Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Michael Jacobson of the center for science in the public interest believes that the HFCS discussion is confusing people. "It's unfortunate that some consumers have been distracted by false concerns about HFCS and lost sight of the fact that we're consuming far too much sugar in the form of both HFCS and table sugar (sucrose). We should be consuming a lot less of both."
But those familiar with the corn refining process heatedly disagree and claim that arguments such as those cited above are based on inaccurate information. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 In a recent editorial for Nutrition Action Health Letter, a publication of the center for science in the public interest, Michael Jacobsen named the major officeholders in the USDA and described what each had done for a living before going to work for the Department of Agriculture.4 Every single one had previously been employed by the dairy, meat, or poultry industry. And as recently as October 2000, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine successfully litigated to find out exactly who was compensating the members of the USDA's U.S. Dietary Guidelines Committee. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| In 1998, the center for science in the public interest (CSPI) published a report called Liquid Candy. This report states, "Companies annually produce enough soda to provide 557 12-ounce cans ... to every man, woman, and child ... Carbonated drinks are the single biggest source of refined sugars in the American diet... providing the average 12- to 19-year-old boy with about 15 teaspoons of refined sugars a day."36 Keep in mind that's just an average from nearly ten years ago. Today, a 12-ounce soft drink or "energy drink" often contains 8 or more teaspoons of sugar in a single can! |
| How Does Table Salt Cause a Toxic Colon?
The center for science in the public interest, a nutritional lobbying group, claims that sodium chloride (common table salt) could be "... the single deadliest ingredient in the food supply."29 The CSPI has recommended to the FDA to change the status of salt from "generally recognized as safe" (which leaves it essentially unregulated), to "food additive" since this would give the FDA more authority to regulate its use in foods.
The idea of regulating table salt may sound ridiculous at first but it's actually a great idea. |
| Caffeine's addictiveness, in fact, may be one reason why six of the seven most popular soft drinks contain caffeine," reports the center for science in the public interest.47 It's easy to become hooked if you're exposed to caffeinated beverages early on. With the addition of soft drink machines in elementary and junior high schools, and coffee shops on every corner, we are creating a nation of people that are physiologically dependent on this addictive toxin.
Drinking caffeinated beverages can dehydrate the body and interfere with digestion. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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 There may never have been additional discussion of the FDA's panel of experts except for the work done by The center for science in the public interest. That organization had been keeping a list of scientists whom they identified as receiving financial contributions from drug manufacturers. During the fourth week of February, they released their findings to the New York Times?1 The center for science in the public interest did not have records for all the members of the panel, but they had enough information to reveal why the committee voted in favor of the drugs. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The Ajinomoto company was reportedly not allowed to actually choose which panel members would be part of the aspartame safety review, but industry critics like Michael Jacobson of the center for science in the public interest (CSPI), responded by saying, "They say Ajinomoto paid for the study but researchers didn't know who paid. Well, they knew it was industry. And some of these people are longstanding industry consultants."
What we have here is a case of yet more pro-aspartame propaganga being paraded around as legitimate science. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 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. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Center for Science in the Public Interest (www.CSPInet.org). I'm sure there are many more that deserve to be listed here, too. We're all part of a natural living / green living / sustainable future movement that's reshaping the world right now, through highly effective educational campaigns and grassroots organization.
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As we continue to share this journey together, I really want to thank you for giving me the opportunity to serve as your independent-minded journalist. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| Consumer and nutrition groups were outraged. The center for science in the public interest blasted the Sugar Association, calling its tactics "thug-gish" and describing its threats as blackmail rather than lobbying.
The distinguished Dr. Marion Nestle and Dr. Kelly D. Brownell, director of the Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders, wrote a scathing New York Times editorial decrying the U.S. government's reaction. |
| Then, in May 2006, the nation's three top soft drink companies, faced with threats of a lawsuit from the center for science in the public interest advocacy group, announced that they would voluntarily stop selling caloric soda and iced teas in school vending machines and cafeterias at public schools nationwide by the 2009-2010 school year.
The much-ballyhooed deal was brokered by the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a collaboration between former President Clinton's William J. Clinton Foundation and the American Heart Association. |
| Both moves raised the ire of two consumer interest groups, Commercial Alert and the center for science in the public interest.
All of these marketing tactics enrage children's advocacy groups. In fact, Linn's group, Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (formerly Stop Commercial Exploitation of Children), represents a national coalition of health-care professionals, educators, advocacy groups, and concerned parents. |
Bill Sardi
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 Clark gave the medical community what it demanded and yet his study has been virtually thrown under the bus.
The center for science in the public interest, in their Nutrition Action Letter, documented the disbelief by the medical community. [Nutrition Action Letter Jan-Feb 1997]
"From what we could see, there wasn't anything wrong with the study, "says Walter Wil-lett, who chairs the nutrition department at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Willett is troubled by how quickly cancer rates dropped in the selenium-takers. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), calls soda "liquid candy." Just check out these numbers:
In the last 50 years, soft drink consumption among people of all ages has increased a colossal 500 percent, according to the USDA.
In 1947, companies produced an average of about one hundred 12-ounce cans for every man, woman, and child in this country. By 1997, that number had soared to 575 cans per person, according to the National Soft Drink Association, which has since changed its name to the more innocuous-sounding, non-soda-oriented American Beverage Association (ABA). |
Charles Barber
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 On the occasion of the FDA's centennial in 2006, the executive director of the center for science in the public interest, Michael F. Jacobson, said, "The FDA's centennial is not so much a time to celebrate, but to mourn the FDA's gradual descent into irrelevancy . . . the great Republican president Theodore Roosevelt would be sick to his stomach if he could see how Harvey Wdey's [first FDA commissioner] hard-charging tiger of an agency became such a pliant pussycat." And Representative Henry A. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 Former EPA scientist Doug Gurian-Sherman, for example, wrote a report "Holes in the Biotech Safety Net," for the center for science in the public interest. He relied on 14 applications for GM crops presented to the FDA, which were obtained only through official Freedom of Information Act requests. William Freese, former research analyst for Friends of the Earth, also pored through industry submissions and government documents that most scientists working in the field have never seen. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Caroline Smith DeWaal, food safety director, center for science in the public interest.
Sprout Safety
Raw and undercooked sprouts can be as risky as undercooked beef and eggs. They may carry E. coli and salmonella, which can be especially dangerous for children, seniors and those who have weakened immune systems. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is developing stricter safety standards for sprouts.
Michael Doyle, PhD, professor of food microbiology, and director, Center for Food Safety, University of Georgia, Griffin.
Myth: Willpower Is the Key to Weight Loss
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David Steinman
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 Besides a newspaper article in the San Francisco Chronicle-Examiner that detailed how much the California Raisin Advisory Board voted to spend on the campaign against my book, I also belatedly learned about these plans, thanks to records of correspondence to and from the White House, that the center for science in the public interest had obtained as well as from other documents smuggled out of Ketchum's corporate offices by a conscientious whisde-blower who later sent them to me anonymously. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| Americans are constantly induced to spend a little more money to get a lot more food," says Margo Wootan, director of nutrition policy for the center for science in the public interest.
But when it comes to eating food, bigger isn't better. In fact it often means overeating.
Sure, this so-called value marketing helps food companies turn a profit, but all it does for the consumer is widen his or her waistline. |
Michele Simon
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 For example, CCF has created a Web site known as CSPIscam, whose sole purpose is to discredit and defame one of the nation's leading nutrition advocacy organizations, the center for science in the public interest (CSPI). The site insists that the nonprofit "and its founder, Michael F. Jacobson, are not as nice, sweet, and unbiased as CSPI's name might imply. The group routinely uses scare tactics justified by 'junk science' and media theatrics as part of their ceaseless campaign for government regulation of your personal food choices. |
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
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 Even the center for science in the public interest, an organization that says it wants to recommend vegan cheeses to its constituents, criticized the soy versions of Swiss, cheddar and jack cheese for being "barely distinguishable from each other" and said "none came close to even a decent store brand of cheddar, never mind havarti or Jarlsberg."31
Although often promoted as "healthful" with the phrase "no cholesterol," many brands of soy cheeses contain dangerous partially hydrogenated fats—with the highest levels in the brands that taste the best. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 To convince the public that the major danger to their health was saturated fats, the edible oil industry (primarily the soybean oil producers) and the center for science in the public interest (CSPI) led a campaign to attack the use of saturated fats and the tropical oils, such as palm oil (which is a very healthy oil).
This campaign resulted in a dramatic increase in the use of partially hydrogenated oils containing high levels of trans fatty acids. Soon, virtually every product using oils now contained these harmful trans fats. |
Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S.
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 I began diction was made in the prestigious medical journal Lancet as far back as 1994 that trans- avoiding fast-food fats would turn out to be a major factor in lunches-it's better insulin resistance ; that was the same year that for me and my kids. the center for science in the public interest ^
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July 10, 2002, the National Academy of Science's Institute of Medicine issued a report that concluded that "the only safe intake of trans-fats is zero. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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 This extended authority was applauded by the center for science in the public interest, a national food safety activist group, stating that "The Agency has done a good job with the official school lunch and could do a good job with all other foods." This endorsement may well be warranted nutritionally. However, it certainly is not warranted by the USDA's failure to disclose well-documented scientific evidence on the risks to health of the two school lunch staples, milk and meat. |
Jacky Law
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 These ten voted 9-1 in favour of Vioxx's return. The center for science in the public interest said the inclusion of these ten members violated an act which prohibits scientists with direct conflicts of interest from serving on panels offering advice to federal regulatory agencies.28 Predictable squabbles ensued over the details about who gets what for what, while everyone else was asking, Where have all the public scientists gone? Do they really no longer exist? Does everyone work for industry? |
Mike Adams
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 These quotes are reprinted from the center for science in the public interest (CSPI) website:
Sample quotes from cancer experts' letters on acesulfame-K testing
"These data do not permit an assessment that use of this compound would provide a reasonable certainty of no harm. In fact, there are indications that it might be carcinogenic. I would strongly suggest that a properly designed long term study in both mice and rats be conducted before Acesulfame K be considered for approval." - David Rail, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Surgeon General, United States Public Health Service (retired). |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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| The center for science in the public interest (CSPI) is a non-profit organization whose purpose includes ensuring that the research found in medical journals is objective and honest. In an investigation into whether or not the journals with the best "conflicts of interest" policies were adequately monitoring the admissions of private industry ties, the CSPI researchers found they were not. Even at JAMA the CSPI researchers discovered that 11% of the articles were written by authors who failed to disclose their financial conflicts of interest.5 regularly (44% attend two or more each month). |
| During the fourth week of February, they released their findings to the New York Times?1 The center for science in the public interest did not have records for all the members of the panel, but they had enough information to reveal why the committee voted in favor of the drugs.
Ten panel members had financial ties with either Pfizer (maker of Celebrex and Bextra) or Merck. Those ten experts voted 10-0 in favor of keeping Pfizer's two Cox-2 inhibitor drugs on the market and 9-1 in favor of allowing Vioxx to be made available again. |
Michele Simon
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| Consumer groups such as the center for science in the public interest (CSPI) have been trying for several years to pass new laws to fill this informational gap. After all, if gas stations have to display octane levels, why not post calories at a fast-food joint? Why should people know more about what goes into their cars than into their own bodies?
True to form, the National Restaurant Association (NRA), whose members include thousands of fast-food franchises and whose customers include untold numbers of power-lunching politicians, has fought the effort tooth and nail. |
| For example, the center for science in the public interest called it "more talk and no real help" for millions of Americans.11 Former U.S. surgeon general David Satcher said that he had "no objection to small steps," but insisted that "there also need to be big steps."12
The campaign also includes bizarre public service ads. One shows boys playing on a beach discovering a human belly and another features shoppers finding a double chin in a grocery store. |
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