, peer-reviewed medical journals! Incredible...
If you want to hear more of my thoughts about how incredibly stupid medical researchers have become today, listen to my Health Ranger Report audio podcast: http://www.NewsTarget.com/Podcasts/HRR009_56.MP3 (lo-fi MP3 format, 56kbps)
The problems with modern medicine and the mainstream media
This reporting about the link between depression and osteoporosis brings up several important concerns:
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Although I'm not a big fan of increasing taxes or using taxes for social reform, it is true that taxing junk foods would make them less affordable to most citizens and might cause some people to choose alternative sources of food such as healthy snack foods. In other words, if we made unhealthy snack foods the same price as healthy snack foods by taxing the junk foods, people would have a more balanced choice of what they want to eat.
Another proposal that I especially like is requiring warning labels on foods similar to the warning labels now posted on cigarette packaging. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Find ways to make the right health decisions from this day forward -- decisions based on nature, not the junk science promoted by Big Pharma, the FDA and conventional medicine. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This study was poorly designed, poor followed, and ultimately comes up as junk science. Yet it's being touted by pharmaceutical-funded newspapers and media outlets around the world as an "A-ha!" moment, proving that calcium supplements and vitamin D supplements are useless. Faced with this information, what should consumers do now? Take more drugs, no doubt. Drugs which, by the way, are typically only "proven" through the construction of carefully distorted, selective studies that exaggerate their benefits and minimize their risks. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| John, you claim that these ambulance chasers and their clients use "junk" science to blame doctors, hospitals, and pharmaceuticals for unmerited legal redress. Get real, John. Who do you think invented "junk" science? The pharmaceutical corporations! They use junk science, new science, ghostwritten science, and Madison Avenue science to promote their agenda of corporate profitability. Go ask your corporate advertisers why maintenance drugs are more important than a cure. Ask them why they spend more on advertising than they do on research and development. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| We should also ban junk foods and fast foods at schools and hospitals. I think it's crazy that some schools have fast food chains right in the cafeteria where children can buy disease-promoting foods for lunch. It is just as crazy that our hospitals, which are supposed to be institutions of health and healing, also serve the same junk foods. There are actually hospitals with McDonald’s restaurants inside the hospital!
Were people out of their minds when they allowed these restaurant chains into our schools and hospitals? |
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| Jacobson once again demonstrates he is a true champion of consumer health, and that he will not be intimidated by the deep pockets of junk food manufacturers who continue to exploit the health of children for corporate profits."
In his announcement of the challenge to Kellogg Co., Jacobson explains, "Nickelodeon and Kellogg engage in business practices that literally sicken our children. Their marketing tactics are designed to convince kids that everything they hear from their parents about food is wrong. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If you're going to eat junk food, you're going to get junk-food minds, junk-food people and junk-food children, and you're going to pay that price. If you go organic, you're going to get people who live organically, think organically and have a long-range view of things. See, that it's, as they call it, seven generations. You have to have a seven-generation view, and that's what makes the difference.
You know, we're very open. There's a book called Culture Creatives; I don't know if you've heard of it. |
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| Junk foods cause nutritional deficiencies which lead to chronic diseases and behavioral disorders, explains Adams. "That our federal regulators, both the FDA and FTC, continue to allow these harmful foods to be aggressively marketed to children is both unconscionable and unacceptable," Adams adds. "No nation should allow its children to be harmed simply to appease the private sector."
Adams is also on the record accusing the FDA and even many media organizations of "selling out" to the financial and political influence of food companies. |
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| It is just as crazy that our hospitals, which are supposed to be institutions of health and healing, also serve the same junk foods. There are actually hospitals with McDonald’s restaurants inside the hospital!
Were people out of their minds when they allowed these restaurant chains into our schools and hospitals? Were they willing to give up any sense of ethics in exchange for royalties on the sales of such products? Clearly somebody lost their minds when they allowed these junk food chains to enter our public schools and hospitals. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 A series of new research is beginning to demonstrate that the previous assumption that so-called junk DNA is junk—was bunk. It turns out that the massive volume of genetic information in this portion of our genome may play a critical role in evolution. As its importance has been reevaluated, the respect it gets from the scientific community has begun to change; the standard term for this genetic material has even been upgraded—from junk DNA to noncoding DNA, which means it isn't directly responsible for making proteins. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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 Globally, fast food, junk food, and sugary sodas and other drinks are increasingly accessible. These affordable, convenient sources of calories are being gobbled down in place of nutritious, traditional ethnic fare, and the result is weight gain . . . and ever-rising rates of type 2 diabetes.
Junk food accounts for 90 percent of diabetes diagnoses, affecting some 177 million people worldwide. Obesity, where body weight is 30 percent or more beyond ideal, is a major risk factor for diabetes. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Stop junk food and soda advertising to children
Here's sort of another obvious one: outlaw the predatory marketing of junk foods, candy and sugary beverages to children, many of whom are already headed for a life of diabetes, heart disease and obesity. But wait: the soda companies say sugary drinks have nothing to do with obesity! And, better yet, the American Diabetes Association claims there's no link between sugar and diabetes! (Not sure how they can still say that one with a straight face, but they somehow manage it. |
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 Stop killing the hospital patients with junk food
There's a heart surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic who has taken a stand and said, "We want McDonalds out of this clinic. We want these junk food and fast food restaurants out." But the staff there is against him. They say, "We want our junk food. We want our diabetes-promoting, heart disease-promoting, cancer-causing foods. It's our choice." They want this stuff. Gosh, I hate to say it, but have you ever been in a hospital and looked at the health of the nursing staff? I used to volunteer in a nursing home. I have seen it first-hand. |
Hyla Cass
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| Globally, fast food, junk food, and sugary sodas and other drinks are increasingly accessible. These affordable, convenient sources of calories are being gobbled down in place of nutritious, traditional ethnic fare, and the result is weight gain . . . and ever-rising rates of type 2 diabetes.
Junk food accounts for 90 percent of diabetes diagnoses, affecting some 177 million people worldwide. Obesity, where body weight is 30 percent or more beyond ideal, is a major risk factor for diabetes. |
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| How about this idea: For every junk food or soda ad a TV station airs, it should be required to air an educational, pro-nutrition public service ad in the same hour. That way, the advertising messages would at least be somewhat balanced out, and viewers wouldn't simply be assaulted by corporate-sponsored junk food ads all the time.
#13 End Big Pharma's FDA-enforced drug monopoly
Government regulators claim to support free trade in every area imaginable: corn, computers, software, automobiles and even steel. But when it comes to medicine, U.S. regulators feel they need to enforce a U.S. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Most of them "reward" their children with junk food, sugary sodas, candy laced with petrochemical coloring additives and refined sugars that promote obesity and diabetes. Most parents don't even make any real effort to follow nutritional discipline at home -- they simply buy whatever their children saw advertised on television, caving in to the all-powerful "nag factor" that junk food companies fully exploit when marketing to children.
As a result, human children are the least healthy youngsters of any species on the planet. |
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 Most food gifts are crap foods, made with processed meats, cheese and junk ingredients. When you give someone this superfood gift set, you'll look like a genius compared to the goofballs who bought a bunch of the same old boring junk food baskets as Christmas gifts. In fact, if you want to make your coworkers look like idiots -- and who doesn't? -- give your boss some superfoods for Christmas!)
Superfoods are especially important around the Christmas season because so many people are eating so much garbage foods that they desperately need a boost in nutrition. |
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