Feature articles on junk food: | 1/28/2009 - (NaturalNews) The scene is comic: Bob Greene sitting next to Oprah on her TV show, kicking off the New Year, as Oprah tries to explain to her viewing audience why she gained forty pounds – again. Not once did she turn to Greene and say, "Bob, I guess...
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| 12/15/2008 - (NaturalNews) An important action step that parents can take to counter the media marketing of unhealthy foods directed towards children is to make your voices heard directly to the people in charge of making the media marketing decisions.
The Center...
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 | 11/4/2008 - (NaturalNews) I'm thrilled to bring you this announcement today: We've collected donations from a few health supplement companies and combined them with some early earnings from our involvement with Moxxor to create a $5,000 nutritional grant fund. The...
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 | 9/22/2008 - (NaturalNews) As parents, we're our children's first line of defense against an array of negative influences. Constant barrages of unsavory images promoting foods of little or no nutritious value are common place. The sky rains with products of expediency...
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 | 9/4/2008 - (NaturalNews) The following is a transcript of a broadcast of The Health Ranger Show. You can find the downloadable audio of this program here: http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Podcasts.html
What is the biggest myth about nutritional supplements?...
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 | 8/28/2008 - (NaturalNews) The Toronto board of health has urged the Canadian government to place a total ban on the advertising of junk foods to children.
Currently, advertising to children is regulated by self-imposed rules under which 16 food companies have...
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 | 8/21/2008 - (NaturalNews) In previous articles here on NaturalNews, I've criticized Olympian Michael Phelps for promoting McDonald's fast food and sugary breakfast cereals to children. I've also reported on Phelps' atrocious diet of processed foods and the astonishing...
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 | 8/21/2008 - (NaturalNews) On the heels of Olympian Michael Phelps' deal with Kellogg's to promote sugary breakfast cereals -- a move for which he was widely criticized -- NaturalNews has learned that Phelps is also involved in a deal with McDonald's to introduce...
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 | 8/2/2008 - (NaturalNews) A new and more stringent ban on advertising junk food to children has come into effect in the United Kingdom, but many health advocates are saying the new measures do not go far enough.
In April 2007, the British government banned the...
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 | 7/3/2008 - (NaturalNews) The following is a transcript of Health Ranger Report #16, entitled The Politics of National Health Care Reform, which is available free of charge as an MP3 download at: http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Podcasts.html
Have you ever wondered...
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 | 2/21/2008 - (NaturalNews) The Consumers International Congress (CI) was held in Sydney at the end of October with the theme 'holding corporations to account'. Two areas of the Congress that attracted media attention were 'Obesity and Food Marketing', and 'The Ethics...
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 | 2/19/2008 - (NaturalNews) Monday, January 7th, 2008 marked the beginning of an era of healthy eating for high school students in Quebec, Canada. The provincial government in Quebec implemented new food regulations that prohibit high school students from having access...
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 | 2/4/2008 - (NaturalNews) While New York Giants' quarterback Eli Manning achieved an astonishing success in leading his team to a 17-14 Superbowl win over the New England Patriots, he has so far positioned himself as a junk food peddler off the field by agreeing...
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 | 1/29/2008 - (NaturalNews) Just in time for the Superbowl, NaturalNews.com has launched a "Super Food Bowl" animation featuring Superfoods' quarterback Tom Blueberry battling it out against Junk Foods running back "Big Mac." It's a five-minute animation that shows...
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 | 1/17/2008 - (NaturalNews) Back in early 2007, I was invited to participate in a pioneering new documentary that dared to explore the harmful effects of processed foods and soft drinks on teenagers. I flew to Los Angeles, spent two hours being interviewed on camera,...
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 | 10/9/2007 - (NaturalNews) Many of the television commercials seen by teenagers are for junk food products. According to research released this week by the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, this may be a major reason obesity rates continue to rise among 12-17...
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 | 6/14/2007 - 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...
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 | 4/6/2007 - Humans are the only species on the planet who actually go out of their way to feed their children crap. All other animals instinctly seek out the best nutrition they can find. Birds find grubs, worms and insects to feed their young, honeybees painstakingly...
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 | 3/30/2007 - An alliance of major food corporations, entertainment companies, advertisers and the FCC has created a task force to combat childhood obesity. The task force, which calls itself "Media and Childhood Obesity: Today and Tomorrow," held its inaugural meeting...
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 | 2/15/2007 - All of a sudden, everyone's talking about health care reform in the United States. From corporations like Wal-Mart to the newly-elected Democratic majority in the House, it seems that everyone -- business, government and the public -- recognizes our...
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 | 1/29/2007 - (NaturalNews) With a new technology involving caffeine being researched, bakeries might be adding more than just sugar and spice to pastries.
Leading the charge is Robert Bohannon, who invented a patent-pending method to encapsulate caffeine into baked...
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 | 1/17/2007 - (NaturalNews) Cadbury-Schweppes announced last week that it would stop marketing its lemon-lime 7UP soda -- which contains high-fructose corn syrup -- as "All Natural," after consumer watchdog Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) threatened...
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 | 1/16/2007 - (NaturalNews) Acrylamides -- a cancer-causing agent created when foods or fried or grilled -- is beginning to concern consumers. However, those concerned hard having a hard time getting a handle on the problem.
Consumers are finding it impossible to...
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 | 1/12/2007 - (NaturalNews) A Florida resident, backed by consumer group Center For Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), recently filed a lawsuit against Kraft Foods for marketing its Capri Sun fruit drink as "all natural" despite the presence of high-fructose corn...
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 | 12/12/2006 - (NaturalNews) The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) said Monday that Congress should pass legislation prohibiting junk food commercials on TV shows aimed at children, and pediatricians should support a ban or severe restrictions on unhealthy food ads...
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 | 11/29/2006 - (NaturalNews) A new report by UK consumer group Which? charges junk food manufacturers with engaging in "underhand" marketing techniques aimed at selling high-sugar, fattening foods to young children.
Which? researchers kept track of the marketing...
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 | 11/27/2006 - (NaturalNews) The American Diabetes Association (ADA) recently rewrote its guidelines on accepting corporate sponsorships from companies that sell unhealthy foods in an effort to appear unbiased, but critics say the charity group's willingness to take...
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 | 10/25/2006 - (NaturalNews) The Federal Trade Commission has announced that it may soon require food and beverage manufacturers to release detailed information on their expenditures for marketing to children and adolescents.
Before the demand can be made of firms,...
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 | 10/19/2006 - (NaturalNews) According to a new study published by researcher AC Nielsen, many Americans know that poor nutritional choices lead to increased weight -- and even obesity -- but continue to eat these foods anyway.
With standard nutrition labels as the...
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 | 10/10/2006 - (NaturalNews) Eating junk food during pregnancy may raise the chance of having obese children who are more susceptible to diabetes, according to a Royal Veterinary College, London study.
Researchers at RVC fed female rats doughnuts, muffins, chocolate,...
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 | 10/9/2006 - (NaturalNews) Although the rising level of childhood obesity in the United States has spurred many schools to ban junk food from their cafeterias and vending machines from their halls, thousands of schools still supply unhealthy fare to their students....
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