Posted on 08/24/2004 3:48:46 PM PDT by Still Thinking
Washington, DC -- Attention parents and teachers! The food police have added whole and two-percent milk to the list of "poor nutritional quality" beverages in their crosshairs, recommending that they be removed from American's schools. This and other ridiculous assertions are contained in a report being circulated by the self-described "food police" at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI). The draft report, rumored to be released this month, bears the name of CSPI's activist coalition, the National Alliance for Nutrition and Activity (NANA). NANA is part of an anti-soda crusade which advocates taxing sodas and restricting their availability in order to eliminate fizzy drinks from the diets of both children and adults.
"Anyone who would suggest that milk is unhealthy for kids is out to lunch," said Richard Berman, executive director of the Center for Consumer Freedom. "CSPI once boasted that it was 'proud about finding something wrong with practically everything.' Now it's proven it."
The report concludes that school districts and local, state and federal governments should banish beverages and snacks that CSPI claims are contributing to the nation's obesity. But evidence linking childhood obesity to sodas and snacks is utterly lacking.
Suggesting a causal link between soda consumption and childhood obesity, the CSPI/NANA report relies solely on a flawed study by Harvard University researcher and "fat tax" advocate David Ludwig. Ludwig admitted in his own conclusion that, "there is no clear evidence that consumption of sugar per se ... causes obesity." The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention echoed Ludwig's conclusion: "There are no data from the Harvard study that allow us to make an estimate of what proportion of obesity might be accounted for by changes in soft drink consumption."
This is not the first time the anti-soda movement has relied on faulty science to make their case. In 1998 CSPI issued a report titled "Liquid Candy," which claimed that some teenagers get up to 25 percent of their calories from soda. Just one week later, following massive media attention, CSPI admitted that it had overstated this figure by a whopping 100 percent. In fact, American boys drink less than half the amount of soft drinks initially claimed by CSPI. While CSPI quietly made a correction (after the media fracas died down), it still heavily promotes its "Liquid Candy" report.
"NANA should rename itself NANNY," added Mr. Berman. "Nagging Americans with a finger-wagging 'no no' won't shrink anyone's waistline. This is just another attempt by CSPI's Puritans to restrict foods they don't like. And as usual, there's no science in the public interest to back them up."
Latest salvo in the age old war of farmers (read Archer Daniel Midland) against ranchers.....retaliation for the Atkins diet success!
So what the hell are you gonna drink with a double fudge brownie or a big slice of Devil's Food Cake with mocha frosting...Chablis?
FMCDH(BITS)
You'd think as paranoid as they are, they would be averse to doing so, but as long as one is a liberal, they don't seem to mind. Your food philosophy and heredity is similar to mine. Maybe we both just have good genes.
You never see other species cooking their food either. Maybe we're just different.
FMCDH(BITS)
Maybe....maybe we just have some common sense and maybe we don't want to live for 140 years. I sure don't.
FMCDH(BITS)
Well, we agree on that. I don't want you to live to be 140 either! ;-) Just kidding!
How about letting kids in elementary school have recess???
Not an organized gym class - a plain old, run around like crazy, yell, chase the other kids, run away from the other kids, swing from the monkey bars, slide down the big slide recess.
But no, we have too much to teach kids, so they have sit still for six hours. And people wonder why obesity and ADD and ADHD are so prevalent. Oops, I forgot. I'm not a member of the NEA, so I don't know anything about brainwashing, whoops, make that educating children.
Baseball free from parents, a game of scrub in the afternoon
To get strong bones do what cows do......eat grass.
We are the only animal that still drinks milk after we are weened.
Istopped drinking and all my allergies are gone.
Not to mention summer time. No more days of just having fun and goofing off. Now-a-days you're supposed to send your children to summer school to stay ahead of to a few different types of specialized camps.
No it is not Bush's fault. Milk even the type mentioned is not good for us. It creates a coating onteh intestinal walls that reduces the bodies ability to absorb what it needs and breakdown the imune system.
Read the Ph Mircle by Dr. Young.
My father was 95 on Aug 8th. Has never followed a low fat diet, whole milk, butter, bacon, eggs. Has a beer with lunch everyday and "happy hour" every afternoon at 4:30PM sharp. And sometimes has wine with dinner. We joke that he has acheived the perfect balance of fat/alcohol intake to last another 30 years or so.
Now, he does eat prunes and bran flakes every morning for breakfast and always has fruit and a sandwich on whole wheat bread for lunch. Everyday for the past 70+ years!! But, he eats very little processed foods and sugar. Personally, I think sugar is the biggest problem in the current American diet, not fat.
And his mind is sharper than mine. Everything in moderation.
I've pretty much some to the same conclusion about sugar vs. fat.
Captain Morgan would go nicely.
Weight bearing exercise is the best way to build strong bones...go with recess!
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Didn't you ever learn the color code system for matching your spirits to your desserts, similar to red meat-red wine; white meat/white wine? Captain Morgan is for drenching your yellow cake. For chocolate cake you're going to need Bailey's. (Seriously, rum drenched yellow cake is pretty good.)
Yeah, I remember getting a kiss or two around 4th grade. Big score when you get get a boy to play "house". Yes, let's not let the kids use their imaginations. Heaven forbid.
Or, they might even play army. Oh, the horror.
Yeah, I'm not an "official" educator, just a mother to four boys, who still remembers what it was like to play outside without adult interference till the street lights came on. Rode my bike without a helmet too. Gee, wonder how I made it to adulthood.
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