Don't Hold the Pizza Just Yet

Foxnews ^ | May 24, 2002 | Steven Milloy

[ZGuy]

Anti-fun food activists at the Center for Science in the Public Interest just delivered another junk science-fueled scare.

Pizza is the new laugh-out-loud hazard, an act of dietary terrorism apparently perpetrated to sell CSPI's new anti-restaurant book.

CSPI's report, "What Pizza Delivers," alarmingly claims "pizzas are loaded with salt, sometimes over a day's worth ... pizza is a minefield of saturated fat, and not just from the sausage, ground beef and pepperoni

[ZGuy]

Follow up to Purplegirl's post of May 17 Pizza : Next Target of Food Police

[Semper Paratus]

They're crossing a line when they go after pizza!

[serinde]

bogus food scares including attacks on ... the fat-substitute Olestra ...

I agree that going after pizza is ridiculous. But what is the truth about Olestra? I have heard some really nasty things about that stuff.

[Cyber Liberty]

Aren't these the "Fettucini Alfredo is a heart attack on a plate" folks? I once told a dietician that nobody takes her work seriously because of hyperventilating crapola like this. She was furious with me, and didn't speak to me for a year.

[gitmo]

Now Anchovies, maybe I would agree with them. But that's the only part of the Pizza that's dangerous.

(Sometimes the outside crust is dietarily unacceptable, but a good Pizza Cook can avoid that.)

[gitmo]

Eating Olestra products leaves an after-effect similar to licking a tub of lard.

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Amen bro! You can take my pizza when you pry my cold dead fingers off it!

[Wolfie]

But what is the truth about Olestra?

The occurance of "anal leakage" was all I ever had to know about Olestra.

[Ancesthntr]

The modus operandi of the Center for Science in the Public Interest is to bash whatever food people like to eat. They are the modern Puritans - upset only when others are enjoying themselves.

I'll grant you that any food loaded with fat is bad for you - if that is all you eat. But any food in moderation is fine - the body does need fats, after all. Pizza has lots of protein, clearly a vital nutrient (though not the best source - you'd do better eating tunafish or egg whites. Pizza also has lots of tomato sauce, which is loaded with a vital nutrient (lycopene), the absorbtion of which is actually enhanced in the presence of fat and heat (i.e. in a cooked, fat-laden, pizza).

[razorback-bert]

And if you get extra veggies like spinach, peppers, and broccoli toppings

Gag me with a vegan, broccoli pizza.

[Gabz]

The modus operandi of the Center for Science in the Public Interest is to bash whatever food people like to eat

The rest of you comment is more on target - they like to bash ANYTHING that people enjoy.

[Virginia-American]

I'd really like to see an audit of all the Ralph Nader fronts. Who's funding these people? Why?

[lelio]

the Food and Drug Administration selected 2,000 calories as the DRV
I view everything from the FDA with skepticism as the recommended daily allowance for vitamin C is amazingly the amount that's in a single glass of orange juice. That's amazingly convienent, the FDA is too lazy to figure out how much, or the Juice Industry (tm) got to them.

[CaptRon]

If it wasn't for pizza and hot dogs I'd have been a dead man before 30.

[Hoosier Patriot]

The occurance of "anal leakage" was all I ever had to know about Olestra.

Heck, is that all? What's the big deal about a little anal leakage? Yes, it might be embarassing for awhile, but once everybody starting eating foods containing Olestra, hey, we're all in it together, right?

"Oops! Sorry about that leakage! Oh my, and on your white velvet sofa, too. I hope you'll forgive me. Say, have you got any more of these chips?"

[Mr Rogers]

She was furious with me, and didn't speak to me for a year.

Lucky you - next time try for 2!