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."
You also never see them driving cars, wearing clothes, inventing, writing, or debating. Because animals don't do it is not a reason not to do it. It's a personal choice.
WONDERFUL nothingnew!! I love it!!
I am diabetic, and should be very careful what I eat and drink...but if I can't enjoy my food and drink, what is the use of living?
I didn't read the article. But not everything a group puts out isn't true. Else the sheeple willnot follow. I have done my own research.
The Ph Mircle, by Dr. Robert Young
I'm not a retard! I don't support regulating, only informing. Are you anti-informing the public to health risks?
Milk is bad for you even if you want ot believe it is not. It is not about being allergic to milk, it is about what milk does to you once it is in your system. We are the "ONLY" animal that still drinks milk after being weened, and the only animal that drinks milk of another animal. It is not about animals rights.
Read; "The Ph Mircle", by Dr R. Young
I can understand how you would feel that way since it gives you problems. You are willing to believe every negative thing you read about milk. I don't think milk is necessary for good health & I recognize that there are negative things about drinking milk, but I do think the good outweighs the bad for most of us. Don't tell me to stop drinking milk & I won't tell you to stop eating corn or chocolate or anyone of the other things that I am allergic to.
Are you a moron? I said nothing about "you" should do anything, I only stated what I have learned about milk.
And what I expressed is not my "feelings" about milk, but the research of people I respect, not PETA. I do not care what you drink.
So why you would write to say to me "Don't tell me to..."
Research shows that the growth hormones in milk and cattle and chickens is the cause of young girls developing at 9 - 10 years old. So we have little girls looking like little woman.
Research also shows that they load up these animals with antibiotics, which has the effect of making it so people need higher doses and stronger antibiotics to get well.
You are new at FR so apparently you don't realize we are to refrain from making personal attacks. Calling me a moron is against the rules & it makes you look bad. BTW you are telling EVERYONE that they should not drink milk, not just me.
I am sorry, but please do not make statements to me that I told you to not do something. That is an attack on me. I believe that I stated why I don't drink milk and why it is bad, I didn't tell anyone to not drink milk.
Because I write why I think Kerry is unfit to be president am I to infer that i am telling everyone they are not fit to be president?
How you experience what I write is not in the purview of my control.
Greens contain a lot of calicum
I looked thru the list of my postings on this topic and not once did I tell anyone to not drink milk or soda.
True.
Although I never see them drinking beer, wine, soda, fruit juice, etc.
I guess the other species aren't doing very well financially.
I am really tired of this conversation. You have posted info from anti-milk groups that tell us that we should not be drinking milk. What else are we supposed to think that you are saying?
Of course not.
But I'm also for keeping the information realistic. To compare soft drinks to battery acid is an absurd overreach.
Where in OK are you from?
If you put a chicken bone is a soft drink and close the top it will desolve in a couple of days.
If your battery on you r car or motorcycle is dead and you look inside and it is very low on water and the car won't start. You can put Coke, Genger Ale or Pepsi into the battery and the car will start and the battery will last for some time, as in weeks.
Our stomachs produce HCL, much worse than anything the soft drinks have in them.
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